I am now officially Mrs. Cundiff and despite what some people think, it isn't always best to be the first!!! The day was absolutely perfect, despite one major mishap. I was up pretty early that morning as my mind went crazy with everything that laid ahead of us that day. Brienna was up around 6:30am and the other two were up not long after that. As Gary got the kids some breakfast, I went to pick up some single roses for the mothers during the ceremony. By the time I got back he had the car loaded up with everything that need to go over to the community center. My parent's showed up and my mom stayed with the kids and my dad came with us to set up. We had everything set up and ready by 10:30am which was not bad since we weren't in there until 8:45am. We went back to the house and the hair and makeup began. She had all that completed just in time for me to get the kids ready after they got back from their birthday party. Rylee got dressed first so that Patricia (my friend and hairdresser) could do her hair and then get on to work. They all looked so incredibly cute in their pretty dresses and fancy tux!
I got dressed and we loaded up to head over. We had to be there by 2:30pm to start taking pictures. The rest of the family met us there and that took about an hour. Everyone was waiting in the room, and as we started to wait for things to begin we realized the closer and closer we got to 4pm there still was no Pastor. We started calling to find out if he was lost, checking email to see if he emailed about an emergency, and still nothing. Officially the panic began. We started weighing our options, when my wonderful aunt came up to me to let me know that she is registered as an officiant. We started getting her ready to proceed with the ceremony. During that time someone called from our Pastor's office to let us know that he was in a bad accident on the way. I felt horrible for being upset. (He did email me this morning, and he is home and just a bit sore) My aunt took about 20 minutes to write down her notes, and I went to get in place to get the party started.
My dad walked me down the aisle and all the stress seriously melted away. I saw Gary standing there and my butterflies were gone. We got to the part in which we were to read each other our vows and as I started mine I immediately started to cry. He read me his, and of course that made me cry just a little more. The whole ceremony lasted about 15 minutes and we were pronounced Mr. & Mrs. Gary Cundiff :)
We ate, had our first dance, cut the cake, danced with our guests, and before I knew it it was time to go! My brother and Tara were TREMENDOUS helps getting all the dishes cleaned and Cara and Jamie got all the tables cleaned off. We had everything cleaned up and loaded back in the car in an hour.
A bunch of us met back at our house, we changed, and went out to REALLY celebrate the evening. The kids went with the grandparents. I didn't eat much of anything that day, so the couple shots and few drinks had me pretty toasted. We got home around 1am, and since I had been up since 4am on Saturday that was pretty impressive.
Overall the day was everything I could have hoped for. Even the mishap with the pastor did not spoil the most perfect wedding ever. Besides it is so much more special to me to have a family member marry us. I look forward to spending the rest of my life being Mrs. Gary Cundiff :)
Of course I will post some better pics when I get them back from the photographer. These are a collection of the ones that everyone has sent me since Saturday.
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