Finally

I'm a married woman!! It felt like our day would never arrive, but it did...and it was perfect. Not even a jerk of a groomsman could dampen our day. When you have a large wedding party there is bound to be somebody who is a pain in the butt...we had our one. The sad thing is that he has been Brian's friend for years...since their freshmen year of high school. He didn't spend much time at all with us over the weekend...really he was only there when he had to be. Since he didn't want to be there, I guess it was better that he didn't spend that much time with us.

Anyway...our day was perfect. It rained just a little when we first saw each other...which was actually perfect. Brian had just turned around to see me for the first time that day and the rain started coming down, not hard though. My comment to him was that it was perfect timing as we were standing in a gazebo. It was perfect timing in the since that we knew his Granny Mac and my Oma were watching and were happy for us. It brought to mind the song "Holes in the Floor of Heaven." If you haven't heard it you won't understand what I'm talking about, but if you have heard it, it makes sense. The rain stopped and we were off to take more pictures with our wedding party before we went to the Butterfly House. The photographer and videographers were amazing...I can't say enough about them! Sabrina and Michelle, our coordinators, were amazing as well. They made sure everything went smoothly...and it did.

The ceremony was perfect. Brother Larry did an amazing job!! The reception was perfect as well! Great food, awesome cake, great music, and great company. There were so many people there that we hadn't seen for a while. Everyone was amazed at how beautiful the Butterfly House was...and everybody seemed to have a great time. I know Brian and I did. We could not have asked for our day to have been any better than it was!!

Now we're on our honeymoon in St. Lucia. The first day was a little rough, but I blame that on getting about 2 hours of sleep the night before. We were a little disappointed at first at the location of the resort. The website is a little misleading because it says the resort is a 10-15 minute walk from a beach. I took that as a beach you can go and relax at and swim...well it's not. There are a couple of public beaches close, but they are about a 10-20 minute DRIVE from where we are staying. We are no longer disappointed, though. We went on a tour of the city of Soufriere yesterday...and tonight we are going on an evening cruise. The evening cruise will take us to a beach where we can snorkel and swim and then bring us back around sunset while we drink champagne and eat hors' douerves (I have no idea if I spelled that right.) Tomorrow we are going whale and dolphin watching, Thursday we are going to try and go deep sea fishing, Friday we are going to go on a glass bottom boat to see some of the coral reefs, and then on Saturday we are going to go by boat to Castries to shop and see what it's like (to see if we want to come back to St. Lucia and stay there instead of where we are). Don't get me wrong...wher we are now is beautiful, but it wasn't exactly what we were wanting. Well that's all for now. I have to get ready to go on the evening cruise.