The Wedding!

Okay, I freely admit that the title of today's post is misleading because the wedding isn't happening until tonight. So if you tuned in to see pictures, I'm sorry. You'll have to check back next week for those.

What I want to talk about are some of the things that are common for Boyd weddings. Paul is the third of our children to get married. Things have happened at every Boyd wedding so far, and you can pretty much count on them happening. every. time.

1.  Vehicle problems. Right before we left for Matt and Kylee's wedding, our van quit working. Literally. In the middle of the road the headlights dimmed, the air conditioner and radio turned off and the van died. We left twelve hours late because we had to have the van worked on.

When we drove to Steph and Zack's wedding, the air conditioner didn't work (same van). We left Florida Sunday afternoon and drove seven hours to the church we were going to attend that night on our way up to Alabama. The air didn't work so we zoomed along the interstate with the windows down. We arrived to the service late, and came in looking quite windblown and disheveled.

This time around Paul left late because we had to have some work done on the air conditioner. (Car this time, not the van.)

2.  Injuries. Someone always gets injured. The day of Matt and Ky's wedding, Luke went skidding across the parking lot asphalt on his face. All of the wedding pictures show a really nice bandage on his chin.

At Zack and Steph's wedding, I picked up some kind of an eye infection and couldn't wear my contact lenses. I used a lot of visine so that I didn't have red, bleary eyes at the wedding.

Today a very angry yellow jacket stung Paul on the hand. The groom turned quite pale and was in a tremendous amount of pain so we doctored the hand and loaded him up with ibuprofen and benadryl. That made for an interesting afternoon. He got stung on his middle finger and not his ring finger, so hopefully there won't be any problems getting his wedding ring on.

3. Kitchen mishaps. At Matt and Ky's it was twenty pounds of potato salad. For Steph and Zack we had the camouflage cupcakes and the Pastry Pastor. This time around it was tortilla chips (so maybe 18 bags was a little too much) and exploding coke cans in the freezer. There's always some crazy food mishap or event to mark a wedding.

4. Family fun. We enjoy being together.

And this is all before the wedding! I can't wait to see the pics next week. Can you?