So J. Fi is now J. Fu. What a weekend!!! The bridesmaids' luncheon on Friday was divine. It was held at the tres elegante Junior League. J.'s gift to me was a Waterford crystal candle votive and some candles. Wonderful food and dessert! Fast segue to Friday evening and the rehearsal at the church and the rehearsal dinner afterwards at the historic Rice Hotel. Free booze and I finally let myself have a couple of glasses of wine! And I just adore his parents--readers of this blog might remember that I spent most of my time talking with them at several pre-wedding events. Meanwhile S was with Mano at (snicker) the Def Leppard/Styx/Foreigner concert! So I picked up the baby at J.'s parents' house after I was done with rehearsal dinner activities.
Saturday was nuts. I don't know why I do these things to myself. We took the baby to storytime at the library; grabbed a quick lunch at Chik-Fil-A; went back to the library to watch a movie, Zoom (I give it 2 stars); went to Jimmy Wok so S and the baby could eat a late lunch; and then I had to get my ass home so I could change into my wedding outfit (new dress gotten for a steal and white cowboy boots worn at my wedding) and get the digital camera ready. Crazy!
Man, this is why I never in a million years would've done the huge, obnoxious, extravagant, overdone wedding. I haven't the stomach for it. J. Fi said she'd already had a meltdown on Thursday and was taking Ambien to sleep. And while everyone was getting ready for the ceremony at the church J.'s mom made one of the flower girls cry! I just sat back, relaxed, snacked on pretzels, and was glad it wasn't me going through all the rigamarole! I was only in the "House Party" (S loved that we were called that) so just had to hand programs to folks and smile sweetly.
Still, after a beautiful ceremony in which I only teared up once (the male soloist sang a beautiful song called "In This Very Room" that got to me) and we hooked up with Tito J. to go to the Rice for the reception together, and a fantastic yummy meal, and more wine consumed (S sampled the mixed drinks), and much fast dancing with Tito J. and slow dancing with S to the badass band Grady Gaines and the Texas Upsetters, for some strange, unknown reason I broke out into a vicious case of the hives! One second I had dragged S out on the dance floor and we were dancing to "Let's Get It On" and the next second I was scratching my neck... my arms... my back... and had to cut the dance short to run off to the ladies room to scratch more in private. S went to get the car, Tito J. was patting me with cold wet towels, and the hotel staff went to find Benadryl. The only thing I can think of is the strawberry wedding cake had tasted kind of funny, particularly the frosting. I think there was something in that frosting!
So we split a little early b/c the hives were completely covering me except for my face and feet. I didn't get to do my last house party duty which was to hand out bubbles and rose petals but that's ok b/c I hear that part went off without a hitch. There were 4 other house party chicks to cover for me anyway.
Pic's and more later if I can find the energy!
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