Zap, Wham, Pow, Marriage

x. Inside Jokes and Tyson

Today was the day that the rest of my family was going to be clued in on the wedding plans Janie and I made.  They were fabulous if I do say so myself, and although I'm pretty sure everyone was expecting the worst, they would be surprised.

When I say expecting the worst, I definitely mean worst.  I told my family that Janie had helped me with the plans, and those who didn't know Janie was a five year old little girl soon found out.  So aunts and uncles and cousins and even my mom and dad who had wanted to have an input into my wedding were sorely disappointed.  Leo hadn't been included in all the planning, so he was anxious to know what the deal was with our wedding.  

"Okay everyone!  Thank you so much for coming out to the unveiling of the wedding plans!  With Janie's help, I now have everything figured out.  If you can please direct your attention to the screen, the power point presentation will begin shortly," I announced once everyone had settled in their seats in my parent's backyard.  

There was a screen hanging on the garage and a projector set up on the back porch.  After Janie's appointment and several other kids coming to see me, I had gone home and turned all our plans into a presentation so we had visual as well as audio.  That's right, I can be professional sometimes, I thought smugly as I watched my family's stunned faces when the presentation started.  So I was known amongst my relatives as a slightly immature adult.  I was 20, but come on people, live a little!

"If we are all ready to start," I spoke up again, waited for a few nods, and pressed a button that allowed the first slide.

The picture was simple red words on a white background saying "Barbie and Ken's Wedding."  I had crossed out Barbie and Ken and written Delilah and Leo underneath though.  This did cause several laughs throughout the backyard and Leo winked at me, silently supporting my decision to start off with some humor.  Next came some of the serious stuff and I narrated through several pictures.

"These pictures are almost all thanks to Google if any of you are wondering."  Various laughs greeted my opening sentence.

"First we were thinking, what better place to start than dresses?  The wedding dress is the most important.  Unfortunately, we haven't actually picked the dress.  Although with Janie's help I present to you.... the bridesmaids dresses."  I pressed the button and a picture of the dress popped up.  I haven't picked my bridesmaids yet, but it won't take long and the dresses would look perfect on anyone.

They're an A-line dress with a sweetheart neckline.  The website says tea-length, which means they go down to about mid-calf.  The fabric is chiffon, and I absolutely adore them in lilac.  Over all, the dresses are amazing, and apparently my aunts and cousins agree, because coos go ripple through my audience.  I decide to narrate a bit before clicking on to the next pic.

"I haven't chosen the special people who will get to wear these dresses because there are just so many of you to choose from!  But no worries, I'll let you know by next week.  I would choose all of you, but Leo said a small wedding, and I think that means like, five bridesmaids. Sorry.  And guys, you won't have to wear a purple tie.  I'm thinking sage green."  I hear a sigh of relief from my favorite cousin, Tyson.  He knows he's going to be one of the groomsmen.  Honestly, I don't care if Leo is supposed to pick his groomsmen, if Ty isn't on that list I'll sneak him on it.

"Next we have the wedding venue.  Not that this comes as a big surprise to any of you."  My family had been married in the same church for generations.  It was literally a tradition that you had to follow or be shunned.  Speaking of which, I hope my cousin Tara is fine.  It's been years since she got married in that church across town, and I haven't seen her since.

The color scheme surprised some of my aunts (because we all know my uncles only came because they were dragged, and therefore they don't care about any of this).  I was planning on choosing a color and making everything matching, which my aunts would have expected, but Janie had insisted we spice things up.  So the flowers were going to be bright yellow tulips.  Decorations were going to be red, not too bright, but not pink either.  Sort of a watermelon color.  The flower girl was going to throw blue hydrangea, which is a little, light blue flower.  So we have red for draping decorations on the pews, yellow for flower arrangements (except my bouquet), purple for dresses, green for ties, blue for flower girl.  It's like a rainbow threw up on this place.  Except throw up is disgusting and my wedding decor was not.