Weddingbee Blog

Where did we leave off? Oh, right…

It is the day of our wedding and I’m slightly hung over.

Me at our wedding. You’d think I would have learned my lesson the night before?

photo by Dolphin Dad’s BFF, Sam Dobrow Photography, crap-o crop job by me

I hate using that term, because I NEVER drink (I can count on one  hand the amount of drinks I’ve had this year - minus the rehearsal dinner). But, I had this grand idea the night before our wedding to have one too many Malibu Bay Breezes at our Rehearsal Dinner. Go me. Chose the PERFECT night to drink alcohol. The night before our wedding I spent staying up with Seminole Bridesmaid (who couldn’t sleep because she was waiting for her hubby to get into town) and Sunny MOH. I think I got a total of 4-5 hours of sleep in-between the tummy aches, a headache and the nausea. Looking back, I’m really not sure if it was the Malibu Bay Breezes or my nervousness that the day we had been planning for 2 YEARS was finally upon us. I’m still not sure…

After Dolphin Dad made an emergency run to our Bridal condo the morning of our wedding to bring me Pepto and Aspirin, we were off to the gorgeous Veranda Pampering Salon to get our hair did. By the way, I LOVE saying “gettin’ our hair did”. It makes me feel all gangsta.

Seminole Bridesmaid and Happy Bridesmaid posing with our food spread from PAN PAN (my nickname for Panera). Carbs never looked so good. What happened to the whole ’dieting before the wedding/being in the best shape of my life’ thing? Yeah… that didn’t happen.

Don’t I look fabulous on my wedding day (sarcasm)? Yeah… I was a total hot mess. I even messed up my pedicure from the day before and had to drop by the nail salon to have it fixed. I was frazzled to say the least, but what bride isn’t? If you weren’t frazzled and a complete trainwreck the morning of your wedding, I can’t talk to you.

The pampering salon is in a little old house, so all the rooms are super small but have so much character. I absolutely love this place. We had a good time taking over EVERY square inch of this place with all our bags, food, and chatting.

Gator Bridesmaid chatting it up with Dolphin Momma’s Sister while Happy Bridesmaid looks on.

Eating my ’last meal’ as a single gal with Mr. Dolphin’s sister, Sweet Bridesmaid. Activia Yogurt and a Coke is the perfect last meal. One is to keep me ’regular’ (very important, even on your wedding day, y’all know what I’m talkin’ about) and the second is for energy.

With all that downtime (which will be explained later) Sunny MOH had time to ice her knee. Our rehearsal wasn’t without a few mishaps, between me drinking too much and Sunny MOH taking a fall at our reception site. We were certainly a pair!

Lady Gaga (Seminole Bridesmaid’s nickname) doing my makeup. She is AMAZING with makeup. I strive one day to be just like her. I’ll buy a pair of shoes and be like ’these are my Seminole Bridesmaid shoes’, or ’this is my Seminole Bridesmaid purse’. Yes, I’m a stalker, it’s okay, she knows.

Even sweet little flower girls need some pampering. KK getting her nails painted by her Momma. Her little dress even had daisies on it… how appropriate!

The whole morning I was having weird ’out of body’ experiences. I think during our whole wedding I kept saying, “it is so weird, it is like I’m not even here and I’m watching it all happen in front of me.” Planning a wedding for so long can do this to you, I believe. I tried my best multiple times throughout the day to take a moment and say, “This is our wedding day,” over and over again ’til I was back in my body. I just couldn’t believe that the day we had been dreaming about for 7.5 years was FINALLY here. It was just unreal. That is the only word I have to explain it.

Thanks to my good planning (yes I like to praise myself; weird, I know) we had plenty of time to get our hair done, eat lunch and lounge around till the wedding started. I think we had a total of 2 hours downtime, which was WONDERFUL. I just hung out with my ladies, ate food, watched TV, chatted, sneaked a peek at our ceremony site, bossed people around, told them I loved them afterwards, texted my groom, got phone calls from a florist who didn’t know where to deliver their shiz, received frantic phone calls from my groom over not knowing which boutonniere was his, Facebook, Twitter… all sorts of fun and relaxing things. It was THE BEST. I highly recommend having some down time worked into your schedule.

And because I love y’all so much, click here to download our wedding schedule. I think the key factor in all of this was our hairstylists. They finished 6 Bridesmaids, 1 Bride and 2 Momma’s within 2.5-3 hours. They were AMAZING.

When our videographer and photographer called, that was really when the shiz hit the fan. I went into full on BRIDE MODE and started freaking out. It was here. I was getting married!

Up next? Time to put on that little white dress, and take some pictures with the family and friends (my awesome support team). Here’s a little sneak peek, captured by Dolphin Mom.

I remember being super annoyed when Dolphin Mom took this picture. It was HOT (May in Florida… need I say more?), I had just taken a bazillion pictures with my ‘maids, family, and future hubby (yes we did the ’First Look’, you know you love it) and hungry. Don’t come between a bride and food on her wedding day. Looking back I’m so glad Dolphin Mom captured this moment. My face says it all.

Okay… so this is a serious update on our photography and videographer situation (which has been the reason for my absence):

1. We were supposed to receive our pro pics this week. They were sent to us but then returned because of an ’insufficient address’. I don’t appreciate the mailman coming between me and my pictures!!! So… we must wait EVEN LONGER. Is 2 months not enough??
2. We met with our videographer last weekend (she is amaze-balls, affordable and I can’t wait to tell you ALL about her) and saw our ’highlights’ reel. It was beyond amazing. Epic is the only word I had to describe it. Just EPIC. Sometime next week I will have it posted (I hope). I can’t wait!

So the whole ’no pro pics/video’ has been killin’ be these past few weeks. I have started about a bazillion blog posts but find myself not being able to finish them for lack of the appropriate pictures.

I’ve missed y’all so much and can’t wait to say, “I’m back.” It should be soon.