Weddings: Closed for the season

First, there was Sean and Elina's wedding on July 15th. I was super excited for my friends and I had the honour of singing with a couple of friends during the ceremony. During the reception, at The Bedford House, Mike was interrogated by a couple of old friends of mine. It actually stressed me out something fierce but I knew they were only doing it because they care. But that didn't stop me from making a bathroom trip only at the last possible moment. We also got to go on a wine tour at Domain du Chaberton so now we are educated in the ways of properly drinking and examining wine. They have some good stuff there kids.

We followed that wedding up the very next weekend, July 22nd, with Shannon (Mike's cousin) and J.P.'s wedding. A lot of people came up to me with the opening line of "You must be Lindsey! Hi, I'm Aunty (insert various names here). Good to meet you!" Ok, so there were only 3 aunts but there were other cousins and family friends and spare relatives. It was a fun wedding and everything was beautiful. The receiving line was an adventure. Mike was the first one through and, without really realizing it, he had power-walked his way down the line which had left me running behind him in heals, trying to keep up. I shook hands and offered congratulations to the bride and groom and the bride's mom (an Aunt moment). And then I literally waved and said 'hi' to the rest of the bridal party, all on account of trying to catch up to Mike. The MC at their reception(at the Croation Cultural Center) was quite a guy. Mike and named him Gary, rotund Gary with the Coke-bottle glasses who said inappropriate things but never realized it. His most famous line was as he was going to start the night up (fyi: this wedding was open bar) he said "Now that we've had the chance to lubricate for this special event..." and then I checked out and tried not to laugh too loud. Oh Gary.

Then, wrapping wedding season up, we had Amanda and Jason's wedding this past weekend, August 12th. They had asked Mike and I to set up their reception at Cenntenial Lodge in Queen's Park, seeing as how sometimes I like to pretend I'm Martha and Mike is a hard-worker. So after we stopped by the bride's head-quarters to pick up supplies we made it to the lodge around 10:20am. Then the man who opened the lodge for us talked our ear off for a good 15-25 minutes, playing 20 questions. Then we unloaded everything and set up for an hour and a half. Then we stopped for a quick lunch because, although I don't remember chewing, driving stick and eating is never a good idea. Dropped Mike off at 1, got to my house at 1:10, threw on clothes and left, picked Mike up at 1:25, got to the church at 1:32 (the ceremony was scheduled for 1:30), and breathed a small sigh of relief as it started late. It was a fantastic ceremony. Very them and very awesome. After the ceremony was over we cut in the receiving line to say congrats to the new couple and then drove to the bride's HQ to load up again. Managed to stop at Starbucks as I was in great need of a coffee. Got to the lodge again to work like a couple of rabid marmots and set things up and it was all done in time. We even had a few spare moments to cool off on the deck while people arrived and before I tracked down my own personal corkscrew and uncorked 22 bottles of wine in under 5 minutes, while someone lit candles and someone else haded out bubbles. Whew! The reception was a blast and later Mike impressed everyone with his dancing skills. Amanda impressed everyone with her hot hot hot skills. Heather was a bridesmaid and impressed everone with her singing skills (of course) and her own hot skills. All in all, so much fun and I'm so happy for them both.

I'm also so happy that Wedding Season has come to a close. It was great while it lasted but I'm ready for a nap.