The wedding was wonderful but went by too quickly. I'm excited to get photos from our photographer so that I can remember everything that happened. Some moments of note that I laugh at now:
*Philip's car overheated somewhere between College Station and Brenham the morning of the wedding, so he had to transfer everything over to one of his groomsmen's vehicles and leave his car on the side of the road with a groomsman until it cooled off. The groomsman then attempted to drive it, only to have it overheat again, so it spent our honeymoon at a dealership in Brenham instead of in a parking lot at Hobby airport.
*My dad and I didn't have any time to practice a dance, so I picked the song the night before and we improvised. The song I chose was Guns N Roses' Sweet Child O Mine. The dance we did involved moves like The Lawnmower and The Shopping Cart. Somewhere someone has video of this, and I can't wait to see.
*When it came time for the cake cutting, Philip and I were standing behind the cakes with everyone staring at us only for us to realize that we had no idea how we were supposed to cut the beautiful cake before us. I had to pull someone out from the crowd who had been married to show us what to do.
*After the reception was over, we ran through our friends as they threw rose petals at us and climbed into the get-away car (after knocking out hundreds of balloons), which was one of my parents' cars since our original car was out of commission. Philip turned the key in the ignition, and it did the dreaded click-click-click. The battery was totally dead. My brother had to bring the truck around and jump it, and then we had to cross our fingers it didn't die again while we were at my grandparents' house changing. Fortunately, it lived.
Fortunately all of the important stuff worked out and we were married anyway :) We may have misplaced the aisle runner the morning before and maybe I couldn't get the ring on Philip's finger during the ceremony--he had to shove it on himself, and it will probably never come off again--but I still had fun, he had fun, and our families and friends enjoyed the day, and that's all that mattered.
A friend asked me what my favorite part of the wedding was. After thinking about it a bit, I told her that the best thing about my wedding was the fact that my grandparents (and, yes, my parents and siblings) were there. That's the number one thing I've ever wanted--for my grandparents, who helped raise me when I was younger, to be at my wedding. And not only were they there, but my grandfather and my dad walked me down the aisle together. It was so, so special to me.
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