Dawn and Larry Marry

This weekend we attended the most beautiful wedding. For those of you that know them, after 9 years of being together, Larry and Dawn finally tied the knot. The wedding was held in Manteo, NC at the NC Aquarium and the reception held inside the facility in the shark tank room. We drove a total of 18 hours with our back and forth trips from the beach house to the Outer Banks, some hours with children, some hours with child and Jorma was even fortunate enough to travel for a whole 7 hours on Friday without anyone in the car but himself. That might sound like it could suck to you, but to me, it sounds like a little piece of heaven. Ah the CDs. Ah the silence. Add a cup of Starbucks and it’s better than porn.

The next day we left Connor with PaPaw and took Tristan with us to the wedding so he could wow everyone with his cuteness and break any uncomfortable silences with his baby sweet giggle-scream, which he busted out right as the bride was walking down the aisle. I bribed him with cheese nips and random toys during the ceremony to keep him quiet and between that and being fascinated by Lynn who was sitting next to me he was good to go. Since Jorma was in the wedding party and so was everyone else that I knew, I was thrilled to see Lynn, one of the girls that I worked with a while back, but was even more thrilled to see that she was solo too, which meant now I had someone else to hang with. Jorma could be seen walking briskly past us every few minutes, schlepping champagne glasses, some random table or just randomly walking around with the other groomsmen, all looking like a flock of worried penguins.

They all looked worried because the wedding was delayed, oh just a little, ‘bout 2 and a half hours, due to an accident on the hwy that prevents a portion of the wedding party and a handful of guests from arriving even close to the ceremony time. The minister had another wedding to go to, so they signed the paperwork and Larry’s grandfather read the ceremony, skipping larger portions of vows and other niceties but getting the job done, in a timely and efficient manner. Having been married in Vegas though… I’m into that sort of thing.

Because I didn’t painstakingly plan out each detail of our trip to the wedding and I didn’t make myself a check list, we forgot both diaper bag and stroller. I held Tristan for about 7 hours and swapped out my cute black strappy heels for flip flops after only 4 hours, because I could not longer take the painful combination of sand and high heeled shoes but in the end it was worth it to see Larry and Dawn get hitched and almost as awesome to see Jorma in a tuxedo.