Our wedding week was quite a jam-packed event! On Wednesday (4th of July) Keith and I headed home to my parents house in Louisville with our cars loaded up with all of our wedding clothes and necessities, along with our honeymoon luggage. I gave the pups a few extra treats and some wuv time (love time) before sadly heading out and promising to be back in 12 days.
While I normally quite enjoy the 4th of July, I actually despised it this year because it stupidly prevented me from getting a ton of my wedding errands taken care of (like printing the guest list at Kinkos and picking up gifts for my bridal luncheon hostesses). All was not lost though, because my sister and brother in law and my sweet little Mason arrived around 8pm and we poured some wine and relaxed with my Aunt Sherri, Uncle Ara, and cousin Summer who had flown in the day before from Cali. We had a big time hanging out in my parents backyard while the boys smoked cigars and the gals chatted it up and watched the neighborhood fireworks.
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| If you can't tell, this is my favorite way to sit...legs draped over the boy. I do it at home, at the movies, and pretty much everywhere, including the gate at the airport while waiting for our flight to leave on Sunday, and on the plane. Can't help myself! |
On Thursday, the real festivities began! I woke up early and went on a run with my sister before the boy and I headed down to the County Clerk to get our marriage license. We thought it might be a time-consuming errand, but once we got there, it actually only took about 15 minutes, and I might add that despite some long-standing stereo-types about people from Kentucky....you cannot marry your cousin there (they verify if you are related when you apply).
By Thursday evening, pretty much all of our out of town family had arrived in Kentucky, including a plane with 14 family members on it, flying in from various parts of California, and my aunt Patty & Uncle David from Georgia, Aunt Karen from Texas, and the boy's family from Georgia as well. As has become the tradition, we welcomed everyone to my parents house for a cook-out, some adult beverages, and a little corn-hole. We probably had about 40 people at the house, and with it hovering somewhere around 100 degrees, it was HOT, HOT, HOT inside and outside of the house. Even though we were pretty much melting, spirits were high and we had a great time. I will admit though, that seeing how miserably hot is was had me freaking out all week because our wedding and reception was outside. It was hard to put that aside and try not to obsess about it (which I did anyways) but I tried to just enjoy the evening for what it was.
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| Cousins Jayme and Summer, and myself |
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| A mix of my cousins, the boy's family, and members of the wedding party |
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| mom and brother |
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| Me and future husband |
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| A little cornhole action |
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| Aunt Kathy and Uncle Mike |
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| Cousin Kevin and Uncle Mike |
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| We found some hilarious pics of my aunts in the 80's while looking through my baby pics...we blew them up and made them into fans to use at the cook-out...it was really quite amusing, though somewhat less amusing to Aunt Patty and Karen |
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| Me chatting it up with the boy's mom and looking like I have a baby bump (a just to be clear, I do not have one and won't for a long while!) |
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| The point in the evening where Brynn started just holding her wine in everyone's face while she was talking to them...just for funzies |
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| brothers, cousins, and mom being ridiculous |
I will say that of all the great conversations and catching up I got to to with mine and the boy's family, the real highlight of my night was coming out to say goodnight to everyone after I had washed my face and put my glasses on, only to find my mom, dad, sister, brothers, fiance, and several members of the wedding party shotgunning beers in the backyard. Apparently I just don't know how to party.
It was a fun evening had by all, most especially my dad, who the next morning said, "The last time I felt like this after drinking was in college..." And let's just make a round-about guess about how many years back that was, shall we? Unfortunately for my Dad, he had been working on a golf scramble for the last month with about 25 of our friends/family members for Friday morning, and they had 9:30am tee time. Did I mention that it was about 104 degrees on Friday? I'll let you imagine how that went...
Next up will be a recap of Fridays events, starting with my bridesmaid luncheon! Can't wait to share more!
2 comments:
Your friends and family sound like they're a blast! I can't wait to hear more about this! I feel like I would fit right in, especially with the shot gunning beers. However, if I were the bride, I most definitely would have gone to bed early. It's two nights before a big event that your sleep counts, not the night before ;)
I can't wait to hear all about the wedding and see pics!
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