Now a "Mrs."

Alright, so I’m back from my honeymoon and life is good…..as a “Mrs.” Now to get you caught up:

So after my last post……we were totally wedding minded, since it was less than a week to go. The week (Aug. 18-23rd) went by really fast, it was full of meetings with different wedding vendors and people coming into town. My dad arrived on early Tuesday morning; he left AZ a whole day early since he was so excited to get to IA for the wedding. Skinny and I work thru Wednesday and then were off to get various things done for the wedding and everything. On Thursday Skinny and my dad played golf, while I ran errands. That might everyone meet at “the Boy” and Big “L”’s house for a bar-b-que. It was fun and everyone got along.
Friday morning started off with myself and all “my girls” getting our toes and nails done, then it was off to the hotel to drop off clothes, food and stuff for the hospitality room and for the weekend. A quick lunch and then off to the hair salon for a bridesmaid hair cut and a style for me, so that it would be a quicker process on the wedding day for my up-do. Once our hair was done, I headed home to get so relaxation time and get ready for the rehearsal, plus dinner. Skinny and I didn’t have a lot of time to relax but enough to collect our thoughts before going downtown again. Rehearsal went smoothly and took less time then we planned, which was good… it gave Skinny and I time to get everything down to the restaurant for the night’s festivities. Dinner was great….from the food to seeing everyone…. I think I cried thru most of it…. but it was all good. Everyone loved their presents….we were even able to find the claret ties for all the groomsmen to wear and keep. Before I knew it dinner was over and we were heading back to the hotel. Skinny stayed there, while I heading back to the apartment for the night.
You would figure after the busy night, I would be able to sleep…but no… I ended up finishing the last of the thank you notes for gift we got before the wedding… I packed and re-packed my bag for the next day….finally around 2 am I feel asleep… but then was up by 7am. I made myself stay in bed till 7:45am before getting up and into the shower.
IT was WEDDING DAY…..and it felt like everything was in fast-forward. Joy-Joy picked me up at 9am and we were off to the salon for hair and make-up. Everyone arrived on time, in their bowling shirts and before we knew it….hair dos were done, make-up was on…and all the bagels were gone. Next it was down to the hotel to eat lunch and get dressed. Rands and I checked out the room before heading up to the penthouse…. It was so pretty already, I couldn’t wait to see what it would look like with all the candles lit. Once we got upstairs to dress… it was kind of a blur… everyone helping with slip and shoes…then the long process of buttoning all the buttons on the back of the dress. The photographer was there to catch everything. Then it was time for the “first Look”…Skinny was on the patio waiting for me……I walked outside, he had his back to me… I got into place and started to cry a little…. He turned around with the biggest smile ever….and I almost lost it. He told me how pretty I looked and we hugged and kissed while the photographer got a bunch of pictures.
Once the initial pictures were done…then it was time for the formal pictures….. and there were tons. Everyone was in at least 10 different pictures……if not more. But we got every pose, grouping and combination we could think of…plus we even had a little extra time before we needed to sign the marriage license and line up for the ceremony.
The Ceremony went off just as we had planned… The mother read a beautiful poem, plus Skinny and I were able to get thru our personally vows without too much crying. Before you could blink, Skinny was breaking the glass, the kiss followed……and … we were husband and wife.
Then the party started….there was food…drinks and dancing. The only downer was the best man getting a little too drunk and having to go home early…but no one really noticed…so that was good. People are still talking about how much fun they had….which was evident since when the DJ said” last song” there was still about 50 people still at the reception.
Skinny and I head to our suite for the night…and to our surprise the hotel ( plus Rands and the mother) head decorated our suite with rose petals, candles, champagne and chocolate covered strawberries… not to mention a pillowcase with our names on it. It was so sweet and nice….but we didn’t have a camera to take a pictures… so I only have my memory of it.
Sunday morning it was brunch in the penthouse with everyone before they headed home. We opened the gifts we had gotten the night before….and headed home to figure out were to store everything. Skinny and I hadn’t really started packing for the honeymoon…even though we would be leaving in less the 24 hours… so the rest of the day was filled with packing, a couple runs to Target for supplies and misc. items. We tried to get into the bed early…but both of us were too excited to sleep….then again 3am came fast. But we were up and ready for our quick ride to the airport.
Finally at the airport we could start our honeymoon…..first it was off to MN then the 8 hour flight to HI….. a quick stop in Honolulu then off to Maui. We both changed our watches to HI time and tried to nap on the plane. So when we landed we were not that tired. But when 9pm (HI TIME) rolled around we were ready for bed. The Honeymoon was filled with great seafood, sun and sand. It was a great week and we didn’t want to leave. Skinny and I even vowed that every couple of years we are going to try to get back there.
We landed in IA again and it was back to work and normal life. Now that we have been back for 3 weeks it seems like yesterday that we were getting ready to leave.
Skinny and I have been married for 1 month now….and I’m still getting used to the idea. Now we were even looking for a new place to live…..we will be an “old” married couple before we know it.