Bad Manners and Brimstone

I want to thank all of you for being a virtual part of this year-long journey with me. Your thoughts, ideas, guidance and kind criticism was very much appreciated and valued. I LOVE this board and all of its members!

The entire three-day celebration (from rehearsal to rehearsal dinner to ceremony to end of reception, to brunch the next morning) was a huge success. I'm probably biased but it was the best wedding event that I've ever attended. Almost everything ran smoothly, the wedding planners were awesome and a good time was had by all.

I danced my legs off. LOL! Haven't done that in years! Could hardly walk to the brunch (8 blocks away) the next morning, but I made it!


Just for fun, I'll share a few drama points with you:

1. DD#1 & Fsam arrived at my house on Tuesday before the wedding. We had a bunch of minor details to attend to before we went to the hotel on Friday morning. All is good, plans for errands are set. On Wednesday Fsam received a text from one of his good friends (and ex-employer) which was a bit disturbing. Apparently Friend thought that he was in the wedding party, which was not the case. Fsam texted him back a couple of times with a "sorry" explanation type thing.

Texts kept coming in with Friend being extremely rude, insulting, and disparaging. To the point where Fsam though about calling the LA police about doing a wellness check on him because this was so far out of the normal realm of Friends usual pattern.

We knew this was a serious problem when Fsam received an text (Thursday night) from his current employer about an email that he received talking smack about Fsam doing drugs, etc..

All of the above freaked Fsam and DD#1 a bit.  "Is he going to show up at our wedding and ruin everything?"

DD#1 and Fsam went to the local police dept. on Friday morning to file a harassment complaint. blah, blah, blah, everything is cool. Although because of this Fsam lost what used to be a good friend. Sigh.



2. The ceremony start time was held up for about 20 minuets due Uncle and sons mistaking the start time to being an hour later. DD#2 finally called them and asked "Were are you?" "We're waiting in the lobby of the hotel for someone to show up and let us know where to go!"

Head shake, eye rolls "Call an Uber, get here as soon as possible!" There was talk about starting the ceremony without them, but they've traveled a long distance and DD#1 thought it was extremely important for them to not miss the whole experience (of her walking down the aisle), etc..



3. The ceremony decorations were beautiful. Aisle between bride side/groom side were lined with flowers, greenery and candles. The candles were in a tall glass type thing where the flame was in the middle of the glass enclosure.

After I gave the bride away, I sat down in my seat. A few seconds later someone grabbed the skirt of my dress and whispered in my ear "you're on fire!" Yup, when I sat down my dress landed on top of one of those candles. Fortunately, the only damage done was to my dress. Afterwards, I thanked my hero profusely.



4. This one surprised me to no end. A long time friend (since kgarten) of the DDs got seriously drunk. Surprised me because this girl does not drink, do drugs, or anything like that. She is a straight arrow. Wedding planner stepped in, took girl to a private area, put on gloves, held her head over a trash can, etc. Another BFF of the DDs was there taking care of Girl. I stopped in several times to lend a hand but BFF kept telling me "It's your daughter's wedding. Go out and enjoy. We got this."

Long story short, we finally got Girl back to the hotel. I tipped Wedding Planner an extra $100 just because he was so kind, generous with his time and helpful in this situation which was absolutely no part of the job description.




 Other than the drama points above, it was a remarkably awesome weekend experience.

Thanks, again, for all of your help.

The ceremony start time was held up for about 20 minuets

That has to be one of my favourite typos ever. I adore the idea of the company passing the time by gravely performing formal 18th-century dances!

If the girl really doesn’t drink at all, that could easily have happened by accident. A total non-drinker has acquired no tolerance to alcohol, so the effect of it on them is much more potent: they also have no practical knowledge of how strong the various kinds of drinks are, nor any experience to help them judge how much it is affecting them. If she had just a glass or two of sweetish wine, or - far more lethal - a mixed drink containing fruit juice or syrup, she could already have been too far gone to know what she was doing.   

So happy it went well.

How did the guy not know he wasn't in the wedding party?!

I know! That's what confused us the most, I mean don't you think that there would have been discussion/tux fittings, etc. that would have alerted him months ago.

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The burn on my dress is about 6 inches long, but it's below mid calf, so I could get it cut off to make the dress much less formal.


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For the drunk girl, there are absolutely no hard feelings. I do think that she will be teased about it for some time to come.

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The ceremony start time was held up for about 20 minuets

That has to be one of my favourite typos ever. I adore the idea of the company passing the time by gravely performing formal 18th-century dances!

LOL! I had to read that over several times before I found the typo!