i'm almost too tired to do this. but i want it to be done.
the wedding.so. we got there later than intended, about 1pm. the wedding was supposed to start at 2pm, so half the people were already there. i managed to get all the way down to the car without the wedding dress, and all the way to my work (i was meeting a friend to drive down together) without my corset. stopped at wal-mart to buy large quantities of ground beef for the burgers.
we get there and i immediately go into meltdown because crista, who is doing my makeup, is not there. somer, who is doing my hair, is not there. i run around already tired and thinking i should go after some xanax because everyone is already coming up wanting my attention. very stressful. thankfully, very shortly after i get there and panic about crista and somer not being there...crista and somer show up. i squeeze into my corset and head outside to have my hair and makeup done. all up in front of god and everybody. yeah, i'm tacky. but it was the only place with good lighting. actually, it ended up being much nicer that way. i got to relax and be surrounded by my friends and family. it gave me a little bit of time to calm down before getting frantic again. sara, my lesbian in a hat, came by to talk to me. i love her and miss her a lot. i wish she didn't live in not-texas. she showed me the tattoos she designed for us and i enjoyed talking to her and errol and virginia (not to mention crista! hah.) and i just sat and thought about how loved and lucky i am.
frantic happened when i tried to go and get dressed. i ended up yelling at some people. i have
no idea who. i kept saying "i need to get dressed, i need to put on my wedding dress" and just kept trying to make it the 30 feet into my old bedroom so i could put on my wedding dress and people kept like, trying to get me to come do other things, come see the cake, come give them a hug, come back outside, and i ended up totally snapping and yelling that i needed to get to put on my goddamn wedding dress. once in the bedroom i ended up having to lock the damn door because people kept trying to walk in.
seriously? nothing could deter these people. i went to the bathroom with crista and was peeing and people just walked in to talk to me. crista sat down to pee? more people came in, people who don't even know crista, and LEFT THE DOOR OPEN while talking. i mean, seriously, what the fuck? i was very anxious and angry because at this point, i almost just wanted to be left the fuck alone.
i remember passing jeremy a few times. he helped me into the wedding dress and handed me my vows so i could make sure i had them memorized before going back outside. he was as bad as me. it was such a blur. someone (i want to say somer) came in and said that my friend kristin was pulled over and might be too late for the ceremony. ugh ugh ugh. panic stress meow. my sister haley came in to see if i wanted any changes to the vows or anything. somehow, i got back outside. i really don't remember how i got there. oops.
so i get all my bridesmaids (my sister michelle, crista, and katy) and try to get jeremy and his groomsmen (jeff, robert, and ricky) to just stand up under the wisteria so i can see where we need to be. the plan was to get positioned and then i'd go get mom and we'd start the ceremony. but while we were trying to do this, suddenly it was very obvious that everyone was quiet and staring at us and haley goes "oh shit are we doing this now?" and i go "well. i guess so." and we all realise mom isn't there. so michelle tears ass to the porch and screams "MOM! HEATHER IS GETTING MARRIED
RIGHT NOW! GET OUT HERE!"
it made everyone laugh and provided some much needed breakage in the tension.
also, best of timing, kristin came walking out with mom. so yay! she wasn't late!
so my mom came out and we walked to the back of the backyard and my dad and my cousin maddie start playing "here comes the bride" on guitar (dad) and cello (maddie). mom walked me up and gave me to jeremy, and - according to the photos - gave jeremy a kiss on the cheek. i have little memory of this part. my heart was pounding and all i could think of were my vows. honestly? i was just scared shitless of forgetting them. here is what i remember of this part:
i remember walking back to the back of the yard. i remember walking towards the wisteria arbor, but i don't remember the music playing. i remember hugging my mom close and sighing and saying "oh man." she put me up with jeremy and i remember standing there petrified and i put my arm through his and said "i stole your arm." haley started talking and i tuned her out to go through my vows again. she said the part that meant i had to say my vows, and i turned to jeremy, holding his left hand in my right. i started to talk and my voice was deep and husky with fear. not good. i don't really remember talking, but i remember being pleased that i was getting it right. i remember
clearly staring down at jeremy's free hand and thinking "i need both hands." i grabbed his other hand and pulled them close to my chest and finished my vows. he said his vows and i nearly started crying. i don't know how i held it together. we put our rings on each other and haley said we could kiss, and i grabbed onto jeremy like i was drowning and he was the only thing that could save me...and he gave me the sweetest kiss i've gotten from him since the night we met. truly worthy of our wedding. i remember it in perfect detail. i even remember being surprised by it. :)
we both kind of turned to everyone and everyone was just staring, and i think i said something like "i think that's it!" and everyone like, bum-rushed us. i hugged about a thousand people, and was doing just fine until crista comes up to me, and i hear her say "oh baby!" and she's crying and next thing i know i'm just hanging onto her, sobbing, and cursing her for being the one to break the floodgates. :P
so then i hugged eight billion thousand people and everyone wanted to talk to me, and in between stress, allergies, not having eaten yet, and not having had caffeine yet, i was pushing a full-on migraine. i took a MySpace "angles" picture in my wedding dress (seen
here) with mikey's cell phone and snuggled sara a lot and tried to be as sociable as possible. i got a burger and that's about when i gave up and hid inside to try to eat so i could take some excedrin. i ended up changing out of my dress, because the migrane was making me nauseous, but the corset sure as shit wasn't helping. kristin, my sexy massage therapist, poked my face a lot and managed to get a lot of the shit to release. the excedrin kicked in, and i did okay.
