Hippocratic Oats

Going to the Chapel (Kelly and Jason version)

June 15, 2010 at 10:36 am 1 comment

Storytime! I first met my friend Kelly way back in middle school. We knew each other because we had gym class together, but Kelly was a year older than me. Because a grade can sometimes be quite a barrier to communication, we didn’t start chatting regularly until our 5th period band practice. I don’t remember exactly when it happened, but because Kelly and I both played the flute, we started sitting next to each other. When Kelly moved up to the 9th grade, much to my disappointment, she left me alone with our music stand. Luckily, my nerdy 8th grade self was in the accelerated science program, and Kelly and I spent many hours together learning all about geology and meteorology from “Mr Box o Rocks.” Throughout high school, we continued our friendship, growing closer and closer. Years later, we have shared so much more than a few pieces of sheet music. From the laughter of “board cake” and Bon Jovi concerts to the tears of break-ups and bad hair, Kelly has remained one of my best friends. We have traveled together to NYC, Florida and Hawaii, and our friendship has even withstood several “fights” involving maps. In my blog, you’ll often hear me refer to my friends as Pioneers. Kelly was there the night the phrase “Pioneer Girls” were born and is PG #1. Kelly is one of my best friends, and I’m so honored that she asked me to be one of her bridesmaids when she married her husband Jason. From the very first text I got after their first date, I had a feeling that he maybe the one for Kelly Ok, enough with the sappy walk down memory lane, and time for some pictures!

As you probably can tell, this is going to be one of my favorite blog posts. Although I’ll never be able to capture all of the emotions of this special day, I hope this post shows what a beautiful wedding Kelly and Jason had. Unfortunately, due to bridesmaids duties, I wasn’t able to take photos of the actual ceremony and parts of the reception. Check out Emily’s blog to see quite a few more pictures from all the wedding festivities. She owns one of those big bad paparazzi cameras so the pics are pretty awesome:)

The Wedding

After a long day of testing, driving, rehearsing, dining and reception prepping, I woke up bright and early the next morning ready for wedding festivities. I picked Kelly up and headed over to Michael’s diner for a pre-wedding breakfast and hair party with Kelly, Emily, Vicki and I.

Kelly and her congrats balloon

I was running late (surprise, surprise), so Em and Vicki brought me an iced coffee (dark roast, black, and delicious)

Emily!

Kelly!

Michael and Vicki!

Michael whipped up perhaps one of the tastiest omelets I’ve ever had.

After breakfast, we headed next door to get our hair done. Here’s the soon to be Mrs. Peruzzi outside of the hair salon.

After spending way more time than I thought was possible on Kelly and my hair (Em has some photos of my 80′s soap star hair on her blog) and a make-up session, we headed over to the Coddingtons to get dressed. We got Kelly into the dress fairly quickly, and thanks to quite a bit of dress tape that thing was not moving anytime soon.

Kelly all dressed, ready, and waiting

Love this picture

Vicki, me, Kelly, Lisa, and Emily before the wedding

Bridesmaids after the wedding ceremony

Mr and Mrs Peruzzi!

Such a beautiful day for a wedding. Couldn’t get a picture of the church without the stupid power lines

Tailgating outside the reception before Kelly and Jason arrived

Bridal party drinking out of our classy champagne glasses. You’ll notice that we’re only hanging on to the top half.

The guy at the store only sold us tops. No bottoms.

Vicki keeping it classy

Em and I doing the same

My placecard

My beautiful flowers. Thanks Emily for being so crafty!

With all the craziness at the reception, I didn’t get a chance to take a picture of my dinner. I did manage to get a picture of my salad.

Wedding favor

Love this picture of Emily at the reception

The cake that our super talented Emily made

Kelly after they cut the cake

Jason after the cake cutting

  

Jason taking off the Giants garter I worked so hard to put on

The photographer had an idea

It worked fairly well with Kelly. Sorry for dropping you Jason!

After all was said and done, I had a fantastic time at the wedding. Even if I still have a bruise from the unidentified dancing relative who accidentally kicked me while busting a move, the wedding was awesome! Congrats Kelly and Jason!!!

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