MONDAY!!!

I woke up at sunrise, with that "first-day-of-school feeling", and headed down to the Point to join mom and dad for some pre-wedding prep work. Mom and dad had already seen rain, blue skies and a rainbow... good weather omen?

We marked the ground for the streamer poles, cut hundreds of polyester and vintage lace ribbons (thank you Senior Center), built and erected a flag pole, divied up gifts, raked and cleared shells and sea weed from the tent spot, funneled sand into glass canisters and 45 empty wine bottles (thank you family for drinking and Freddy for soaking and scrubbing all the labels off), and melted and melted and melted candles (dripless candles no less) until the wine bottles had that “romantic feeling”. You know the one. We sorted all the things and things that dad and mom had taken down the night before and fell onto the couch for a delicious shrimp and couscous dinner.

These happen to be action photos... but the real raker was Freddy. I'd like to have seen his biceps BEFORE and AFTER our wedding weekend!

The next morning came early and brought a typhoon with it. The fate of our beach wedding was up in the air! I drove back into Tallahassee at 20 mph the entire way home, windshield wipers at full speed, praying for all the rain to pass on through the Point and bring on the sun.