Yep. I’m married now. Occurred this past weekend.
You know, one thing people said that was that the wedding day happens so fast that you don’t remember anything about it. While it does happen quickly, i.e., stuff moves on schedule with little breaks in-between, I still remember a lot about that particular day.
But in case I don’t remember anything later on, I’m going to write what I do remember in this blog post:
- I got up around 7:30 am, showered, and then had breakfast. I poked around a bit and then got in my car and headed down to the church for 9 am.
- I got to the church and set up a few things including the basket in which to collect cards/gifts (which doubles as my magic props suitcase) and then wandered around for a bit, waiting for people to show up.
- The make up girl arrived before anyone else, so I had some anti-shiney-stuff put onto my face so it wouldn’t reflect in all of the photos.
- Speaking of photos, the other groomsmen arrived and had their make up put on, and while we were waiting for the other half of the bridal party, we went outside and had our pictures taken with the rest of the groomsmen. The bride and her bridesmaids came by about 10 minutes before the service started and we took as many pictures as we could, but we didn’t get them all done. We were going to have to take a few more after the service.
- We were waiting around in the lobby for a couple of minutes and the girl who did the opening announcement made everyone in the audience laugh. I couldn’t really here what was being said but it was nice to see everyone laugh like that. Finally, the party started to walk in. It was at this point that I got a little bit nervous. But as soon as I got to the front and watched the bridesmaids come in, the nerves vanished.
- We went through the ceremony, biblical passages were read and then the pastor gave a brief sermon. I have to be honest here, I wasn’t really paying close attention. I just couldn’t focus. Oh, well.
- I put the ring on the wife’s finger and then kissed the bride. At this point, the exit music that we had discussed the previous day began to play and I strutted down the aisle, exiting as everyone cheered. As I got to the back of the church, they told me that we weren’t done yet and I had to go back. Rather than take a look around and see if that were true, I made a split second decision to continue strutting like it was all part of the plan. It wasn’t, but it sure looked that way. But I can hardly be blamed; the music playing was my cue to exit.
- We went through this a couple of times more and finally I was allowed to exit from the front, at which point I once again strutted down the aisle. We immediately met up and signed the wedding papers and exited the back of the church to finish off pictures.
- After we finished pictures, we noticed that pretty much everyone had left the church (they did wait around for a bit but were told that we would meet them at the reception). This was disappointing because we had hoped to have a receiving line. Oh, well, it was a time constraint. When you have a wedding on short notice and the day was as compressed as ours was, sacrifices had to be made.
More in my next post…