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Ok, my room is clean, it did not eat me, no worries. It didn't actually take all weekend, but I've been pretty busy!
Oklahoma Weekend part 2!
When last we left off, it was Thursday night and we were all going to bed after a long night of Bacheloretting it up.
We all slept in until about 9:30 or 10, which (for me at least, is like a vacation!). Showered, cleaned up, and cleaned up the room, checking out around lunch time. After checking out, we went to the last restaurant that was on our list to go to before leaving Stillwater. Hideaway Pizza! No pics, but I had grilled chicken and cheddar pizza, it was just as good as I remembered.
After lunch, we wandered around Chris's Spirit Store for a while, and stocked up on some new OSU essentials. I got an OSU lisence plate frame that says OSU Alumni on it.
Oh, forgot to mention that at this point it was just Kelly, Cortney, Paula and I. Lacy had already headed back to Tulsa because she had some things to get done. Then after we left Chris's, Paula went to go pick up a few things, and Cortney, Kelly and I walked back over to campus. As we are passing the new Alumni Center, I realize that I have never seen it completed. So we decide to take a detour and go check it out. It was beautiful. OSU already has a beautiful campus, but this was just great. I am so proud to be an alumni.
This was hanging up just outside the women's restroom. Pistol Pete is our mascot. And yes, I realize he is creepy, but I want to make a replica of this soooo bad.
Go POKES!!
This is what the main seating area looks like. So pretty!! While we were there, Kelly applied for her and Brad's joint alumni membership. She wasn't sure she could since they aren't married yet, but both of their dues were up, and the woman working there let her. I also renewed my membership, because I knew my dues were up.
After that, we bolt to the car, because we have like, an hour and a half before the rehearsal starts and Tulsa is an hour drive away!
Little did I realize that, yes, Tulsa is an hour drive away, but the chapel is further than that! We hop in the car and start driving along. Finally, somewhere between Tulsa and Stillwater we realize that there is no way we are going to make it in time to go to the hotel and change and then go to the chapel, so we figure that we will just change at the chapel. Actually, Paula starts changing in the back seat.
Oh, but wait, another slight problem...the gas light comes on. That's right, I had a quarter of a tank of gas, which should have been fine no problem, but with all the backdragging from the wind, I was out of gas. So Paula is fully changed, we need to be at the chapel in about 30 minutes, and we still aren't quite to Tulsa yet! We zip into this gas station, Kelly and I yank our clothes out of our suitcases in the back and run into the gas station to change in the bathroom while Cortney and Paula put gas in the car. Have you ever had to change clothes in a gas station bathroom? Not a cool thing...the floor was grody, and we are trying to stand on our shoes while putting on dresses....just not something I would recommend. Back at the car, finally changed, Paula offers to drive, cause she has been able to fix her make up and brush her hair and everything, and I graciously accept. She also knows her way around Tulsa better than the rest of us as the rest of us are from TX.
Then at 4:32, we bust into the chapel, tripping over ourselves and laughing at the craze that has been the past hour and a half. And we are only 2 minutes late. Much to my amazement, Lacy is totally calm.
"Hey you guys. I see you found it all right." Yup, sure did, Lace, thanks.
Come to find out, the officiant, the piano player, and one of the groomsmen is stuck in traffic. None of them are coming together, they are just all in traffic.
So I am sitting with Cortney talking to her about Lacy's concern about not filling the chapel.
C: "I don't know what she is worried about. It isn't really that big."
C PM: "That's what she said."
HAHA. Memorable quote from the weekend. The rehearsal gets under way, and I have a few pics, none of them good. Cort was taking the pictures. Not that I intend for those sentences to be misconstrued to mean that she takes bad photos.
After the rehearsal we head to dinner at Famous Dave's. From here on out, I have no photos until we are at the chapel trying to get Lacy dressed.
That night was pretty calm. We watched a movie, and went to sleep around 11. The next morning (the day of the wedding!) we get up and head downstairs because the hotel has free breakfast. This was all very stealth, because we didn't want Lacy and Zach to see each other again until she was walking down the aisle, and we were staying on the same floor in the hotel. Go down, get breakfast and get back upstairs in a hurry. Then we watched RENT. Not a very wedding-y movie, but it was Lacy's choice. And watching a movie on the day of her wedding. We were trying to keep everything low-key and chill. When the movie was over, Lacy starts gathering up her things, because we are delivering her suitcase to Zach, who was going to take everything over to the hotel they were staying in that night. She was about to go get her hair done when she can't find her headband.
L: "I think I it is in with Zach's stuff. Will you call him and ask?"
C: "Sure." *calls Zach* "He doesn't have your headband."
L: "Then the wedding is off!" Total joke, but it was funny.
Fast forward about 5 hours (nothing exciting happens in these hours, save for my curling iron dying when I have 3/4 of my hair curled. Grrr....)
Putting Lacy in her dress.
"Wait, stop, it's caught on something!"
Tying up the corset back. I am a pro at these. Kelly's dress is a corset back too.
Sitting and remaining calm. I think she looks like a cupcake.
Ok, so about this time I am in the middle of writing my toast (yes, I waited until the last minute) and trying to talk Lacy out of her jitters, Kelly hears from someone (maybe Brad?) "Why is this groomsman wearing a pinstripe suit and checkered tie?"
