Miss Kelsey's wedding was last weekend and although it was a total and complete blast, there were some misadventures. Nothing too terrible but certainly funny now looking back at it.
On Friday, Regan and I met everyone over at the amphitheater for rehearsal. The wedding party practiced processing, the readers practiced reading, and then that was it No practicing with the music Why did I bring my cello over!? Luckily Regan and I didn't need to know where Blatchley was, so we tried out the acoustics in the amphitheater for a bit, figured out where I should sit and got that all sorted before going over to Simplot to help figure out what we needed to set up. My favorite part of the wedding decor was all the book features- the table setings were on old books and the name cards were on old book inserts. Love the creativity!
The next day had a few snafus at the start. I headed over to the school at noon like I was supposed to and waiting there for me was a delivery of chairs. I helped the guy bring them into the ampitheater and turns out there were 20 extra ones. I just took that to mean they threw in a few extras. How kind. I headed home and about an hour and a half later, I got a call from the chair rental company saying that they were so sorry the chairs hadn't been delivered yet. Huh?... I told them we had chairs and they called back in a bit saying that their delivery for us hadn't gone out. I told them I'd give them a call when I got to campus and went to meet Regan. Clearly they thought I was incompetant because when I got to campus, Regan was on the phone with them. She talked to them while I fielded a call from teh cupcake company and when we were both off the phone we went to investigate. I called Tracylea to see if there were any other groups on campus and she said it was just us- nobody else was on campus and would need 75 chairs. Luckily the name of the chair company was on the chairs so we called them and they confirmed that there was definitely a delivery for a Kelsey Keyes. We finally came to the conluclusion that Kelsey and Brad had maybe double-booked chairs and we told the second chair company to not deliver anything. We didn't need 130 chairs. We started to set up the 75 that we had when I got a text that they cupcakes were five minutes away. 20 minutes later, tey showed up. Thse were 20 minutes that we could have been setting up chairs. They didn't even have a total for us and Regan told me later that they charged Kelsey way less than Kelsey expected. I love discounts because of incompetancy. I finished setting up the chairs (sweating all the way), we finished setting things up in Simplot, waved at Kelsey and Brad taking pictures and finally were able to head home to change and get pretty fo thew edding. Regan came over for a small glass of wine beforehand. It was much needed.
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| our substitute for a shot of tequila or vodka |
The wedding itself was beautiful. It wasn't too hot, I wasn't too nervous playing, everything went off well except for some random person yelling something inappropriate once (Regan went after them and had campus safety on speed-dial in case it happened again). The ceremony was beautiful and we got the chairs taken down and the amphitheater cleaned up in no time flat. Then it was cocktail hours where we got a chance to take pictures with the pretty bride before things got too busy for her. The apps were delicious and all the wine and beer were local vendors and we also filled out answers for a trivia game to get us to dinner first (although technically we really wanted to get to dessert first).
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| DOMINATED trivia- except the DJ didn't always have the same answers we did.... |
My favorite parts of weddings? The D's- dancing and dessert. I eventually kicked off both my heels and my rainbows and we boogied in bare feet. Greg and Aly were my BFFs on the dance floor, and we were constantly hydrated by wine. No better way to dance. The desserts were also delicious, especially the cupcakes. We went back for seconds and thirds.
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| me and Aly |
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| it also happened to be Chris' bday |
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| C of I- Katie, Regan, me, Aly |
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| dapper Jasper |
Kelsey's little nephew was a demon on the dance floor and her wedding party put together a flash mob for them (she and Brad kept trying to jump in and then were shooed out). Great music, good old-skool hits and lots of fun.
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| K's nephew |
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| flash mob |
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| dance floor |
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| dancing fiends |
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| favorite picture of the night- McElwains and the bride |
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| CMCs for lyfe |
At the end of the party, Regan and I helped tear things down. The worst part was bringing the card catalog back into the library- it was too big and bulky and I felt like I was the walking like an ape. And it bruised my arms afterwards. But I'm so glad that I was able to help out and take care of the day-of details so that the Iverson-Long-Keyes could enjoy their wedding. Kelsey and Brad, so glad I could be part of your special day! Happy wedding!
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