Wedding Day

May 27th, 1995.

Our Wedding Day.

I did my best to stay calm and enjoy the day. Thankfully I went back and rechecked our flowers the week before - they had the colors wrong, but now they were correct. But the cake was not. Our colors were dark blue (my favorite color) and magenta (I liked Rocky Horror.) I chose magenta bows around the flowers and magenta icing on the cake. The flowers were wrapped with dark blue, but they changed them to the magenta. But I didn't check on the cake before today and they made the icing dark blue. My father was with me when I went and saw our cake for the first time. I just stared at it and said "It's the wrong color." My Daddy said "Yes. I know." And we walked out.

I was determined not to let anything bother me that day.

We had a beautiful mass-ceremony. My girls' dresses were all handmade by a friend of mine. I was wearing my "bargain" of a dress ($200 from a thrift store), Thomas and his boys' looked very handsome, and a mutual friend sang beautifully. We enjoyed every moment. We were surrounded by family and friends. And after, we celebrated with food and dancing. Tom and I had our first dance to Brian Adams and our family dance was to Steven Curtis Chapman. Another song that was very special to me was White Wedding by Billy Idol. My brother impersonated Billy Idol when we were in college and during our reception he did a little "Billy" for us. (Hey little sister what have you done?.....)

When the party was done, Tom and I went with some of our friends to a bar downtown. It was fun going out in my wedding dress.

A couple of hours later we drove to our hotel for the night.