Weddings always make me cry

Last saturday I went to my friends TerryLee and Ben's wedding. It was something I had been looking forward to for quite sometime, pretty much since their engagement party in 2007, and then when they first picked a wedding date (and then changed it for reasons I won't go into because they are pretty personal.) I had also attended TerryLee's first engagement party to her previous fiance, Rob. I'm not sure why that is important because not everyone knows the story behind how Ben and TerryLee got together. The wedding was rather small and that was not surprising to me, after the fall out with what happened with Rob, they weren't left with a lot of friends from Dominos, Rob and Ben both worked there. This wedding was gorgeous, TerryLee's dress was amazing and cheap apparently! but it was so so beautiful, and the wedding was sweet, and it made me cry, but honestly I cry at all weddings. I just wish I had managed to get some better pictures but a lot of the time the photographer got in the way, stupid photographer. However this wedding was not without it's hiccups. 

And Oh boy, were they big hiccups. Firstly my best friend happens to be a good friend of Ben and TerryLee's as well and he was supposed to be Ben's best man, however he is currently in England, and couldn't come back for it. Which is another post in itself. Then the original date was pushed back due to issues that I won't go into but it looked a bit bad for Ben back then as his new best man Kennedy's wife was due to have their baby that same day. However in a sad way the crisis was averted and Kenny stayed on as best man for this new wedding date. Except not. He pulled out of being in the wedding TWO days before it was due to take place. But TerryLee's friend Shane did a smashing job of taking over for him. 

He made the best best man speech ever. He talked quite sweetly about Ben and TerryLee, and said that Ben wanted to remind everyone that the new Star Trek movie was coming out on the 7th of May and that if people want to know how Ben and TerryLee got together, they should watch the Bold and the Beautiful, which made those of us that knew the story laugh a lot, because Ben used to be Rob's housemate and best friend, and TerryLee was Rob's fiance, and there was a little or a lot of falling in love there.

I didn't really get to the see the cake though because they did it at the bridal table and I was on table 10 so very far away. Speaking of being on table 10, the MC when it was time to get the meals said wedding table, then table 1, then 2 and 3, then 4 and 5, then 6 and 7, then 8 and 9 and didn't mention 10. he did the exact same for the dessert as well. I also had a few to drink, and I was at a table with a lot of people I didn't know but I still had fun. However my camera had been playing up during the day when I was taking my nine million photos, so when it got to the reception and I really wanted to take some decent pictures of them dancing and what not, my camera was like LOL YOU HAVE TO PLAY WITH THE SETTINGS FIRST AND THEN I WILL DIE ON YOU. So I didn't get a single decent one at the reception. sigh. But the Photographer got some decent ones, including one of me in my dress (new) which was in a full skirt type way because I was doing the bus stop and was midspin.

I took Melissa along for my date. Notice how much taller she is then me, and that she had to take her heels off to be that much shorter but still taller, I interrupted my wedding talk to point that out, also I took along a pink and a black corset handbag that matched the top part of Melissa's dress. Ain't we such a pretty couple. People kept asking me what my tattoo meant too and apparently they even asked TerryLee, she told me about it the next Monday when I saw her. Anyways Melissa was late to the wedding, she snuck in as TerryLee was walking down the aisle. But luckily I was sitting in the second last row, so not a lot people saw her sneaky entrance into the church, which was rather small. That is pretty much the entire church in the picture behind me and Melissa.

I also very nearly brought and wore the same dress that Ben's mother was wearing. How embarrassing right? In shocking news too, well not all that shocking, Melissa's aunt was the celebrant and so Melissa's Cousin Alicia was there and so was her friend Jordan. Now I know I drunk a lot and was dancing which I don't normally do sober, but Jordan was just dressed in a very low cut at the boobs, high cut at the thighs dress, and wedges and was dancing in such a way that I could see her on a table top or in front of a pole, sooo not appropriate for a wedding, a wedding of people you don't know that well! But all in all it was a wonderful day!