Heather (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} heddychaa) wrote,@ 2008-09-07 23:07:00 |
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A very quick wedding post!
Things that went hilariously wrong:
- all of the boning broke in my $1000 dress and my boobs fell out. My bridesmaids cut the strings from my corset to fashion straps for me. They sewed them on using a hotel kit in my in-laws' hotel room. So that was fine.
- I cried. All the way. Through my vows. And then I laughed at myself crying. So I spent my vows laughing and crying at the same time.
- As I was dancing with my grandfather, the ribbons holding my bustle tore, and my grandfather nearly had a heart attack, and kept saying "are your stays breaking? is that your stays? is that your stays?" basically the whole time we danced.
Things that just went wrong:
- it rained. and rained. and rained. and rained. my hair was ruined, we were covered in mud, we only had about a half hour window to take any pictures, and during that time my hair was ruined and I was covered in mud.
- I forgot $60 worth of corsages in the honeymoon suite's fridge.
- By the time we got back to the honeymoon suite, we were too fucking exhausted to actually use it. We took a ten minute bath in the jacuzzi tub and then fell asleep.
Things that went absolutely right:
- My mother got absolutely hammered and it was FUCKING HILARIOUS. She apparently told Erin and James to get on with the breeding already.
- Declan and I two-stepped.
- I ripped my dress to shreds dancing to Cotton-eye Joe, which is the best "trash the dress" ever. Far better than jumping in a fucking pool.
- My drunk grandfather and Declan's drunk father and my drunk brother all decided to compete for the microphone by telling jokes and singing songs. It started with Declan's father singing a sappy wedding song, teary-eyed, to his wife. Afterwards, my brother got up and said "Now that you Irish have had a song, we Canadians need to do one" and proceeded to sing roughly 20% of "The Good Ole Hockey Game" after which my grandfather started telling jokes to insult Delcan, and then Mick (Declan's Dad) sang a song to insult the British (ie my Grandfather), etc etc etc. It ended in the bartender telling Jenny that this was the "best wedding she'd ever seen".
- Declan's father got ridiculously drunk and ended up dancing shirtless and also dancing with the (young, female) bartender. He also tried to get the caterer to dance too, but he mostly stood aside and laughed.
- The food and cake were WONDERFUL.
- Everyone there drank at least 1-2 bottles of Guinness.
Things that went hilariously wrong:
- all of the boning broke in my $1000 dress and my boobs fell out. My bridesmaids cut the strings from my corset to fashion straps for me. They sewed them on using a hotel kit in my in-laws' hotel room. So that was fine.
- I cried. All the way. Through my vows. And then I laughed at myself crying. So I spent my vows laughing and crying at the same time.
- As I was dancing with my grandfather, the ribbons holding my bustle tore, and my grandfather nearly had a heart attack, and kept saying "are your stays breaking? is that your stays? is that your stays?" basically the whole time we danced.
Things that just went wrong:
- it rained. and rained. and rained. and rained. my hair was ruined, we were covered in mud, we only had about a half hour window to take any pictures, and during that time my hair was ruined and I was covered in mud.
- I forgot $60 worth of corsages in the honeymoon suite's fridge.
- By the time we got back to the honeymoon suite, we were too fucking exhausted to actually use it. We took a ten minute bath in the jacuzzi tub and then fell asleep.
Things that went absolutely right:
- My mother got absolutely hammered and it was FUCKING HILARIOUS. She apparently told Erin and James to get on with the breeding already.
- Declan and I two-stepped.
- I ripped my dress to shreds dancing to Cotton-eye Joe, which is the best "trash the dress" ever. Far better than jumping in a fucking pool.
- My drunk grandfather and Declan's drunk father and my drunk brother all decided to compete for the microphone by telling jokes and singing songs. It started with Declan's father singing a sappy wedding song, teary-eyed, to his wife. Afterwards, my brother got up and said "Now that you Irish have had a song, we Canadians need to do one" and proceeded to sing roughly 20% of "The Good Ole Hockey Game" after which my grandfather started telling jokes to insult Delcan, and then Mick (Declan's Dad) sang a song to insult the British (ie my Grandfather), etc etc etc. It ended in the bartender telling Jenny that this was the "best wedding she'd ever seen".
- Declan's father got ridiculously drunk and ended up dancing shirtless and also dancing with the (young, female) bartender. He also tried to get the caterer to dance too, but he mostly stood aside and laughed.
- The food and cake were WONDERFUL.
- Everyone there drank at least 1-2 bottles of Guinness.
