After greeting our guests and thanking them for celebrating with us,
we took more photos and then headed to our reception where all our
guests awaited our arrival. The reception hall was lovely with pretty
glass centerpieces filled with sparkling stones and floating candles. We
had a lovely time celebrating, dancing, kissing whenever someone sang a
song with the word "love" in it. When you have that many musicians at
one wedding, you can count on them to sing many, many songs given that
challenge! There was a lot of kissing!
We danced to Bryan Adams and Barbra Streisand singing "I Finally
Found Someone," our song. I danced with my daddy to an Elvis tune
because I grew up listening to Elvis and watching his movies with my dad. Eric danced
with his mom. I can't remember the song; I just remember the
interruption.
Remember the weather? It was hot, muggy, and thick all day? The sunny, scorching afternoon disappeared. Instead,
the wind was whipping, the thunder was screaming, and lightning struck a
near-by transformer right in the middle of Eric's dance with his mom. The lights went out, the music stopped, and
everyone became silent and began looking around as prior to that moment we were mostly oblivious that the weather had taken such a turn for the worse. About 20 minutes away, a tornado actually went
through the town of Dresden.
We kept partying. The lights came on in half of the recital hall.
The DJ moved his equipment, and we danced some more and visited with
guests. Our cake was in a dim corner with no lights, but there were a few beautiful candles on the table, and our photographer waited for the worst of the storm to pass, propped the emergency exit door open to let in some light, and you can't even tell in the cake cutting photos that the lights were out!
Around 8:00, we left. It was still raining. We headed somewhere
to change so that our friends could return Eric's tux for him, and then
we found our way to our hotel in Columbus. The main route to Columbus
was closed due to flooding, so we went through Zanesville, which was
completely out of the way, and, even then, we had to take a couple
different roads due to flooding or fallen trees from the storm. We
stayed at the Hyatt in downtown Columbus that night before heading to
Tennessee the next morning.
It was a perfect day. Sure, there was extreme heat, humidity, sweating, flooding, lightning and rain. One
bridesmaid almost passed out from a migraine. Eric's eyeglass lens fell
out of his frames part-way through the ceremony, so he was half-blind
until someone fixed them after the wedding. Someone ran to Walmart to
purchase a new video camera 30 minutes before the ceremony because one
of the cameras stopped working at just that moment (they kept that under wraps from the bride until AFTER the problem was fixed. Smart thinking). Something always happens, right?
I think that's part of the beauty of the day. It was perfect. It was everything I wanted it to be. It was one of the most special days of my life.
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