Our Wedding Story

Finish sewing the dresses at 2 am.  Fall into bed and worry about ironing them tomorrow.  Janice says she will do it.

By morning we are all tired and trying to get ready at once. I am wondering if Karen, my friend from work will arrive with the wedding cake.  She is making the cake and last I talked to her was in her hospital bed two days before.  She was having problems with her heart tacking out and was hospitalized 4 days before during work.  Sheri says she will call her and make sure it's all okay.  Tay is running around in his tux the first one ready looking all handsome and all.  So we tell him he is distracting and tell him to leave.  Then we all confuse each other while we figure out who is going to ride with who to the chapel because I need Tay's Aztek to fit my fluffy dress in and we have to pick up his mother.   Finally we decide that he takes my car and I take his.   He leaves.

We are all getting ready, it's going smooth. Tay calls and reminds us not to forget the marriage license.  Whew, close call cuz we would have for sure.  I look at the clock and it's 2:20 pm.  Supposed to be at the chapel at 2:30.  Truly runs over the list....something old, something new, something borrowed.....borrowed?  I have nothing borrowed.  I was supposed to borrow a slip from a woman at work but it didn't fit so  the nurse there bought me one for a wedding gift.   Trying not to panic.  We can't figure out anything that girls have that I can borrow and take down the aisle with me.  Finally I ask Janice if I can borrow a dollar and I put the dollar in my shoe.  Now it's 2:35.  Now I know I'm already late for my own wedding and trying to stay calm. 

We finally all leave and head for the chapel.  I can't remember what street the Comstock in on and the chapel is on the 16th floor of the Comstock.  We just head for downtown and figure the building is tall and we will see it.  Well, it is tall but the buildings all around it are taller and we can't find it.  We are driving all around downtown laughing and searching.....now it's 2:45 pm....wonder if Tay thinks I am not gonna show...LOL   Finally we pull up to a light and we can't figure out how to roll the windows down in Tay's car....I am waving frantically and banging on the windows to get the attention of the driver next to me.   Finally they notice us and Janice figures out how to roll the window down.  Luckily they are locals and know what street the Comstock is on.  We arrive, Janice lets me out and goes to find parking for the car.  I see Tay looking thru the glass doors and he is smiling.  Sheri runs up and says I have a surprise inside.  I walk in, I try to focus on a face...it looks like Jerry but it can't be....IT IS!  AND CHERYL! 

Now we start bringing the wedding party up to the 16th floor a little at a time to do a quick, who walks where with who thing.  We need Janice but we will have to explain to her later.  We get to the top and Kayla (my granddaughter and the flower girl) has to go potty.  The restrooms are on the 1st floor.  Someone takes her down.  Then they ask for the marriage license and I say, Truly has it.   No she doesn't.  She put it in my car to make sure I would have it.  Janice is parking the car and we don't know where.  Truly goes down to find Janice and get the license.  The elevator comes back up and Janice handed someone the license before she left....Jerry has it I think.   But now Truly and Janice and Kayla are all missing.  The minister finally arrives, he is late too. 

Everyone arrives and it is getting settled.  We are standing outside the chapel doors waiting for the music to start.  I say, Janice....give me the bouquet.  She doesn't have it.  No one has it.  We forgot it!  The woman from the chapel gives me a big weird looking red flower.  I figure, it doesn't matter.  We are all here and that is what counts.  Tay is inside wondering if I am upset.  He will soon learn that this is just the Boshear style and we just go with it.....LOL   Sheri comes out of the chapel with a white bouquet.  It's not near as pretty as the one I left at home but much better then the rose.  She asks the woman why can't I use that one.  The woman says that they are for rent for $10.  Sheri has a fit $10 FOR A 5 SECOND WALK DOWN THE AISLE!!.  Sheri runs in the chapel, gets $10 from somewhere, comes out, shoves it in the woman's hand and says "here is your $10, now let her get married!"....LOL   In the end I think she got her point across because the woman ended up taking $70 off the quoted price for the whole thing...lol  

Anyway, the music starts, by then then girls are excited and they practically race down the aisle.  Dad (Don) wants to go with them.  I tell Dad no.  He is suppose to stay with me.  I'm trying to yell in a whisper for the girls to slow down but it's too late they are already down the aisle.  Dad and I get down there and wait and wait for the music to end....lol   Finally the minister starts to talk and then says "who gives this bride in marriage".  Dad says "I do".  The minister not realizing that he is my father looks at him and says you may be seated "grandfather".  I almost died.  My Dad may be 92 years old but he is not my grandfather.  Dad looks confused and I just said "sit by mom" and he did.  I decided to let it go for the sake of not making a scene for him.  But I forgot....this was a Boshear wedding and it was going to have a scene in it anyways...LOL 

