Being Made of Honor

I have been so busy these pass couple of days! My sister's wedding has consumed my life! But now that it's over, it's pretty depressing. I will catch you up on the two "news" that I have done on Friday and Saturday.

Well, as most of the general audience knows, the day before the wedding is always the rehearsal night. I always forget about the rehearsal part and just think about the dinner. The rehearsing at the church went really well, AND I was the first person to get there! Who knows, maybe I am changing my ways:)

For the rehearsal dinner, we went to Neighbor’s Place and Mr. Pavel was taking care of the bill:) Oh, I was not going to miss this opportunity. I got the fabulous skirt steak that was amazing and I also ordered Pina Colada to drink which I had never done before! Now, I'm pretty sure I've tasted a pina colada before, but I've never ordered one, let alone two. I shared, I shared don't worry, but  like I said, I wasn't going to miss this opportunity. Justin, my brother, certainly wasn't going to miss this opportunity either, he ordered two entrees and cleared them both away! He is still a growing boy apparently.

But seriously, I need to get pina coladas more often! They are fabulous! I told my roommate I drank a lot of colada and I think she thought I was serious, as in they weren't virgin, and I didn't care to correct her either. She's silly.

The next day was the big day! We had a lovely bridal brunch in, provided by my lovely mother. I ate a lot. There was monkey bread, bacon, pancakes, fresh fruit, tea biscuits, scones, coffee, tea, and I am sure I'm forgetting something else. But after the brunch, my mother and I went to go get umbrellas because it was raining terrible outside and if we had to take the pictures outside, we needed cute umbrellas. Heather was nervous about the rain, but she kept repeating over and over, "Don't stress, it's okay, It'll turn out great." I don't remember how many times she said it. And little did she know it would turn out great! It turned out to be a beautiful day at the most perfect time! God was certainly smiling down on her wedding.

We went with Heather to get her hair done and when we got to the church, I did makeup! Heather's makeup looked so good! And it stayed on all night as well! The eye makeup primer at Victoria's Secret is fabulous! It makes your makeup last ten times longer. I hardly do any touch ups at all when I use it. Anyways, I'm getting off topic, after Heather got her spanks on(if you don't know what that is, don't even worry about it) she put her dress on. She looked absolutely beautiful. Like from the cover of a magazine! I couldn't believe it.

Before we went out to take picture, we realized something. There were no bouquets for us. We had someone doing flower arrangements and boutonnieres, but I guess there was a miscommunication and we had nothing. Well, I don’t know who thought of it, I think it might have been me, but we had a bouquet of lavender flowers to represent my Nana so we all decided to each walk down with a stem from the bouquet and Sue(who did all of the other flower arrangements) had to run and go get flowers for a bouquet for Heather. She saved the day! So now the flowers we walked down with represented Nana, which turned out even better then before.

They also decided to take pictures before the wedding as well, which I thought was a dumb idea at first but then I was really glad they did! That way people didn’t have to wait around while pictures are being taken, plus it was dark by the time the ceremony was over anyways.

As soon as the ceremony started, everything went so smoothly. I successfully walked down the aisle without falling in the most uncomfortable shoes in the whole world, no joke. My dad’s little speech to them was really very good, he did a great job. When the pastor starting talking, I didn’t hear much of it at all. I tried to listen, but all I could concentrate on was my feet slowly going numb, and then I would do a little shift, and then I had a huge itch on my leg but I didn’t want to scratch it because I might fall over. It was a battle from beginning to end. My favorite part of the whole thing was the vows. They were so beautiful! They both wrote their own, and I decided that’s the way it should always be! I could see his face and he had tears just rollin! It was so beautiful.

The reception was at the top floor of this building and it was overlooking all of Lynchburg, and I’ll say it again, it was beautiful! There were just light appetizers for the food which was really good. There were a lot of dessertsJ My escort said he had given up desserts for lint, poor thing, but I tried my best to get him to eat a chocolate candy. It’s not a dessert, it’s like a little snack! It’s like a mint or gum or something. But he wouldn’t do it. Whatever, people are crazy.

Then it was time for my Made of Honor toast! I hadn’t actually written anything down, but I had thought about what I was going to say, so I wasn’t totally unprepared. I talked about how I met Pavel which is actually a weird story. It was Sunday lunch time and we were about to eat, when there was a knock on the door. I go to answer it and there was a guy standing there with a watermelon in his hands.

“Hello,” says I.

“Hello,” says him.

And then he walks on right past me up the stairs. I had never seen this guy before in my life, it was really weird. And then I went on to talk about how wonderful Heather was and how I followed her in high school and all my teachers were always a little disappointed I wasn’t like Heather. I’m telling you! No one can beat this girl! She is nothing but loved by all! Pavel doesn’t know how lucky he is!

And that was basically my speech in a nutshell, I thought it went well.

The rest of the night I was dancing! It was basically the same people on the floor the whole time but it was fun! I dragged my dad out there at one point and it was hilarious. Words cannot express.

At the end of the night we sent them away through a crowd of sparklers and “as they held each other’s hand, they stepped into a beautiful forever.” Haha that’s what my card said that I gave to themJ

Being Made of Honor? Piece of cake.

1 Corinthians 7:38
So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.
Haha just kidding:) But really this makes me smile.