hollywood.

i'm working all week covering for vacation. and next week too. this week in vernon, and next week in kelowna. and of course the weekends are split between both stations. its busy busy for me.

the summer heat has finally arrived. the next two days are supposed to be 30+. i am KIND OF looking forward to it... but i know my house is going to get sooooo hot and uncomfortable. but when it is that hot... and i only work until 2... it makes it perfect for BEACH TIMES! the plan for after work today already includes picking up zach and going to the beach for a bit. and of course... bootcamp this evening. woo! i am going to sweat buckets. i haven't been to bootcamp since before the wedding though... like a week and a half before the wedding. and i have had the WORST eating habits for the last couple of weeks as well... not liking it. need to work on my beach bod. haha.

i guess i should write about the wedding... i don't really know what to say. it was such a whirlwind for me. none of it would have been possible if not for some really amazing friends and family. i had some definite freak out moments. things definitely seemed like much bigger problems than they actually ended up being. i know i made my mom really mad at me a few times... and i was pretty mean to her. katie was constantly reassuring me that things were going to work out and it was going to be fine. brent fixed some big problems (including the tarp disaster... that we didn't actually end up needing). that was a big one. tyler was having a fit about that because he had no idea how it was going to work and he had given up. i'm also not a tarp master. but they were put up. and once the lights and everything were added to them... it looked perfect and magical.

my bridesmaids worked their butts off. dealing with my stress and bad attitude. and fixing an abundance of little problems i had. jasmine made all the little feather pieces for hair and boutenirs or whatever you call those things? for the guys. and she made my lovely feather hair piece with all the pearls. they were all fantastic. there were so many little things that i didn't have time to finish up... things that weren't actually that hard to do, and didn't take that long... but i was more or less a chicken with its head cut off. dessy of course worked like a horse for the entire 10 days she was here, more or less. i felt a little bad because she ended up doing what i was supposed to do with the dresses (but they turned out far better than i could have made them... thanfully). she also made my veil the night before. and she arranged all the flowers the morning of. i remember bethany saying something about how she didn't know how she expected to be able to do the decorating herself... well those were things that i expected to do that looking back... what was i thinking? of course i wasn't going to have time to arrange flowers the morning of.

hair and make up, as i expected, took longer than planned. i was basically being poked and proded for about 4 hours straight. but that's how it is supposed to be... right? it came down to a real crunch to get everyone finished in time though... and again i had a panic. i was like okay... seriously... we have a half hour and we need to LEAVE. people didn't seem to grasp the urgency of that. haha. but we made it out on time. we weren't late. and everyone looked fantastic. funny enough... andrew was the one holding up the ceremony... he changed VERY quickly. i laced up his shoes for him while he was putting on his vest and bow tie or something. it was a team effort the whole way.

there were a few logistics that i didn't think through... like... once our hands were tied together it was going to be very hard to do rings and sign the paperwork and all that... but oh well. i thought it was nice. of course... the marriage commissioner was pretty awful... and screwed up BOTH of our names... but its a good story, right? haha. i laughed it off.

then we did photos before dinner. i thought that was a lot of fun. i wish that i had got more photos with certain people. and i wish that there had been some photos of tyler with the girls, and me with the boys... but oh well. there are some whole group shots that will be good. i am DYING of impatience to see the rest of them. it is seriously killing me. haha.

there was another incident with the dinner and place cards and all that... as in i was missing some. buuut... again... catastrophe averted... and it wasn't really as big of a deal as i was making of it and everyone was fine and got their food. the food was amazing. it was laid back and enjoyable.

the rest was the best party of my life. seriously. i had the best time EVER. it was perfect. my ONLY complaint is that someone put their own ipod on and played a kesha song. the WORST. but i survived. and the party continued.

i think probably the biggest highlight for me was getting to sing... with a full band... and the way everyone got into it. that was exhilerating. so good. i want to do it again. anyone want to find me a band?