Well, as with most of my posts, this one comes a little bit after the fact, but such is life, right? Suzi and Mike were married on November 6th, 2010 here in San Diego. It was a beautiful wedding with a whole week's worth of fun events. The Wednesday prior to the wedding, my parents had a small BBQ at their house for the family that arrived that day. Thursday, Suzi and Mike had a get together at - where else? Pizza Port and then the Pub. If you've ever been to Pizza Port, you know how awesome their pizza and beer is, and you know how terrible it is to try to find a seat. Suzi tried to make sure that there was a section saved for their party by talking with the staff ahead of time and putting up cute little signs. All of Carlsbad obliged, except for one surly gentleman that thought he was exempt from moving because we wasn't at a table - Suz let him know what was up...
From Pizza Port, we went to the infamous Pub, which of course, is where Suzi and Mike met. We got a pic of them sitting on the exact seats where they first laid eyes on each other.
Friday started off with the girls getting their nails done and then heading to a bridesmaid luncheon, the boys were busy all day playing golf.
The rehearsal was later that evening and I'm pretty sure Suzi cried more at the rehearsal than she did at the wedding! From there we went to the Rehearsal Dinner at Gregorios in Carlsbad and it was quite delicious.
The morning of their wedding day, Suz and I woke up at the hotel and began getting ready as the rest of the bridesmaids and moms began shuffling in. We all rode down to the church in an awesome limo bus, and if you were wondering, my feet were already hurting. The ceremony was perfect and Suzi held it together pretty well; however, I'm pretty sure that we began giggling during one of the prayers...and that I almost fell over just standing still, but hopefully no one noticed! Once we hopped in the limo after the ceremony we headed to the beach to take some more pics and it was perfect out, and how can you not have a great time in a party bus with champagne with an awesome group of people - and with Jeremy there to entertain! I danced my little tail off at the reception, I was mostly just glad that my speech went well and that I kept it together enough to get through the whole thing - even after my own husband cut me in line for speeches and preformed the mom dance, the moonwalk and the worm. Yea, I had to follow that. Once the reception was over we all headed over to the after party at 20/20 lounge in the Sheraton, I had a great time hanging out with our friends and family, until I noticed Suzi finally letting go and crying - I knew it was coming sooner or later. When I told her maybe it was time for her to go to bed, her response was "I don't want this day to end, so until every single person has left this bar, I am staying right here!", which pretty much sums it up. I could have slept for 2 days straight after that. So, CONGRATS Suzi and Mike - your wedding couldn't have been more perfect for two of my most favorite people in the world!
