The Wedding

I went to a wedding on Saturday. It was absolutely gorgeous! I'm not really sure what the other color was, but the one color was Eggplant (the color of the bridesmaids' dresses). And the styles of the dresses were great, too....except for the backs of the dresses..they seemed a little strange in their design, but whatever. The decorations were great....they kinda went with a fall theme, which I thought was great. And Kari's (the bride) dress was awesome. Strapless, white, with lots of glitter, and maybe some beadwork, but I really didn't get close enough to tell. I hope I can look half as good as she did at my wedding!
But, getting to the wedding...that was pretty close to a nightmare! Mom and I were running late for her supposed hair appointment (I don't think you can make appointments at Great Clips, but she thought she had one..anyways) and it was all my fault, of course, because I didn't let her have the shower first. Well, Susie (my aunt) also had a wedding that day, but it wasn't until later, and she got in the shower before me, so I would have been out in plenty of time if she wouldn't have been in there. Anyways. It took Maddie about an hour to do Mom's hair because it's so f-ing long and she was curling it. So, we were running late-r. It only took her about half an hour to do mine, and it looked great, but since she couldn't take her time, some of the curls fell out, but that's ok. So, we finally get home and the boys had called their friend's parents to see if they could hang out there for the day, and they could. Well, since Jake was at my house already, we decided to go grab some Arby's, since we both hadn't eaten. Well, I made the mistake of telling Mom where we were going...she asked us to pick up some food for them, too. So, the person at Arby's taking the order messed things up and it took about 5 minutes to straighten it out. We finally got the food back (after we had to stop at Wal-Mart to grab a card for Mom) and it was about quarter after 11, and we were gonna leave around 11:30 to get there in time (the wedding was at 1 pm in Ft. Jennings, which is about an hour away). Well, I had to shove food at the boys and get them over to their friend's house. We get them dropped off and I realize that I forgot some stuff at home...so it's back to my house. By this time, I've already spilled Dr. Pepper on my crotch about 3 times. I get my stuff and I'm backing out when I asked Jake for my sandwich. He pulls it out, and I guess when I was backing out, he didn't have time to grab the drink that was in his lap, and it spilled all over my floor...there was very little left in the bottom of the cup by the time he grabbed it. So yeah, that was fun. But then, things actually started looking up. Jake dropped a thing of honey mustard that he was using for his fries, and it landed "jelly-side up" (as the expression goes), and he didn't get any on him. But, he did manage to get some horseradish, or something like that on him before that...white stuff on his pants, of course. And, even though we were running about 10-15 minutes late when we finally left Wapak, we made it to the church with 8 minutes to spare. Yay for going 80-85 on US 30! We got there, and, as I said, the wedding was beautiful. The reception was okay. The decorations were pretty, but it seemed to take forever before we got to eat, and the cake was kinda dry tasting (at least, that's what I thought), but the dancing was fun. I made Jake dance with me. He was all self-conscious because he can't dance or whatever (he can slow dance, but anything else is kinda dodgy), but I told him not to worry about it. I made him dance with me because I've never had a date to a wedding...and I really don't wanna dance with my dad, so I usually didn't do a whole lot of dancing. But, we had a good time. We were beat by the time we got home. And we didn't technically get lost on the way home because the stupid people who named the roads in Ft. Jennings need to be kicked in the head. We were looking for Redd Road...but they changed the name on their end to Road 21, or something like that. So, we drove past it several times, and I just decided that I was gonna take it and pray that it was the right one, and, for once, it was! :) So, we left early cuz I thought I was gonna have to pick up my brothers, but I didn't, but we still left anyways. And we got home around 9:30. :) It was fun, but after the experience I had on the way there, I'm in no hurry to have to go thru this myself!