Seth and I tied the knot last Saturday Oct.25th 2008... And what a beautiful EVERYTHING!!! I thought that I would be bummed about not wearing a dress but when it came down to it I am glad I didn't spend money, I don't have on one. Amazingly we got a ton of things free...Photography, Flowers, table and chair covers, the church and the pastor... no wait OUR Pastor!
Now this is how it went down. Gabriel Got sick and started throwing up on Wednesday morning, got better but then once more on Thursday morning. I thought well he must be over it and we just can't cancel the wedding. So we decided that he must be over the contagious part... right? Well you know usually you’re contagious before you even know you have it. So I thought it will be okay. Seth and I felt fine. I had butterflies all day Friday when we where setting up but I just thought that’s all it is.
We went to bed early... Thankfully Seth took Friday off... The first time he's ever taken off. I woke up at 3am. OHHH how I was thinking... NOOO more sleep. My stomach hurt, but I just thought... Nerves... stupid nerves... GO BACK TO BED Tina!!!!! I think I slept for another hour and then that’s when I knew... I knew that I had to be sick... what the hey man... why??? Why now? I waited and waited to throw up... and finally it came. I felt good enough to go back to bed. I only slept for another hour on the couch... or rather love seat... yup not comfy. And then the phone calls started to ring in. UGH stupid phone... Though I would have welcomed the calls had I not been sick.
I then spent the better part of the morning in the bathroom waiting to throw up just to feel better. Finally I feel just barely good enough to put make up on. Got the family ready and then to the church. One exit from the chruch I remembered that I forgot the rings... UGH THE RINGS!!!! We did the rehearsal... which was easy and no biggy. Then Seth took off for the rings and made it back in time to get dressed. My sister in law did my hair... OHHH what a job... it took forever and I thank her for doing it... I am sure I would have given up after the fourth curl as I was not feeling well. God mother, Sister, God father, Judi where all buzzing around getting final touches done. I sat with a smug face... Not feeling good. I felt bad as I knew I wasn't making eye contact with any one and didn't want to hug, as I didn't want to get them sick. But really if you where in my shoes... wouldn't you have done the same thing? How do you postpone with little time to do so?!
So I suck it up and stood by Seth. I held on for dear life. I was nervous I would fall over in my silly heals. Our Pastor even read one of my favorite quotes out of the bible... I was so happy about that, I didn't know he was going to say either. He even makes a joke about how I wrote him and told him what NOT to say. :) We did it; we finally tied the knot and are now officially married. OHHH thank you Lord!
We took a ton of pictures and then made it down stairs and I made my rounds with my friends... Wishing I had more time with every one of them. Blake came to us saying that she didn't feel good but we thought she was just tiered and hungry. We signed our papers and then started to look around to see that many people had left and was starting to leave. So CAKE TIME... a dreaded part for me... as I didn't even take a look at the wonderful food spread as I didn’t even want to think about food at that point. Funny thing is that I thought about the cake moment in my head a million times... how was it going to go down? Was he going to be nice? I decided I didn't care... I wasn't going to be nice... it was cake time and everyone was going to see that he had a BIG bite! I shoved a bite in and got it everywhere! Regretting it afterwards as I saw the "OHHH your going to get it" in his eyes and I knew it was my turn! I opened my mouth knowing it was hardly going to make it in. Sure enough most of it went up my nose rather then in my mouth. It was by far one of the best cakes I've had! I am not sure if it was because I hadn't eaten all day or if it was because it was truly that good. I was just informed that there was some left over. I can't wait to taste again.
About an hour after we got down stairs we got word that Blake was laying on a couch not feeling well. I made my way past about fifteen or so kids playing… what fun it looked like. Seeing her on the couch wrapped up in one of the table cloths was one of the saddest things I think I've seen. She didn't feel good and I felt bad for not taking her more seriously. Seth followed soon after and then we decided it was time to go. He stayed with her while I packed the truck as fast as I could. Poor Blake ended up throwing up and that made for a very short good bye to everyone. Forgetting only the camera and a CD we did pretty well. As soon as we made it on to the high way poor Blake throw up, our luck we had a bag in her lap. We made it home and Blake continued to be ill all through the night.
Now Seth has stayed home on the following Monday because he finally caught it. UGH... what have we done? Did we really just have everyone come out too see us and catch the flu? We feel just terrible about it! I can't believe out of all the months, weeks and days of the year we happened to have gotten the flu right then. I TELL YOU WHAT... someday I will have my honey moon... and I am NOT going to be sick for it... I will do whatever I can to MAKE SURE OF IT!!! If you are one of the people that made it to the wedding and have gotten or might get sick... I AM SOOOO SOOOOOOOO SORRY!!!!
