Rachi and Chris Are Married!

Friday night, my bestest friend in the whole world got married! No surprise, I couldn’t sleep Thursday night due to my excitement. The amazing Thanksgiving meal Bryan’s mom made didn’t help either. My body: why on earth would you eat all that food if we weren’t going to run a marathon? I was also flipping out because there was a giant cyst on my chin threatening to make its way to the surface.

I woke up 6:30 Friday morning, exercised, did everything I could to shrink the zit. When I got to my parents, I took a short nap. Applied more green tea to the zit. Surprisingly, everything i did worked. Then I got a call from the hair place. They moved my appointment 45 minutes later. I ended up getting my hair and markup done after Krissy. She took forever. It was 2:40 by the time I got out and we had to be at the venue at 3.

We were like 7 minutes late and apparently everyone was already freaking out looking for me. We took pictures and hung out while we waited for the ceremony to start. Rachi looked beautiful. Her dress was absolutely perfect on her. The ceremony was outside, so we were freezing a little, but really it was so much warmer than it has been, so once again we lucked out with the weather.

Omg their vows. I just kept repeating, I’m not going to cry, I’m not going to cry, I don’t think this makeup is waterproof, I’m not going to cry. Considering it’s still on, it probably was waterproof, but I managed to hold back the tears.

After much difficulty bustling the dress, it was time for cocktail hour and cocktails we had. Probably a little too fast though. My body was all: woah, I haven’t had anything in hours and now you’re stuffing me with wine and fried goodness? I don’t know how I feel about this.

I’m glad I had the one drink before my speech though. Even with that I was shaking like a leaf. Public speaking is not my thing. Then came more food! Really good food. The salad was really good, but the salmon, wow. They put it in front of me and I’m like, how the hell am I supposed to eat all of this? But I di d.. Almost anyway. And dessert. Dude, their wedding cake was so dense and moist. And ice cream!

As good as the food was, we definitely had the most fun burning it off. Dancing is so much more fun with alcohol. Rachi gave me a shot :p even my parents danced a little. The highlight of the evening was the time warp. Good times. We spent the night laughing at Carolyn’s endless supply of energy. Well, maybe if I had gotten a good night sleep and didn’t exercise that morning, I too could have been an energizer bunny, but she was really quite impressive.

I was sad when it was all over :( such a good time. But I was also exhausted and a little nauseous. My parents drove me home and we picked up my car the next morning. It was all, aw, this was where the fun happened :( Carolyn and Rachi both need to get married again.