All of us who got married in a wedding with friends and family probably have a story to tell of what shouldn’t have happened but did. I think the number one thing that was wrong was that there was no booze at our reception, which was held one of the buildings at our church. We were on a tight budget and our friends at church all pitched in and put together our reception for us. It was basically a pot luck party with a wedding theme. Pretty cheesy. I’m not sure why we did not have any real champaigne for the toast, Maybe they didn’t want a bunch of drunk Christians running around screaming out, "Hallalujia, Praise God for wedding nights!!!"
I think it was all very pretentious and hypocritical now that I look back. I asked two of my friends from the singles group to be my bridemaids. And my best friend Sue to be my maid of honor. Sue’s hubby, Jimbo, walked me down the aisle an gave me away. My daughter was the flower girl. She was beautiful.
I bought the fabric for their dresses and designed the too. Lucky for me Jeff’s mom is a seamstress and made the dresses for all the gals. My wedding dress was a size 10. I bought it at a steel for $250. It was an $800 dress that was returned from a canceled wedding, and never worn. Well at that 13 years ago I wore a size 6 
Now I wear a size 14 EEEEK I don’t want to talk about it. Well Jan altered my dress and even added lots of pearl buttons on the sleeves and on the back. It fit perfect.
We went to order the flowers…damn they were expensive. I finally told the girl at the counter that we just couldn’t afford the ones that were in the catalog. I told her I need 6 boutinnieres, 5 corsages, my bouquet, and a single rose 
for my daughter. I told her what the colors were in the dresses and asked what she could do for us. I think she just felt sorry for us. She put it all together for only $150 bucks. Our wedding date was May 1st….HAH! May Day, May Day, They’re going down. Lots of jokes about that. In May all the lilacs are in bloom and my friends went around the neighborhood and picked a bunch for the reception. More cheesyness!
Oops let me back up a bit. Nancy who was very devout and was our mentor and counselor and prayer partner, well she was always having prayer meetings at her house so when I was told to be there at 5:00 for a womens meeting I didn’t think twice. Jeff dropped me off and drove away. I got to the door and it open and cameras started flashing and there were dozens of gals hugging me and giggling. It was a surprize bridal shower! I had no idea and there were friends there from my other church and from work. Wow, and I just balled my eyes out.
One of my gifts was a one hour message that I really needed. Lots of fun that night. But I mostly cried. I get so emotional. I cry when I’m mad, sad, and happy. And when I hear the National Anthem!
Ok back to the wedding. My daughter flew to Reno and stayed for 3 days so she could be in the wedding. We both stayed at Sue and Jimbo’s house. The day of the wedding we Sue made us breakfast and we drove to the church where I and the other bridesmaids got dressed. Mascara was passed around and lipstick. We put blush on each other. Jan put the two girls hair up in a french roll. And….and litterally pinned the dresses on the bridesmaids. Their dresses included a train that attached aroung the waist with a sash that had a bow on the front. Jan for got to sew on the snaps or hooks so the sash was pinned in place. Well, the wedding was suposed to start at 1:00 and it was 1:45. Pastor Rob poked his head in and said, "You can’t make your guests wait like this. You have 15 minutes and we’re going to start with or without you!" We all scattered for last minute make up and hair spray. I walked up to Jimbo and he smiled and told me I look beautiful. With everyone in their place the wedding march began to play. I held on to my boquet so tight that I was shaking, noticebly shaking. Of course the tears were already starting to come. I looked down at my flowers and they were jittering so much that petals and leaves started to fall on the floor. I was not laughing and crying .
Pastor Rob made a funny comment, he had a good sense of humor. Part of the way through the ceremony he asked me to let go of Jeff’s hand because I was cutting off the circulation! We took communion, lit candles, said our vows and then we were pronounced man and wife. I was numb. We walked down the isle together and I can hardly remember the rest of the day! Our friends greeted us at the door and we then walked across the parking lot to the building where the reception was held. More cheesyness. We all had a good time. There was about 200 people there. Lots of food and the cake was a present Toni. The room was filled with ribbons and balloons. It looked like more like a birthday party. More cheesyness. It was time for me to toss my bouquet and the gal that caught it was pregnant and single, we had a good laugh over that.
Then it was time for the toasting. We raised our plastic cups filled with sparkling cider and one by one nice things were said by all. My daughter stood up and voiced loudly that she had something to say. There was complete silence while everyone listened intently and with couriosity. Colleed then said how much she love me and that she was very happy that I met a man that made me so happy and wished us happiness for the rest of our lives together. My 12 year old made everyone cry!!
It was time to go and we drove off to the start of our honeymoon. A gift from Sue and Jimbo was the use of their time share. We went to Winter Park in Colorado. In the off season! More cheesyness. But it was beautiful. I remember Jeff and I talking about how nice it would be to live in Colorado, and here we are 13 years later.
Well, not much to tell about the honeymoon. But when we got back to what was going to be our first home together there was a nice surprise waiting for us. All our friends had packed all our stuff for us and it was waiting for us stacked neatly in boxes along the walls. We walked into the bedroom and our water bed was all set up for us. And believe me that was the best of all the gifts. All the gifts were in the middle of the floor in the livingroom of our little apartment. We only got 3 toasters!.LOL
The night we got back we watched the video of our wedding. A freind of ours sho worked for chanel 34 used his big camera to tape our wedding. Well studio cameras can pick up radio signals. and as we were taking communion you could hear music in the background…..We listened and started rolling on the floor with laughter. It was the "Oldie But Goodie" radio station that the camera pick up. The song that was playing was "Let the good times roll" by Shirley and Lee. Ok that’s the end, hope it wasn’t too boring
I am very tired so good night.
Pam 
Me too. I ran in to get the camera…of course, and started taking pictures. 
Can’t wait to see you and Froggy! 
And God forgave us every time. We went to these marraige classes. You had to go to get the pastors blessing and if he did not approve he would not perform the marraige. They would have us do all kinds of silly stuff and we would have tests. It was rediculous but fun at the same time.
Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me…" Then an officer knocked on my window and asked if I were alright? HaHaHa It was a sign from God! I think He was trying to tell me not to drive so fast in the snow!!!! The officer drove me to Jeff’s house. I felt just awfull. I walked through the door and everyone looked at me and knew something was wrong. Jeff asked, "What’s wrong?" and I replied, 
Good Intentions 