Everything was looking great until Liz had a wardrobe malfunction right before it was time to exchange the vows. The zipper on her the back of her dress had started to split in the middle, and I looked and was thinking "Oh crap! What do I do?". She could feel it, and whispered to me "Jess, how bad is it?" "It's okay, but when you walk over to do the unity candle try to stand sideways if you can", and she said "ok" as I was thinking "how am I going to fix it?"So, then as we sat back down, I told Julie behind me that we needed safety pins, and then Liz motioned me up to the front where she was sitting, and I said we were getting some safety pins, and I'd come up and fix it. So, I took the two pins they found and went up there and put them in the back of her dress. Mark whispered "I thought you guys had all these malfunctions taken care of ahead of time", and I responded "Shut up, Mark. I'm working on it." haha Then, before commuion my mom had went and got a handful of pins from Kelli, Liz's personal attendant. I went back up as communion was being distributed, took Elizabeth to a back room, and put every single pin that I was given in her dress, and I told her "Well, now the bad part's over so we don't have to worry about it anymore hahaha" Luckily, we all stayed pretty calm throughout this, and it was funny to talk about afterwards. Something we're never going to forget :-) Joe and Ed said it wasn't really a scene that many people noticed until I went back up there the second time, but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. Poked my finger quite a few times that night, but what a night!
So, wardrobe malfunction aside, they're married, I sign the marriage liscnece with Ed, and then Ed and I ride in the car with Mark and Elizabeth to the reception hall in Tilden. Ed took us on quite the tour of some small towns on the way to kill time, with the rest of the bridal party following behind us. Then, we rode in this old firetruck that the Hansen's own, which was fun.
Dinner was great, we banged on the table to make them kiss, and Ed and I gave our toasts. In addition to what I had already thought about, I threw in "Elizabeth, as you know I'll always have your back. I had no idea that I'd actually have to prove it to you today, but I'll always have your back". Here's a photo of Sheldon and I with Elizabeth. Sheldon was one of Mark's groomsmen.
Then, we had an hour before the dance was going to start, so we decided to take the bridal party on a little walk and take some fun pictures together. Liz even had brought the parrot from her bachelorette party along. The guys were even pretty good about playing along. haha
Then, we danced, danced, danced the night away. So much fun! We boogied it down the line in our pairs during the bridal party dance to "Celebration", chicken danced, had the dollar dance, slow danced, "Cotton Eye Joe", the macarena, line danced, and just had a good time. It wasn't just girls out there all night either - the guys were fun. Here's the best man (Mark's younger brother Ed) and I, toward the end of the dance.
Yay for weddings! Always a good time. Made some new friends, made some great memories, and had a blast! Congratulations to Mark and Elizabeth Hansen!
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