I showed you all the shower details last week, but I wanted to take a few minutes to share some of my favorite parts of the day.
As I said earlier, I came early to help set up so I was there to greet guests as they came in. My bridesmaids were under strict instructions to greet everyone and take their gifts to the gift table, but I found myself saying, “Hi, how are you? Thank you so much for coming. It’s so good to see you again…ohmigosh, let me take that huge gift off your hands!” And so I schlepped a lot of my own gifts to the gift table (and was scolded a few times for doing so). What can I say? I was just trying to help!
It actually worked out perfectly because I was able to chat with everyone and really feel like I got to spend time with all of my guests. Especially my nonna, who lives three hours away and originally wasn’t going to be able to attend. At the last minute she was able to come and I was so happy to see her again:
After a few minutes, I was chatting to…somebody—I don’t even remember who—when the coordinator turned the lights off. It was a bright shiny day, and with the light streaming in through the windows it actually didn’t make that much of a difference, but I did think it strange that the coordinator would just shut the lights off completely. I looked up at the ceiling and made a joke about it being time to sit down (you know, like when they dim the lights in a theater…OK, maybe not so funny—whatever), but after a few seconds a different set of lights came on. I cracked another bad joke about making sure I looked good in this lighting. Apparently I make really awkward jokes when I’m the center of attention.
Turns out our venue had a full blown power outage and the second set of lights had been kicked on by their generator. It was super windy that day, so my only guess is that a tree knocked down a power line somewhere because we later found out that the whole vicinity lost power!
The coordinator ran out to tell me that everything was fine and that the food was done cooking (thank goodness!), but we’d have to serve it a little earlier so it didn’t get cold. Fine by me! Honestly, the power outage was just a little reminder that no matter how well you plan for the day things WILL go wrong. It reminded that I can’t control everything, so the best thing to do is just enjoy yourself and embrace the chaos.
Five minutes later the food was out and we got to eating! I don’t have photos of the food, but we had a great buffet with roasted chicken, cavatelli, eggplant parm, potatoes, veggies, salad, rolls—oh my it was delicious! Directly after lunch we served the cake:
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