Kissing the Blarney Stone

That's one thing that my brother and his new wife have no intention of doing while they are in Ireland for their honeymoon. Their flight left at 6:00 this morning.
At any rate, the wedding went very well. Unfortunately there were very few attractive single guys there, and the ones who were there are related to me. Ha ha ha... But seriously--the ceremony was beautiful, the food was great and now MY BABY BROTHER IS MARRIED! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
There were many crazy & entertaining things happening before, during and after the wedding. Here's a short list:
1. On Sunday night, the guys at the bachelor party called us during the bachelorette party numerous times, begging us to come join their party--so the bachelorette party went on the road and joined the bachelor party.
2. On Monday, during the wedding rehearsal, their was a woman in the rose garden picking the roses despite the signs that say "Do not pick the roses." Becca's mom politely asked her to stop. Later we saw her picking the roses again, and Becca's mom ended up calling the police and getting into an argument with the woman. Fortunately, Becca's cousins kept her calm enough that we didn't have to worry about the mother of the bride being sent to jail the day before the wedding.
3. On Tuesday, when we were all getting dressed, the snap on the halter strap of my dress came unsnapped twice before we even left the hotel room. Fortunately, Becca's sister is an expert with safety pins and we were therefore able to avoid a wardrobe malfunction of Janet Jackson proportions.
4. Becca, her sister, her cousin and I (the bride and three out of four attendants) were about five minutes late and Becca's uncles kept calling to find out where we were because he was worried about the wedding starting late. Once we arrived, we had to wait another FORTY minutes to start the wedding because Becca's mother was running late. This wouldn't have been a problem except that Becca's father was with her. It's usually difficult to begin without the father of the bride. When they finally arrived, Becca had already been getting ready to start without them and was just going to have one of her uncles walk her down the aisle. The people who were waiting apparently got so bored that some of them busted out books from their pockets, and if I had to guess, my dad probably fell asleep.
5. During the reception, I was able to strong-arm my dad into dancing with me for the father/daughter dance. YAY!
6. After the reception, we were an hour late getting cleaned up and out of the building. Ironically enough, if Becca's parents had been on time, we probably would have been out of the building on time.
7. After all was cleaned up and moved and unloaded, the best man and I were the last two to arrive downtown for the "after party" for the wedding party. Before I arrive, apparently one of the bridesmaids had been kicked out because she was TOO drunk. So they put her in a taxi and sent her home. After I arrived she started calling Becca's cousin and telling him that he had to wait for her to get back or she would do harm to him (I won't specify what...) Keep in mind that this bridesmaid is MARRIED but wants to hang out with Becca's single cousin. A little while later she called back and said that she had fallen down outside the building and chipped her tooth, so her husband had to come and pick her up. I feel really bad for her, but hopefully she'll remember not to drink so much in the future...
8. My cousin Linnea and I decided to leave the others because they wanted to go to another bar, but we were hungry and not drinking. So we went back to the Eldorado to eat and my cousin Jordan kept calling Linnea's phone about every five minutes. Every time, he would say the same thing: Where are you guys? Linnea told him we were at the Eldorado and tell him to come join us and he said okay... Then five minutes later he'd call again and the conversation would repeat itself. Jordan never showed up before I left downtown, but I stayed to make sure that Linnea got safely to her dad's car.
9. The morning after (yesterday morning...) I received a phone call from Becca's cousin Bridget saying that they couldn't find her cousin Elisa and they were wondering if she was with Jordan. They had to pack up her stuff and check her out of her hotel room because they didn't know where she was. Elisa finally turned up at about noon which was about the same time that Linnea called me to tell me that Jordan had been picked up alone sometime that morning... But apparently they were together all night until Jordan got picked up.

And that is the crazy wedding adventure... It was a lot of fun, but I am SOOOOOOO glad that it is over!