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So I get on a plane Thursday night to be here on Friday for my dad's birthday. I get picked up from the airport by Kelly Cabs (an El dorado from the 70 with the inside roof cover stapled to the roof) and get to the folks place at 7:45 am. Everyone is barely awake. I hung out with the step sister who isn't getting married, the half sister of theirs who is cool , the bride who is being referred to as Bridezilla by her mother, and the step bro. We are all in the same room at the same time which is a first as I am rarely here with all of them. We get yelled at as Bridezilla is complaining about her Uncle and how she doesn't want him at the wedding and step mom yells at her and it is all a big mess. But we eventually end up going to the hotel at 6pm to go to a 7 pm rehearsal then dinner to follow. At 6:45 I get a call saying we were supposed to be at the rehearsal at 6:30pm! We are late! We arrive at 7:15 and the rehearsal takes place in the dark in a field and by the hall's garbage binds which smell like rotting cheese! So we go see the tent for the dinner and there are spiders the size of quarters under the tables and the dance floor. Not a happy bride or groom for that. Then it is off to a nice dinner and Birthday celebration for the couple and my dad respectively. It went well. The baby cousin who is a junior bride's maid looks 18 when she is really 13. Kinda scary. The party goes well. Off to bed to get rest for the big day!
Woken up at 9 am as I am still on CA time so that is 6 am for me. Get dressed and go have breakfast with dad. Come back to room to find it invaded by brides maids and hair and make up people. I get my make up done as no one else is doing it. I go next door to ask about hair and I get told to wait for Sue, who did my hair for my wedding 6+ years ago. I think that's cool. So I hang out and watch everyone and they are so cute. Then Sue comes and she freaks as I have a lot of hair"You have a frigging lot of hair, Damn girl" she says. I ask for an up do as this is a wedding and it would look nice with my dress(yes I found one). She takes an hour but it looks great! (I think it looked better then every one in the bridal party! Sue rocks!) I ask how I am getting to the wedding and I get told, "I don't know. Ask some one." I kid you not. So I ask Sue as I know she will be going later. So no family pictures, no pics with the bride, nada. Kinda sucks. So I watched Moonstruck with the girl who did everyone else's hair as her guy worked for my step mom and she is a friend of the family.
So I go and everyone is waiting around and no one is seating people. Weird, so I say hi to my father's siblings who are there. We sit in the third row and no one sits in the second row so we had a great view of everything. The ceremony was written by the bride and groom and had reading by my dad, step sister who wasn't getting married and her friend. It was weird to me but again the couple looked so happy.
Next was a 2 1/2 hour cocktail hour and hor'deraves. I had about 5 cosmos as everyone kept ordering them for me and well they are yummy and I wasn't driving... I talked to the aunts and uncle the whole time. It was kinda cool. The it was dinner time. Now we get ready to sit down and there aren't enough chairs at our table. This sets the mood for the rest of the evening for this part of my family. They already feel slighted as their kids weren't invited to this shin dig, but business associates of the step mother's were. Now their table gets screwed up and it is in the back also. Well the friend who is helping coordinate this fixes it as best as she can, God Bless her. But the damage is done. They all stay till about 1045 pm and leave before the cake is cut and don't say good bye. It is bad. But that is not all, oh no.
So the uncle that Bridezilla didn't want to invite does come and gets so drunk he has to be carried out and forgets his son. No one knows where the son is and every one thinks he's at the hotel. But no, he had gone to the car to sleep and had told his dad who said okay. The kid wakes up at 2 am, and walks down to the local Wal-mart about 2 miles from the restaurant and gets picked up by the cops. The cops figure out where he belongs, brings him to then hotel and after finding his father flat on the floor of the bathroom, takes him to my folks room. He then call CPS on the uncle. The uncle acts like nothing happened the next day. Step mom offered to take care of the kid till uncle gets help (as this is not the first time the kid has been left in NJ) and the uncle storms out and drives back to NY.
Also a young cousin gets drunk and throws up during the reception. He was sneaking everyone's drinks. Oh well hope he learns never mix your drinks!
So then it is sunday everyone is having issues and getting over them, I am just floating like always when I am here. I made the happy couple a wedding sampler which they liked. They got tons of gifts and TONS of money! They went to Hawaii for their honeymoon. Monday was spent cleaning up and getting ready for #1 nephew's birthday party and getting some work down for having the last 7 months being half at work and half wedding planning. I spent the day riding along and just enjoying being away from CA for a bit.
