April 29th 2005

IT DID NOT RAIN! Hoooray!

Alex and I were ever so greatful that it didn't rain. We both agreed that it must have been our request to my dad to keep the rain from falling if possible. Hehehe.

However, the day did not go without incident. Hmmm...I guess I should start out in chronilogical order:

1) We got lost going to Cantigny Park for photos. The directions we printed out lead us right to a dead end. It didn't make it any better that we had three cars following our car....once, we made a wrong turn and decided to pull into a parking lot and back out on the road. 3 out of the four cars manuvered just fine. My mother must have taken a tour of the parking lot as she took 10 minutes to get back out. We waited for her on the side of the road. Eventually, our wonderful photographer (Jessica) got us to the park. Alex and I are not doing Google directions ever again.

2) After the photos at Cantigny, we realized we'd forgotten to grab our marriage license at the house. We decide to send his parents to the house to pick it up. This creates confusion as now, people are trying to coordinate who should ride with whom and to where, and what roads to take (cause we got lost getting there, we were also going to be lost on the return). Long story short...only one car should have gone back to the house...not three.

3) Late clergy. An hour late! I wasn't a nervous bride till our clergy got caught in traffic, without a cell phone. We were very close to calling EJ's father in at the last minute. Argh. Once the clergy arrived, everything else fell into place.

Everyone had a good time and the food was all eaten up which is always a good sign! Our vows were beautiful, and no, we did not cry.

We got some beautiful pictures as well...and those were just taken by the family. Can't wait to see the professional ones!