i was outside again and duke came up to me and wanted to eat cake. i tried to get everyone on board with cake at this point but no one listened to me. luckily, there was a "leftover" cake (made from the batter that didn't get used on jeremy's groom's cake) and i gave duke some of that, and promised him more cake later.
outside again, and i held still for about a thousand super posed pictures. i felt like a rockstar or something. my very own red carpet event. people just kept putting more people around me in different groups and i just kind of went with it. no idea what was going on. i already knew at this point that a nap was going to be very necessary.
then there was champagne handed to us by randel and candy. they poured the champagne into our glasses and suddenly everyone turns to look and i look at jeremy and go "uh...what are we saying here?" and he just shrugs and looks baffled, deer-in-headlights. so i hold up the glass and yell "WE DUN DID IT!" in a thick drawl. and drain half my glass. then, i yell out "AND FOR THE MOSELEY SIDE OF THE FAMILY - I'M NOT KNOCKED UP!!" it's funny, because it's true. jeremy's the second person in his whole family to have his first marriage be for love, not a baby on the way. i pwn. god alone knows what else is happening here. it's blurry in my head. migrane = not clear thinking.
somehow, we all got back inside for cake. the cake requires explanation. the groom's cake was a red velvet armadillo cake. if you've seen Steel Magnolias, you'll get the joke. if you haven't, don't worry about it. my cake was a very traditional wedding cake, but with a very personal twist. my mom's friend, Becky Sikes, used to make room sized wedding cakes back in the 80s. she made a cake topper for their friend Janie's wedding about 25 years ago, and janie preserved it. it's all flowers made out of sugar. it's faded a lot since then into these beautiful muted colours. janie gave it to me for my wedding. Becky died in 2000. so, in that way, becky was at the wedding. it was nice.
we cut the cake, we ate some cake, jeremy didn't mush it all up in my face, so a thousand love points for him. we sat around for a while and then we opened presents. we made out like goddamn bandits.
after the presents? we napped. we ran the hell out of energy.
after the nap, i downed some hydrocodone (i knew if i drank, i'd be a mean drunk. so i got un-sober by other more pleasant means.) and we went to a friend's house for the "afterparty". jeremy got drunk and played video games. i sat around in my own little pleasant universe and hung out with my good friends there. it was a great ending to the evening. then me and willy and jeremy and katy and mikey went back to our apartment and hung out more. katy spent the night on our supremely comfortable couch.
something of note? i said "fuck" more times that day than i did my entire sophomore year of high school. beat
that!
so. now there are a few more things:
pictures: they're all here:
they're separated into high-speed friendly (all pictures on one page) or dial-up friendly (broken down into many pages.)
these were all taken by Jessica.
crista took pictures as well. hers are here:
http://sugarandvice.typepad.com/photos/dual_weddings/ - crista had two weddings to go to on saturday, so if you see pictures of people who clearly are not me or are not at my wedding? that's why. :)
there should be about 3 more people giving me pictures soon. and i'll even try to get video off my dad. :)
and also?
vows. i want it to be known throughout the land that JEREMY WROTE THE VOWS. i wrote my own vows, but everything else? jeremy wrote. he's amazing.
the wedding vows are
( here )i tried to get everything. i have bigger copies of all the photos, so if you're in one or just want a better copy...or if you want like, more detail about anything or...anything...lemme know.
i'll post more photos as i get them. <3
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