Thanks everyone!! Unfortunately, no honeymoon yet. We both had to return to work immediately, and as soon as I got back my supervisor put in her two weeks notice, so work was a little extra crazy through the holidays. However, things have now calmed down and I can share ALL the gory details of the days leading up to the wedding and the wedding itself
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Prior to the wedding, Diana took a boatload of time off to get everything gathered and prepared so we could head up to
Disneyland early on Friday morning all stress free. Ahahahahaha. Not what happened. Not even close.
My concussion a week prior to the wedding had essentially rendered me completely useless for anything other than staring off into space or sleeping, so everything was on Diana. Poor Diana. She was slammed shuffling me from doctor appointment to doctor appointment, taking care of the crazy new puppy, dealing with the car issues, and oh yeah, gathering EVERYTHING we needed for the wedding together and packing it up in an efficient fashion by herself.
By Friday morning my car was still not ready. We had brought it in Tuesday morning first thing after it wouldn't turn on. However, the dealership had received back some of their loaner cars so we could swap out the rental for one of those. We drive a Jetta sportswagen. Lots of room in the back of the car, especially when the seats are folded down. Perfect for carting boxes, suitcases, and wedding dresses. Well the dealership had received a loaner Tiguan back and assured us that it should have enough room. Thus, we went in Friday morning prepared to pick up a roomy Tiguan to cart everything to Disneyland as soon as we could get our hands on the car.
We arrived at the dealership promptly at 7:30 AM to pick up the Tiguan so we could be on our way ASAP. I was all happy to not have the terrible rental car anymore and be on our way to the wedding weekend shortly. Well, as soon as we stepped up to the counter, I knew something was not good. The service person greeted us with "Did you get my message last night???" Cue yet another curveball to the wedding.
As it turns out, the individuals who had borrowed the wonderful Tiguan and returned it the night before had essentially spent the entire time they had the car engaging in some illicit drug activities, or at least that is the way it smelled even after the deep cleaning they had given the car. There was no way we were taking that car. They let us smell it just in case and dear god the stench. I'm actually somewhat impressed how badly it still smelled the next morning after a deep cleaning and multiple deodorizing attempts.
Thus, no Tiguan. Options B and C were a Golf GTI and a Passat Sedan. They were trying to push us into taking the Passat, but I patiently explained to them repeatedly that two wedding dresses were not going to fit in the trunk laying flat with all the boxes we had (and suitcases) even if we folded the seats down. So it was to be the Golf GTI. Now all we needed were the keys and the car and we could be on our merry way!
Not so fast! When they went to get the keys for the Golf, it turns out one of the service people had accidentally put the keys in their pocket and taken them home with them the night before. No worries, we were willing to wait until they retrieved the keys from said person so we could take the Golf because there was no way we were going to use the Passat. After a little longer wait, THE KEYS!! We were finally on our way home to pack up the car at about 9:30AM, two hours after we arrived for a simple car trade-in.
Did I mention that the gloomy, drizzly skies finally opened up into a flat out downpour from the time we entered the dealership to when we left? Thus we went home and rapidly packed up the car (in the pouring rain) and put the finishing touches on the pet care preparations. Good thing we got the Golf! The car was packed to the gills, stacked with boxes and dresses.
After a little over an hour of driving, this glorious sign was in our sights:
(Just seeing that sign has a very nice soothing, calming effect on me haha)