It's so hard to believe that tomorrow will mark 1 month since our wedding! It was the most perfect, beautiful, amazing day...I relive it every day in my mind and it still takes my breath away!
Now the few days before that weren't so smooth..but the end result is all that matters! Here's how it went and I think Kyle may have been asking himself..what the heck am I getting myself into!
I worked Sunday and Monday night that week and we flew out Tuesday night...after a few hours sleep :) Kyle's family picked us up at the airport and took us to the house that my parents had rented. The plan for our music was that we made our own mix on Kyle's Ipod because the house had an Ipod dock and outdoor speakers--saved us a lot of money! When we got to the house that first night of course I wanted to check it out..heart attack #1 for the week--no sound coming from Ipod dock! We worked on it for a little while with no luck, then Kyle headed out with his family over to their condo and I headed out to the pool house for some sleep. AND CALLED HIM AND CRIED ALREADY IN PANIC MODE! Poor guy is all I can say..of course he said we would get it fixed but it was not a good start to the week.....in the end, the house owners had a stereo guy out the next morning and it turns out the landscapers had cut the wiring to the outdoor speakers. PROBLEM FIXED WITHIN 24 HOURS!
Which takes us to heart attack #2 when my wedding planner called and said my purple gerber daisies came in pink, she tried to color them and they just didn't look that great. If you know me any bit at all, you know that my favorite color is purple. So trying to refrain from turning into bridezilla, I told her that I loved purple and needed purple flowers--regardless of what kind--just purple! She assured me she would take care of it and upon hanging up the phone, the tears started coming and of course I called Kyle. Again, he told me they would be fine and he would go to every florist in town to find purple flowers...and he really would have. Our planner was great and by Thursday she was bringing me purple gerber daisies to make me feel better!
And for #3....how I am alive I have no clue! The reason for my parents renting a house was so that we could have the reception around the pool..our guest list only totaled 20. Part of that included clearing the pool furniture to make way for the table set-up for the reception. We had a cookout Wednesday night with our families and afterwards had some lights to set-up around the bushes, which turned out gorgeous because we had bought orange and purple lights. So we set up the lights then everyone asked what else needed to be done...I thought since we had rehearsal Thursday with dinner after that we might as well go ahead and move the pool stuff since we had plenty of help. Apparently, everyone thought that it could wait til Thursday and started giving me a hard time about it...teasing I know now but at the time it lead to the most major meltdown of the week. I just had to go in the house by myself, which led to Kyle following me inside and taking me for a walk on the beach. He was wonderful of course in telling me I was stressing myself out, the point of a destination wedding was to not be stressed out, and everything would be perfect. After my at least 30 minutes of crying, it was out of my system and I was good to go. The only tears cried after that were tears of happiness!
Here's some ceremony pics..pictures stolen from all of our friends of course :)
the aisle and chairs
the arbor
with my Dad
At this point I don't think I knew anyone else was there
first kiss
check out those purple daisies!
And I love this picture! And the guy that's in it!
