Well, after almost a decade C & H FINALLY tied the knot! And it went down NOTHING like the bride had planned for 13 months! C was never interested in wedding stuff. In fact, H was only allowed to talk about the wedding with him on the first Sunday of every month. His only job was to show up on time and enjoy his wedding day with his groomsmen, who included his brother as the best man. H ordered sub sandwiches, drinks, had a ping pong table, and corn hole to occupy the groomsmen's time and allow them to really just relax and enjoy the wedding day. Unfortunately, they never were able to do that. The wedding day was crazy and NOTHING went like it was suppose too!
Let's start at the beginning. We arrived early in the afternoon the day before the big day. We were there to participate in the walk thru and help with whatever last minute details that were needed. We basically set up the arbor, chairs, tables, and put up decorations. In other words, we worked our butts off and had EVERYTHING EXACTLY how H wanted it. This is Texas and weather can change on a dime. However, it was 76 degrees, sunny, and beautiful. We had all been keeping an eye on the weather. A cold front was due to come through the day after the wedding and bring thunderstorms with it. Even though it had moved the rain chances up to Saturday morning, we should still be fine with our Friday night wedding. We should have plenty of time to tear down everything before it arrived on Saturday. We went to bed on Thursday tired, but happy with all our hard work.
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| We were setting up the chairs and arbor. |
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| C's only job was to relax and show up. T was willing to help him with that. |
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| H made a TON of cute signs to place around the venue. |
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| They were really cute. |
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| We even did the walk thru. |
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| The girls were in charge of lights and candles. |
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| I worked on fixing the lights in the sign. Everything was looking great. |
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| The Bride and Groom's table. |
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The table decor was really cute!
AND THEN IT ALL HAD TO COME DOWN!!! |
We woke up on Friday ready for a nice day and a fun filled evening of festivities. However, watching the news with my coffee alerted us to the fact the storm was now expected around 6pm, which gave us two hours to have the ceremony and move items that could not get wet indoors before it arrived. The bride refused to talk about a Plan B in case of rain. She was determined that the wedding she had spent so long planning would go on exactly as she planned it. She left to go for her day long of beauty and wedding preparations, leaving only her parents, C, and us as the only people to decide on anything. A long story short, the storm moved much faster than anticipated and after much back and forth, her parents and I decided it was too risky and did not want everything completely ruined for her big day and moved the ceremony about a half a mile away to a covered pavilion and brought all the tables into a cabin for the reception. H did NOT handle this well when we told her, but we had so much to do we did not have time to wait for her to come to the realization it had to move. The groomsmen, who had been taking pictures, changed clothes and her parents, C, D & I, the girls, T, and the groomsmen SCRAMBLED to take down the chairs, arbor, tables, and EVERY decor item, i.e. signs, lights, table clothes, candles, etc., and move everything to its new location, knowing full well the bride was upset. You have never seen people work so fast. We had less than 3 hours until the ceremony started! Thank goodness I have a Type A personality! When I realized how much needed to be done, my "natural leadership"-not bossiness- kicked in. I immediately told everyone what their job was, divided everything up, and hoped like hell everyone could be counted on since this was the first time I met most of these people. The oncoming storm had made it very humid and our frantic pace of tearing everything down and either loading it on the trailer to move to the ceremony or dragging it up the stairs to the cabin made us all super sweaty. Once we had everything on the trailer we had to take it to the pavilion where the guys had to move and cart off all the metal picnic tables that were there and replace them with the arbor, our chairs, and decor. C, who hadn't had ANY interest in wedding planning, all of a sudden had to ok the placement of not only the new location, but also of every chair, light, sign, candle, etc. on the fly!
With only one hour until showtime, H's mom and I left the men and the girls (A&L) with their jobs to set up and decorate the ceremony while we tackled the reception area. We moved tables and decor at lightning speed and with only 15 minutes until showtime, we had to stop to go get dressed. Thank goodness I had done my make up earlier or I would have been bare faced. It was hard enough to get my dress on since I was so sweaty. We learned that T had not brought his tie or belt with us, but thank GOD I had ordered two ties, so D would match. We gave T the extra tie, his sister lent him a belt (if you look closely it has flowers on it) and with only 5 minutes to spare we threw C in the car and dashed to the ceremony. Those of you who arrived and had no one to greet you, we are sorry! We had planned on being about 30 minutes early to the ceremony, but we were happy we made it on time at all!
In the end, we pulled it off. The bride was very happy with how things turned out and no one was any the wiser on how things played out that day! We basically tore down and rebuilt the entire thing in less than 3 hours, which caused us to only eat a cinnamon roll at 9 am and by 5 pm the girls felt really sick with stomach pains and ended up missing most of the reception. However, we did it and it was lovely! We helped take down everything again the next morning so we moved things about 3 times in total. I have never been so sore and tired, but my son is married, the wedding was wonderful, the bride was super happy with how things turned out, and no one had to get wet. Thank goodness!
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| The boys getting dressed with 10 minutes to spare. I will never know how none of them looked sweaty or disheveled for the ceremony. I know none of them had time to shower! |
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| Our new venue that we surprised the bride with. I think it looks pretty good for being constructed in under an hour. |
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| I snapped a quick pic in the parking lot on our way in before no cameras were allowed. C gave T a flask as his best man gift. T thinks it's so cool! |
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| Literally, I took this to have just one pic from the chaotic day. My hair was so sweaty! |
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| The new reception area. |
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| C loves the cowboys and pecan pie so H was thoughtful enough to include those for him. |
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| This cake was the best wedding cake I ever had! |
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| We did it! |
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| T gave an awesome best man speech! There were only 8 people from C's family and only we stayed for the reception. My parents, brother, and his wife wanted to leave before the storms got too bad. |
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| It ended up being a wonderful wedding. |
C and I danced our mother son dance to Rod Stewart's Forever Young and, of course, I did not want us just swaying back and forth while everyone watched. Not my style. So C and I performed "The Routine" from Friends (google it) and EVERYONE loved it and had a good laugh. C was such a good sport. He has off the wall anxiety, but he humored his old mom and it was a fun, silly dance. Several people commented on how they enjoyed it. It was just different than the old boring dances I guess.
****The girls now say they are NEVER having an outdoor wedding! 😂****
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