Runaway Bride's Wedding

Cat's Day at the Wedding

I didn't get any sleep the night before the wedding due to taking pictures at my niece's slumber party and making DVD slideshows for each of the girls to take home that morning. So... some of the crazy stuff probably helped keep me awake!

I was told that the church was across the street from "the big church" in town, but was never given an address or even a street name. They told me that "the big church" was just a plain old Christian church. I did some Googling for information because it's about 40-50 minutes from where I live.

There is a Townname Christian Church there - so I was looking for it, but should have been looking for the Methodist Church. Luckily, the town is smaller than 10 blocks by 10 blocks! I'm glad it was in town and not out in more rural areas where I would have had a harder time finding it.

I had been told to arrive at 1:30 ... since I didn't know exactly where I was going, I left home early. I found the church about 1:00 and sat outside waiting. When the bride and groom arrived at 1:40 (with their child) they were fighting. There were a few more spats before the wedding and at the reception.

Before the wedding I walked over to the (small) reception hall to get pictures of the cake. The bride's father and the groom were taking the cake tiers out of the boxes, putting them on the stands, and trying to figure out how to drape the fabric on the bottom and wind the ivy up the poles of the stands. The blind leading the blind. The cake came from Wally-World (WalMart) and was decorated with pink & blue roses - looked more like a baby shower cake when you don't know the gender of the baby yet.

Bride's father was wearing a baseball team's t-shirt under his white shirt - you could see the logo through the back. Thankfully he wore his jacket during the ceremony, which lasted all of 10 minutes.

Bride's mother (Stormy) wore black pants and a black top with a bright tropical shirt over the black top. You could barely see her corsage because of the bold print.

Minister who performed the ceremony wore a tie with bright colors. The design included a church.

We won't even go into details of jeans, shorts, etc.

Bride's sister had to get money from dad to buy gas to get back home. They stopped at Starbucks on the way to the wedding and spent their gas money.

I told the bride before the ceremony that when it was over we would do family pictures at the front of the church. All she wanted when it was over was a picture of them with the minister who performed the ceremony. As the reception was nearing its end, the groom's family started asking about family pictures. We took those outside the church. Runaway Bride wasn't interested in those shots earlier, so I wasn't forcing the issue with her before the reception.

Counting children, there were no more than 30 people at the wedding. If the children had not been there, there would not have been anyone to catch the bouquet or garter!

It was a crazy crazy day......