Tuesday finished packing to go home, and got last minute gifts for Nephew. While waiting for father at one of his business stops, I get a call from the airlines. MY flight is delayed and did I want to go out of NYC? Can't as we have this party for the nephew. So they say how about we fly you out in the am tomorrow? COOL! So I leave on the 10 am flight to go home. I will miss a day of work which kinda sucks, but I will survive some how. I get home and have dinner with toymaker and les and brian. Not to bad a trip in all. I may have a pic of me from the wedding, but I don't know yet. We shall see. Long weekend squeezed in to short time span, over all a good wedding. See you can meet some one on Match.Com(I kid you not, that is where they met!) Well I should go to bed as I need to get up and be ready for the cab at 8 :30 am and it is about 2 am right now. Good night all.
Woken up at 9 am as I am still on CA time so that is 6 am for me. Get dressed and go have breakfast with dad. Come back to room to find it invaded by brides maids and hair and make up people. I get my make up done as no one else is doing it. I go next door to ask about hair and I get told to wait for Sue, who did my hair for my wedding 6+ years ago. I think that's cool. So I hang out and watch everyone and they are so cute. Then Sue comes and she freaks as I have a lot of hair"You have a frigging lot of hair, Damn girl" she says. I ask for an up do as this is a wedding and it would look nice with my dress(yes I found one). She takes an hour but it looks great! (I think it looked better then every one in the bridal party! Sue rocks!) I ask how I am getting to the wedding and I get told, "I don't know. Ask some one." I kid you not. So I ask Sue as I know she will be going later. So no family pictures, no pics with the bride, nada. Kinda sucks. So I watched Moonstruck with the girl who did everyone else's hair as her guy worked for my step mom and she is a friend of the family.
So I go and everyone is waiting around and no one is seating people. Weird, so I say hi to my father's siblings who are there. We sit in the third row and no one sits in the second row so we had a great view of everything. The ceremony was written by the bride and groom and had reading by my dad, step sister who wasn't getting married and her friend. It was weird to me but again the couple looked so happy.
Next was a 2 1/2 hour cocktail hour and hor'deraves. I had about 5 cosmos as everyone kept ordering them for me and well they are yummy and I wasn't driving... I talked to the aunts and uncle the whole time. It was kinda cool. The it was dinner time. Now we get ready to sit down and there aren't enough chairs at our table. This sets the mood for the rest of the evening for this part of my family. They already feel slighted as their kids weren't invited to this shin dig, but business associates of the step mother's were. Now their table gets screwed up and it is in the back also. Well the friend who is helping coordinate this fixes it as best as she can, God Bless her. But the damage is done. They all stay till about 1045 pm and leave before the cake is cut and don't say good bye. It is bad. But that is not all, oh no.
So the uncle that Bridezilla didn't want to invite does come and gets so drunk he has to be carried out and forgets his son. No one knows where the son is and every one thinks he's at the hotel. But no, he had gone to the car to sleep and had told his dad who said okay. The kid wakes up at 2 am, and walks down to the local Wal-mart about 2 miles from the restaurant and gets picked up by the cops. The cops figure out where he belongs, brings him to then hotel and after finding his father flat on the floor of the bathroom, takes him to my folks room. He then call CPS on the uncle. The uncle acts like nothing happened the next day. Step mom offered to take care of the kid till uncle gets help (as this is not the first time the kid has been left in NJ) and the uncle storms out and drives back to NY.
Also a young cousin gets drunk and throws up during the reception. He was sneaking everyone's drinks. Oh well hope he learns never mix your drinks!
So then it is sunday everyone is having issues and getting over them, I am just floating like always when I am here. I made the happy couple a wedding sampler which they liked. They got tons of gifts and TONS of money! They went to Hawaii for their honeymoon. Monday was spent cleaning up and getting ready for #1 nephew's birthday party and getting some work down for having the last 7 months being half at work and half wedding planning. I spent the day riding along and just enjoying being away from CA for a bit.
Tuesday finished packing to go home, and got last minute gifts for Nephew. While waiting for father at one of his business stops, I get a call from the airlines. MY flight is delayed and did I want to go out of NYC? Can't as we have this party for the nephew. So they say how about we fly you out in the am tomorrow? COOL! So I leave on the 10 am flight to go home. I will miss a day of work which kinda sucks, but I will survive some how. I get home and have dinner with toymaker and les and brian. Not to bad a trip in all. I may have a pic of me from the wedding, but I don't know yet. We shall see. Long weekend squeezed in to short time span, over all a good wedding. See you can meet some one on Match.Com(I kid you not, that is where they met!) Well I should go to bed as I need to get up and be ready for the cab at 8 :30 am and it is about 2 am right now. Good night all.
