I had to pinch myself.
Well, not myself actually, I pinched my tie.
You have to work at keeping a presentable looking dimple in your tie.
As I walked through the glass doors into our church foyer, the backdrop of people lining up in their places mixed with my vision of a grand piano, and the bride and groom with official looks on their faces.... this was where all the preparations and plans would be tested. Just once or twice before the real deal.
I found my place on the side back row where soon all the cousins lined up, moved over, and squished in for a very impressive Whack-A-Mole cousin line.
Charlie, Caleb, Andrew, Me, Beth, Katie and Sam
Pastor opened up with a word of prayer and then Sis. Fackler led us through the order of the ceremony using the printouts she had handed to us prior.
I soon found myself in the foyer yet again, lined up with the wedding party.
I was to escort Joleen, Charlie had Maria, Caleb had Sarah, Andrew B. had April, and Luke had Lindsey.
Luke & Lindsey
I'm sure you know how these things go... Me and Caleb did our best to entertain ourselves, but there's only so much you can do when you're standing up on the platform in a suit, with people supposing that you've reached a level of maturity that prohibits you from tackling the groom before he walks down the platform.
I will condense about an hour of time into a few short sentences.
We stood there.
We stood there.
AAAAAAND we stood there.
Little Claire sang, and did an amazing job (recordings in future posts).
"Well Pastor, I was thinking Vanessa would zip-line down the aisle.....you don't think that would work?"
Lauren and Jodi were our stand-in Grandmas because the real ones were other places.
We were blessed to have Bro. Pollock there to sing for us.
Some more standing.
Bro. Dad, and Bro. Montano
The first time that Bro. White ran through his song (I've Got The World On A String), he came up with these hilarious verses that had me rolling, but I couldn't start recording in time!!!! It was FUNNY. Something about Vanessa doing Sam's laundry...but he wouldn't sing them again LOL so here is the normal words, amazing voice sounding version.
Thank God for all the musicians we get to hear on a regular basis, Sis. Davies, Bro. McCune, and Pastor Davies.
ALMOST MARRIED!!!!!!
Almost.
Almost. But not quite. We still had one more day to go.
The practice was probably the quickest one that I had been to in my life. By quick I mean two hours.
When we had fluffed the last drape, positioned the last piece of place marking tape, smoothed over the last rough spot in the song and squeezed out every last moment, we wandered out where we had began.
The foyer.
And we all went home, to sleep and lived happily ever after.
WRONGGGGGG.
Some of us had guests coming in late that night so we stayed up to see them in.
Guests that were busy losing their luggage at the airport, getting pulled over by the police and getting lost.
But that's a story for next Saturday.