The ceremony starts.  It's all wonderful but Tay just keeps staring at me and isn't looking at the minister that is talking to him...LOL  He told me later that he was trying really hard to pay attention but that I looked so beautiful all he wanted to do was kiss me and hold me. LOL   Anyway, the minister asks for the ring for the bride to be given to Tay.  Savannah has the pillow she made (she hand sewed the pillow all by herself and Janice helped decorate it) Savannah goes to untie my ring.  She is having trouble.  Janice tries to help.  She can't get the ring off either.  I start laughing and so does the rest of the room.  Truly tries to help.  The three of them are trying their best to get that ring off the pillow and it won't come off.  The Minister says in 30 yrs he has never had this happen....ROFL.   Finally they rip the ribbon holding the ring off the pillow and then finally get the ribbon untied from the ring and hand it to Tay....LOL   I was dying laughing by then.  Tay says his vows clear and loud as if letting the whole know he was marrying me.  He had tears in his eyes.  I never felt more loved in my life.   Then comes my vows.  I'm gazing into Tay's eyes, repeating what the minister says...then he says "for richer or poorer"  and my brain stalls out and I burst into laughter thinking about all the stuff people had done just so we could afford a wedding at all.   Tay laughs, everyone laughs.  Later he asks his mother if she noticed what I did when we got to that part and she said that she almost said something herself...LOL

The ceremony goes well to the end.  We kiss.  We kiss some more...LOL   We do pics and all that stuff and kiss some more.  We go to Sheri's for the reception and Truly goes to the house and gets the real bouquet for me.  It's a beautiful reception.  The whole thing that Sheri and Tom did was wonderful.  I was in awe of all they did.  Mom made all kinds of dips for the reception too that were so good people wanted to take them home.  The cake was there inspite of the fact that the person making the cake was just hospitalized earlier in the week.  But she told me that we couldn't let Sheri and Tom buy a cake.  That she was getting out of the hospital and making that cake and her and her husband did manage to make the cake and it was beautiful.  Sheri set candles for joining us together as one life, they did wonderful toasts to us and Sheri and dad and Tom said beautiful things for us.   Tom gave Tay's mother a glass of wine (which she normally doesn't drink) and she was feeling her oats and teasing Tay to no end....LOL   Sheri got us a beautiful glass sculpture with our names and the wedding date on it.   Mom got us the most gorgeous toasting glasses.  But when we went to cross our arms we did it wrong and I couldn't tip my glass without hitting Tay's chest and I poured the drink all down the front of my dress....LOL  

We all visit and all goes well.  I throw the bouquet to the only two single girls in the place....Savannah and my granddaughter Kayla.  Savannah lets Kayla get the bouquet.  She is sooooo excited.  Janice thanks Savannah for letting Kayla get it and Savannah says "I wasn't really being nice, I just don't want to get married right now".....ROFL.   Then we throw the garter to the only single male in the place.  My grandson Robert.  He catches it and Kayla is jumping up and down screaming "marry me...marry me" to Robert while holding the bouquet she just caught...it was so cute. 

We leave for the honeymoon.  Everything was perfect.  A real night to remember which I won't discribe in detail...lol   But we had a wonderful steak dinner in our wedding clothes at the Hilton Steak House and then we got a room with a big spa, a 4 head stand up shower a heart shaped bed and a fireplace.  It was a wonderful night.

We went to Sheri's the next day and  opened out gifts and got to visit with them a little before going home to the horrendous mess we had left from sewing and rushing around to get ready.  We got home and Janice had cleaned up the whole place.  She didn't want the honeymoon to be ruined by coming home to that mess.  What a sweetheart. 

On Monday I learned that one of my co-workers was sick and couldn't come to the wedding.  She and I have had problems off and on at work.  She wanted to make sure that I knew she wanted to come but was sick.  So she got out of bed and drove to the hospital and got someone to let her into the unit to get my phone number.  She tried and tried to call me but when she dialed it turned out she had my old number and it was now Ruby's Trailer Park....ROFL.  

So that is the story of my wedding.  I loved the whole thing and probably left out parts that maybe Sheri can fill in.   Oh and I have a box of little chapel shaped bubbles because everyone didn't see them when they signed the guest book and so they were all left over....LOL   Maybe I'll go blow bubbles at Tay....LOL

Love Deb