My Brother is a Married Man

So yeah... my little brother has been made an honest man and has taken Maureen to be his lawfully wedded wife.

So Thursday of last week was the rehearsal dinner. It was annoying a bit since no invitations were sent out ahead of time I didn't realize they were parting with convention and doing it Thursday instead of Friday night. This caused me to have to cancel hanging out with (and fixing the computer of) my ex Chad. We'll reschedule eventually but it's been too long.

The rehearsal was good, but I really didn't like the wedding coordinator. She had a very quick and impatient personality that just didn't make me feel that she cared about the way the wedding went as opposed to the paycheck at the end. She struck me as a person who would take a checklist, check off all the items as they were accomplished and care not whether they were done in such a way as to acheive the end goal fully. Can you tell she irked me? She decided that the brother of the bride and I needed to almost run down the side isles after walking up the grandmothers up. Hello! The audience is waiting. You don't need to have us run and ruin the picture of the stately wedding procedings. Anyways....

The dinner was good. I toasted Jon and got him to tear up a bit and I gave him Superman cufflinks. Now you have to understand that he is a MAJOR Superman fan. He's got tons of stuff and he mentioned when we got the tuxes that it'd be cool to have Superman cufflinks.

Fast foward to the wedding. I arrive at the hotel at about 4pm, change, get unofficial pictures with the groomsmen and then off to the wedding. We were all worried that we were late (we were supposed to be there at 4:30 to get flowers etc done and then be ready to usher people in) since we were getting there about 4:40. We needn't have worried. The florist didn't get there until 4:50 and the coordinator didn't get there until 5:00. Add to that the fact that the priest was taking 4pm Mass right up through about 5:05. That's just lovely with a 5:15 wedding.

We finally seat everyone and she's (the coordinator) after us to hurry up and finish since we're running late. I'm sorry, was I supposed to get the gong to get the priest of the alter? In all her rush she neglects to signal the music to start but they start without her. Since she assumed that since they were going rogue once that they'd go rogue again, she sent the grandmother's down the aisle at the next song. Then she is frantically waving me down the aisle (that I'm already walking at a brisk pace) to essentially run back. Little did she realize that it was filler music until she signaled them to start the processional music (you know.... umm... her job?). At this point the music people notice that they were playing the wrong music and came down to talk to her and we end up closing the doors and waiting for the entirety of Panis Angelicus to be played and the whole point of her rushing us is now completely nullified. *sigh*

From this point we process down the aisle, Jonathan is there waiting, Maureen comes up and they get married. Much more orderly cuz the priest was in charge.

Abreviated Wedding rites (in other words not a full mass).... how nice.

Off to the Reception for pictures.

We finish pictures and get corralled into a waiting room. Oh joy.... Private food platters. Woohoo! Free drinks! JOY! Waiting for almost an hour to go out.... boo.

We go out, we sit, the newlyweds dance their dance. We then get the salad course, they eventually cut the cake. Lots of dancing. Finally the parental dances. Then more dancing. Lots of drinking. The families all get along. Hallelujah.

All in all a fantastic wedding and Jon and Maureen, I wish you the best.