jethrien

Succeeded in getting to [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s wedding.

We made the 6am flight, and were down in Florida by 11am, their time. We managed to drive like crazy and catch up to the wedding party boat (they were boating around the bay, and there was a comical series of phone calls - "Which dock are you at now? Oh, you left - where are you now?")

Sidenote - We weren't the last ones there, though - one of the groomsmen got snowed in up in South Dakota. He made it, but only after a couple of days of frantically trying to get on a flight to anywhere that wasn't snowed in. (He even considered driving to Denver to get out from under the storm, to somewhere with flight options.)

Dolphins decided to give the bride and groom a wedding present - we got surrounded by a pod of 12-15 of extremely friendly and playful dolphins. They played in our wake, swam around the bow, and were frolicking almost within arm's reach. We followed them around a bit, very slowly (they could have easily gotten away if they'd wanted to), and when we finally had to go return the boats, a couple of them followed us back for quite awhile. So I guess they thought we were as much fun as we thought they were.

We had problems when we refueled the boats, though - turns out that the last time someone did maintenance, they left the bolt off the fuel tank. Bilge full of fuel from leaky tank = really bad. Fortunately, there were no explosions, and we managed to get everyone back to where they needed to be, right before the rain hit.

But that did kick off the extremely long evening of wedding crafts. I did the bouquets. Also trimmed the veil, helped put together favors, fixed the groom's Chinese robe, finished the bag for the stomping glass, made suggestions for music selections, etc. By the time I got to sleep, I'd been up for 23 hours. Also, had earned the name "wedding MacGuyver", which I'm rather proud of.

The wedding went beautifully. Plenty of stuff went slightly awry, but nothing that we weren't able to fix. The pictures are going to be awesome - we got pictures of the bride on the beach, on motor scooters, in a beach buggy, and with a hijacked mail van. (Very confused mailman - he drives around the corner by the dumpsters and OMG BRIDE!)

Also, any wedding that involves stomping glasses AND a honor guard with a saber arch AND a 9-course Chinese dinner is automatically awesome.

I'd also made a camo garter - which greatly surprised the groom - and camo butt bows for the bridesmaid dresses - which greatly surprised them both.

Anyway, in all, total success. The whole wedding party did make it there, everything important turned out beautifully, a good time was had by all. And no one got set on fire, thus fulfilling the couple's victory conditions (which were a) get married, b) no one on fire). Yay!