Here is my journal entry that I typed up from Mykonos, Greece describing our rehearsal dinner night:
Day of the rehearsal dinner. I bought a hot pink Chinese wedding dress to wear to the rehearsal tonight. Hopefully one day, a daughter of mine can wear the same dress during her wedding events as well. Rehearsal started at St. Anselm at 6:45PM. I finally met Deacon Steve, and we went through the ceremony two times. It was very interesting how they had the wedding party processional into the church. St. Anselm is a circular church, so there was no “main aisle”. We started from the back of the church, and the girls walked around the altar on the right, and the boys on the left, and they met in the middle right before taking the places at the altar. I was still a little confused how things were going to go down at the real ceremony, but I figured Fr. Spezia would lead us and we would figure it out. Deacon Steve showed us the house the girls and I could get ready in, and yes, we had an entire house to get ready at. By “getting ready” I really mean just throwing on our shoes and dresses, for we were doing hair/makeup at The Hyatt.
We left the church and headed to the rehearsal dinner. I was really pumped about our dinner, we hosted it at Table Three, which was not far from our house at all. They have an awesome patio, and that’s where we made the reservation for. Lucky for us, it didn’t rain at all this evening. It was a little humid, and we could have done without that, but otherwise, it was a perfect night. The food was delicious, I was disappointed that they forgot to have the tempura green beans waiting on the tables when we arrived, but I made sure that we still got those! And it’s a good thing I did, b/c they were a huge hit! I also had to remind them to set out the aioli dipping sauce, but oh well. Keith and I also exchanged our wedding gifts this night as well. So originally, I contemplated getting him a NICE watch….like a Tag Huer or something. But my receptionist salary just didn’t really allow for that. I also thought about a Burberry watch, but was told I would only being paying for the brand name, not the watch quality. So I settled on Burberry cufflinks. Now when Keith had to take his suit back to Nordstrom to get the pants hemmed (b/c they completely did NOT do that before giving him the suit back), I had to try to non-chalantly try to talk him out of the Hugo Boss dress shirt he was picking out. You see, it didn’t have French cuffs, so he wouldn’t be able to wear the Burberry cufflinks on our wedding day! So after he purchased the damn shirt, we went to look at watches. I wanted to know what styles he liked, and there happened to be a Burberry watch there that he loved. So I decided the cuff links would get returned, and I would go back and purchase that watch. He would have no idea, as I had told him I already bought his gift. So this day before getting ready for the rehearsal, I took the S2k and went and bought the watch. We decided to open the gifts at rehearsal and not the wedding day, b/c we wanted to see each other’s reactions as we opened the presents. I was so excited to watch him open the watch! He loved it, and I even had 2 links removed so it would fit him better. When I opened my gift, I unwrapped it to find an iPad. I was excited of course, it was a nice gift. But not necessarily something I would have deemed a wedding present, lol. So I laughed and opened the box to look at it. When I took the lid off, I found a white David Yurman bag inside!!! He had gotten me my something blue!!! It was a gorgeous, light blue topaz ring with the smaller diamonds/crystals around it…like my fake green DY ring I used to wear every day. The night was perfect. Everyone had a good time. I hated our waitress though, I was the freakin bride, and she was rude to me! She came around asking if anyone had ordered a white cosmo, as my pink tinkle (martini) was almost out, I told her no, but that I would take it. Her response was rudely that everyone told her they would take it. I’m the bride!!! If I want the extra, give it to me! Anyway….
After the rehearsal, a group of us went to The Corner for some drinks. It was Keith and me, Jenn and Mark, Marco, Chris Toth, and John. I had some ice picks, and two gummy bear shots. What a great night!!! We got kicked out at 1:45AM, which was much later than most people would have, but Mark and Jenn are good friends with the bartender, he he!!!!
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