The Wedding

Kelly almost didn’t make it…

Kelly, Haley, and Christy Z were supposed to arrive in St. Augustine, FL at 9:30am on Saturday morning.  Saturday morning I woke up to two texts.  One was at 5 something am from Kelly, stating that she had some weird illness, Christy didn’t have a seat on the flight, and they weren’t going to let them board the plane.  Around 6 something am I had a text from Haley saying “We are seriously off schedule and don’t know when we’ll be there.”  

When I woke up around 9am I called Kelly’s cell phone.  She answered, and said she was somewhere in Indianapolis at a hospital, by herself.  Kelly said she started feeling dizzy at the airport, was seeing black spots, got really hot, and felt better when she went to the bathroom.  I told her that sounds like when I’m having anxiety.  She said she wasn’t diagnosed yet but the doctors had run a million tests and all came back with nothing.  The last test they were waiting on was a urinary tract infection.

Kelly was apparently down an all fours at the terminal when they finally called the paramedics.  The paramedics said they would not let Kelly board the plane until she saw a doctor, so she left by ambulance to a hospital.  At this time, they had found Christy a seat on the plane, but they all missed the flight due to Kelly and her condition.  

Haley stayed at the airport because she was my violinist for the wedding.  She said she felt like she had to go.  Christy and Haley got assigned new flights from Indy to North Carolina to Jacksonville.  At this time, none of them knew if Kelly would even be making the wedding.  

THE BEST PART ABOUT THIS STORY:  Kelly arrived in Florida before Haley and Christy!!!!!  The doctors diagnosed her with a caffeine induced panic attack, a nurse drove her back to the airport, and she flew from Indy to Washington DC to Jacksonville and arrived before the other two did! Hahahahahahahah

Food…

The entire bottom tier of my cake was not cut into.  Luckily I had a full size fridge in my room so we took it back there.  I had planned on taking it on the pirate ship, but I forgot to do so.  So Monday morning I still had a huge, untouched cake in my fridge that I needed to do something with.  After working at Papa’s Pantry, I did NOT want any good food to go to waste!!!  Ryan’s uncle Marshall only had a 2 hour drive back to his house so I asked him if he wanted to take it into his office the next day.  He said he would.  He later decided, unbeknownst to me, that it would melt before he got it home.  So he and his daughter took it to a nearby homeless shelter and gave it to them.  They were so excited to receive it!  It was Memorial Day and they have lots of Vets staying with them and they said this would be a great way to celebrate!  That made me feel really good.

After the pirate ship, we had even more food left over.  There were a ridiculous amount of huge trays of everything from veggies, fruit, cold cuts, and cheese, to finger sandwiches and shrimp!  Again, I did not want anything to go to waste.  I tried pawning off trays too all our guests, but no one had full size fridges like we did.  A few people took trays but we still had 5-7 left.  We kept them in our fridge overnight, and then I insisted Ryan and DJ Jason walk them around down town until they found homeless people to give them to, which they did.  This made me very happy again.

The Wedding…  

The wedding was perfect – no problems, no hiccups, no nothing.  I couldn’t have asked for anything to have gone differently =)