November 7, 2009: Wedding Day

So, here I am a little over 8 months later finally blogging about our wedding! Everything went incredibly smooth, we had a wonderful weekend surrounded by our friends and family.

Clayton and I both headed to Waco the Wednesday before our wedding. Before leaving I had informed my students that I would be gone for a week and a half (keep in mind I taught in a middle school Autism unit) because I was getting married and going to the beach. I got several interesting questions about me being gone, but my favorites were:

Is there a pool there?
Are you going to come back pregnant (I about died when Christian asked that)?

Do I have to call you Mrs. Young when you get back, because I like Ms. Goertz better?

When we arrived to Waco we met with our photographer (Rebecca Cash) to go over last minute details. On Thursday I put together the gifts for the wedding party. That evening several family members got to town and my parents had a cook out, then everyone pitched in to help me tie bows on the wedding programs (I think there were around 400...about 3/4 of the way through Adrienne and I had to make a trip to Walmart looking for more ribbon at about 10 pm....we bought all the cream ribbon we could find...it was a LONG night). Friday we put together bags to go to the hotels for our out of town guests, went to the country club and tied MORE bows, this time on chairs. Thanks again to all the family and friends who helped with that, couldn't have done it with out y'all. I do remember uncle Johnny telling me that I was not allowed to ask him to tie anymore bows...haha...such a sweet guy! After that Megan, Lara, and I went to get our nails done....then it was off to the bridal lunch at Sironia...and then the rehersal at Nelson's! Friday was one crazy day....but fun!

Saturday... the BIG day! We started off at La Bella Visage were everyone got their hair and make up done. Then everyone met at St. Paul's for photos...then it was off to St. Louis for the wedding!! I will be posting photos next!