Post by perumbula on Aug 10, 2014 4:13:36 GMT
It was a long, long day. I had my freak out at 10am so the rest of the day went fine. 
My feet are killing me, but I am greatful for friends and family who stepped up and helped out with everything. There was so much to be done and they just jumped in and did it for me. It was awesome. I have a ton of thank you cards to write.
My freak out was over the sewing of course. I discovered this morning that I made a mistake on one of the blouses that I have never done in 30 years of sewing. I sewed a sleeve upside down. Seriously. Upside down. I serged the seam and my dd lost my seam ripper three days ago. The groom ran a seam ripper over he borrowed from a friend so I could fix the sleeve. I fixed it. Then discovered 30 minutes later that I had made the exact same mistake. Not kidding. That's when I had my freak out. My husband tried to come and comfort me and I told him I'd be a heck of a lot more comforted if he'd go back to working on the food.
The logistics of our location were nuts. We were at our church house (cause it's free, baby.) in the gym. It's a small gym, basically half a court. So we set up 160 chairs for the ceremony which filled the room. When the ceremony was over, we had everyone stand for a picture. Then we had all our volunteers grab the chairs and move them and we rolled in 19 tables. Linens went on and then the centerpieces. Every centerpiece was different so we had each one boxed separately with an example photo in the box with it. The switch out from ceremony to dinner took less than 10 minutes. I was so amazed.
It went really well. She looked completely lovely and they were both super happy. The father daughter dance was my bawl baby moment. My husband recorded a song he wrote for our daughter before she was born. The lyrics were so appropriate for a father daughter dance it was like he wrote it just for that moment. So lovely.
we had lots of cake and lots of scones and everyone danced and seemed to have a great time.
I am so sorry I can't post pictures right now. I didn't touch a camera all day. The photographer will mail me the pictures on a thumb drive and then I will post pictures from there. It will probably be a week or so. Sorry to make you wait.
My feet are killing me, but I am greatful for friends and family who stepped up and helped out with everything. There was so much to be done and they just jumped in and did it for me. It was awesome. I have a ton of thank you cards to write. My freak out was over the sewing of course. I discovered this morning that I made a mistake on one of the blouses that I have never done in 30 years of sewing. I sewed a sleeve upside down. Seriously. Upside down. I serged the seam and my dd lost my seam ripper three days ago. The groom ran a seam ripper over he borrowed from a friend so I could fix the sleeve. I fixed it. Then discovered 30 minutes later that I had made the exact same mistake. Not kidding. That's when I had my freak out. My husband tried to come and comfort me and I told him I'd be a heck of a lot more comforted if he'd go back to working on the food.
The logistics of our location were nuts. We were at our church house (cause it's free, baby.) in the gym. It's a small gym, basically half a court. So we set up 160 chairs for the ceremony which filled the room. When the ceremony was over, we had everyone stand for a picture. Then we had all our volunteers grab the chairs and move them and we rolled in 19 tables. Linens went on and then the centerpieces. Every centerpiece was different so we had each one boxed separately with an example photo in the box with it. The switch out from ceremony to dinner took less than 10 minutes. I was so amazed.
It went really well. She looked completely lovely and they were both super happy. The father daughter dance was my bawl baby moment. My husband recorded a song he wrote for our daughter before she was born. The lyrics were so appropriate for a father daughter dance it was like he wrote it just for that moment. So lovely.
we had lots of cake and lots of scones and everyone danced and seemed to have a great time.
I am so sorry I can't post pictures right now. I didn't touch a camera all day. The photographer will mail me the pictures on a thumb drive and then I will post pictures from there. It will probably be a week or so. Sorry to make you wait.
