wyn157: April 2007

this weekend was our first choice weekend to get married. we'd wanted this weekend so i could take 2 weeks off work straddled over april and may. but being outside today, i realized that it was probably a blessing in disguise that we ended up w/ our third choice date.

i mean, it was hot. tolerable in the shade, but sweaty hot in the sun. i imagined what it would've been like to wear my dress outside taking pictures for hours, and just the very thought made me uncomfortable. i loved my dress, y'know. after hours of dress shopping, when i tried it on i knew it was THE dress. it was convenient that the silk satin and crinoline were heavy, b/c it was chilly on our actual wedding day. i've read stories though, about brides who passed out during their fittings due to the heat. i think i would've had to choose a different dress, and that would've been hard.

also, my allergies kicked in. my eyes were itching like crazy, and when they get going, my allegra doesn't work 100%. i practically claw at my eyes; i rub them until they feel sore, making my eyelids turn red. it would've been awful to be grabbing at my eyes throughout my wedding!

so in the end, getting married in march worked out. even though our honeymoon occurred one week shy of being low season, we were able to get several deals on our vendors b/c it was their last weekend in the low wedding season. and of course, i got to wear the dress i wanted without feeling like to pass out. :)

i'd always said that if i had the wedding to do over again, i'd A) go for the destination wedding we originally wanted, B) stick to the under-100 guests we tried to have, or C) have a huge wedding. inside i knew i never would've gone w/ the huge wedding, b/c it would've been such a headache, and plus, we wanted to (and did) pay for more than half of the wedding ourselves, and w/ our expensive taste, we would've gone into debt.

but after watching the video my friend's husband made, i think a bigger wedding would've been nice. not a HUGE wedding... but there were some ppl that we just couldn't invite. like, he invited no one from work... granted, he doesn't love his work peeps the way i love mine, but still, they hang out. we were forced to stick to 100 invitations, b/c that's how many we ordered hahaha! even w/ the extra envelopes they gave us, there were none to spare, and we sent out 98 in the end. (i messed up some of writing, y'know.) we ended up w/ 160 ppl, which is a pretty good size, but some friends' laughing faces were still missing.

so, as beautiful as a destination wedding would've been, i think i would've looked back on the pictures and wished there were more of my friends there. y'know, when we told our parents we wanted to have a super small wedding in the caribbean, my mom thought i'd regret doing that, b/c she had a civil ceremony and regretted it. at the time i didn't believe her, but it turns out she was right.

i'm so excited... one of my friends' husband made us a DVD from the wedding! he downloaded music... edited it... made a scrolling slideshow introduction... everything. i saw a snip of it today, and it actually makes me wish i'd hired a videographer!

i never thought i'd want to see myself on screen, but the way he put everything together looked so awesome. the dancing... the comments... our first dance... he even got the cake cutting where the cake gopooh was trying to feed me fell on my dress. it's so great. (not the cake falling on my dress part, but y'know, that's part of the memories.) hearing the music brought me right back to the day. i can't wait until i get my own little copy. :)

well, we're back from the blur of a wedding day/night and our honeymoon! we had an unbelievable time in curacao. it was definitely the best vacation ever, even though our 9 days and 8 nights were a few days too short! if you're like us and not really the type to spend all your time lounging around the beach/pool and swimming, we totally recommend this place. there was sooo much to do there. literally, for the first 4-5 days we had at least 1 activity/day.

i was going to write about the funny things that happened the night of and before the wedding... and also write about our honeymoon and show pictures... but things have been kinda hectic since we got back! first our plane was delayed. then our luggage was lost. (and of course it wasn't the bag w/ our beach towels and snorkeling gear; it was the one w/ all our clothes!) and now gopooh's sick and i've been stuck at the hospital w/ the OB labor from hell. man, chaos...