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My dear husband and I had an interesting day.
My father showed up. I do not have a relationship with him. He thought he would be playing a role. Um, yeah, not so much. His very thoughtful wedding gift? A $40 "silver" tea set from Service Merchandise that was impossible to return because there was no receipt.
My sister broke up with her boyfriend the day before she flew into St. Louis for the wedding. She was a hot mess the entire weekend, and I was thanking God that I only had to deal with 1 bridesmaid.
Our florist was suffering from the effects of HIV, and passed away not long after our wedding. A week before the wedding, however, he was no where to be found and he had not contacted the caterer to get into the venue to set up a decorating time. Our caterer got us another florist for wedding flowers - I had two sets when the original florist showed up. Thank my lucky stars I have a wonderful mama who just said quietly to the second florist "let me get you my visa card and I will pay for all of this. Thank you for coming on short notice".
Our wedding cake was wrong. It had tiers. I did not want tiers. It was tasty and delicious none the less. We have a very funny picture of my husband and I getting ready to cut the cake and he finally looks at it. He's got the greatest "wtf" look on his face.
It rained. Not a gentle rain. A torential downpour. It started the afternoon of our wedding and continued raining until Wednesday of the following week. Yeah yeah good luck and all, but the pictures inside the church were very very dark with no sunlight outside.
My husband spilled red wine on my wedding dress at the reception. I have no idea to this day if it came out.
Our honeymoon, if one could call it that, was the real kicker. Remember the rain above? My husband decided we should go to Chicago for a couple of days after the wedding. It was snowing in Chicago. It was the coldest May weekend on record and I had not planned on cold weather clothing having never been to Chicago before. All I wanted was to sleep, and my husband thought we should be up at 6 every day to sightsee. It is a wonder that we stayed married after that weekend.
He did make it up to me. We took a real honeymoon in Grenada after we had been married 5 years.
20 years later, we're still going strong.
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