Wedding #2...

How many people get to have two weddings? Not many. As for as much work and stress as this was... it was a total BLAST. It was so cool to be able to have two totally different weddings... and I commemorated that by having two different dresses and two different hair styles. FUN!
The rehearsal:
It was hilarious because the priest kept getting Tony's name wrong. It was Toby and Tommy for awhile and then at the wedding he used Jose. People in the pews were SO confused!!!

The Wedding Ceremony:
Total Catholic tradition... and on top of that, total Polish tradition. The mass was even in Polish, except for the actual "marriage" portion (whew... I might have been saying "I do" to some stuff I didn't agree with!). It was really long, as per Catholica standards, but not knowing what was being said made it even longer. I felt bad for Tony and all the other non-Polish speakers, because I'm sure it was worse for them. I can understand some words here and there, but sheesh...

After the ceremony:
It was a gray and rainy day, so we couldn't go to the pretty park we originally wanted to get out pictures taken. Since we've technically already got "wedding" pictures (from wedding #1), I thought we should have some fun and get our pictures taken somewhere totallu UN-traditional. We thought maybe WalMart, or a bowling alley, but we decided on an old Irish Pub. Way fun!!!

Reception:
WOW! The room looked AWESOME! And let me tell you, these Polish folks are PARTIERS!!! Man oh man. Things didn't even START to happen until like 9 p.m. Way past MY bedtime. I stuck it out though... and at 1 a.m. when the place turned the lights back on, those folks were STILL dancing their hearts out. Whew! The food was fantastic as well. Apps, soup, salad, pasta, main dish (chiken breast & filet combo with green beans and new potatoes), ice cream, wedding cake and a whole sweets table to munch off of the rest of the night.

All in all it was a huge success... thanks to the hard work of the fam back in MI... I pretty much didn't have to do anything (a few things here and there... but nothing too crazy) except deal with "politics" and typical pre-wedding stress.

Needless to say... it's nice to be back to a "normal" routine... nice that my house didn't burn down and nice to look forward to nothing on the calendar! Tony and I even agreed to keep the holidays very low key. Our gift to eachother is the re-model. I think that's a good gift! I surely don't want to stress out about Christmas shopping and all of that business! KEEP IT SIMPLE SILLY!

It will be 2008 before we know it.

Thanks to my loyal readers for the well wishes and postive energy coming this way. It was a crazy year, 2007!