So she races off to save the day. Turns out Shane (the same groomsman who was so late the day before) had his tux messed up at the tux place, but being so last minute, he didn't get to fix it. So Kelly, being awesome as she is, finds Lacy's cousin who isn't quite the same size as Shane, but he will do. He is wearing a black suit, black tie, which is what the groomsmen's tuxes looked like. She has them swapping clothes like no body's business. Shane still had to wear the pinstrip pants, but at least he had the right tie and suit coat. The pinstripes were so small you could hardly see them. I think that was the major crisis of the wedding, and Kelly solved it without even bringing Lacy into it. I have like, three pics of the ceremony, because...it took longer for us to walk down the aisle than it did for them to get married. There wasn't time to take photos!
But reception photos, I have those!
The cake!
The groom's cake. You heard the story of how they met, right?
First dance as Mr. and Mrs.!
BFFs!
More BFFs!
And still more BFFs.
Cutting the cake.
Throwing the bouquet...and here you can see the tables and chairs too.
I have to add another side story to this. Kelly and I have been getting irritated with Paula all weekend. She has decided to make this all about her instead of Lacy. So right after Lacy and Zach make their grand entrance (to Hail to the Chief!), Paula asks Kelly, "Do you think I can ask Lacy if I can go change? I am really uncomfortable." And Kelly reminds her that this is Lacy's day, not hers, and Lacy wants us in our dresses until they leave, and plus, it's not even appropriate to change clothes. Paula gets mad. Then she decides to leave. Leave the reception and go back to Stillwater. Before Lacy has even thrown the bouquet. I would say I am in disbelief, but I am really not. I warned Lacy about this back when she said she was going to ask Paula to be a b-maid, and I said..."You know how Paula is, I think you should ask Cortney." But she didn't, and she told us that she regretted that. She even told Cortney that.
Garter toss!
After the happy couple has left!
The bmaids, and the honorary bmaid!
After Lacy and Zach left, most everyone else starts leaving too, so the girls and I start gathering up our things and packing it into the car. Kelly and I decide that we are going to go back to the hotel when it dawns on us, there is tons of left over champagne! So I run into Lacy's parents who are pretty well hammered at this point. "Where is the leftover booze, and can we have some?"
"Well, sure!" they say. I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't have denied us anything at that moment. Kelly and I get a bottle of champagne each, and we head back to the hotel. *It is important to note that I drove, and had had only one glass of champagne at this point, and that was for my toast*
Back at the hotel, we goofed off, drank champagne, and watched Sex and the City, the movie. And Brad was with us. Poor thing. It was a total girl-fest. He was a great sport.
That's pretty much it for the weekend. We had a blast. Kelly decided that she was going to fly home, to spend a little more time in Tulsa with her future in-laws, so it was just Cortney and I on the drive home. We had got matching shirts while we were in Stillwater, and we both wore them for the roadtrip.
We also stopped at this roadside fruit stand and bought jam and tomatoes. I love stopping at stands like that.
It was great fun! I have a ton of other things to update you all on, mostly Disney stuff, but since this has been a very long update, I am going to wait until later to do it!
Hope you've all had a great weekend!
Oklahoma Weekend part 2!
When last we left off, it was Thursday night and we were all going to bed after a long night of Bacheloretting it up.
We all slept in until about 9:30 or 10, which (for me at least, is like a vacation!). Showered, cleaned up, and cleaned up the room, checking out around lunch time. After checking out, we went to the last restaurant that was on our list to go to before leaving Stillwater. Hideaway Pizza! No pics, but I had grilled chicken and cheddar pizza, it was just as good as I remembered.
After lunch, we wandered around Chris's Spirit Store for a while, and stocked up on some new OSU essentials. I got an OSU lisence plate frame that says OSU Alumni on it.
Oh, forgot to mention that at this point it was just Kelly, Cortney, Paula and I. Lacy had already headed back to Tulsa because she had some things to get done. Then after we left Chris's, Paula went to go pick up a few things, and Cortney, Kelly and I walked back over to campus. As we are passing the new Alumni Center, I realize that I have never seen it completed. So we decide to take a detour and go check it out. It was beautiful. OSU already has a beautiful campus, but this was just great. I am so proud to be an alumni.
This was hanging up just outside the women's restroom. Pistol Pete is our mascot. And yes, I realize he is creepy, but I want to make a replica of this soooo bad.
Go POKES!!
This is what the main seating area looks like. So pretty!! While we were there, Kelly applied for her and Brad's joint alumni membership. She wasn't sure she could since they aren't married yet, but both of their dues were up, and the woman working there let her. I also renewed my membership, because I knew my dues were up.
After that, we bolt to the car, because we have like, an hour and a half before the rehearsal starts and Tulsa is an hour drive away!
Little did I realize that, yes, Tulsa is an hour drive away, but the chapel is further than that! We hop in the car and start driving along. Finally, somewhere between Tulsa and Stillwater we realize that there is no way we are going to make it in time to go to the hotel and change and then go to the chapel, so we figure that we will just change at the chapel. Actually, Paula starts changing in the back seat.
Oh, but wait, another slight problem...the gas light comes on. That's right, I had a quarter of a tank of gas, which should have been fine no problem, but with all the backdragging from the wind, I was out of gas. So Paula is fully changed, we need to be at the chapel in about 30 minutes, and we still aren't quite to Tulsa yet! We zip into this gas station, Kelly and I yank our clothes out of our suitcases in the back and run into the gas station to change in the bathroom while Cortney and Paula put gas in the car. Have you ever had to change clothes in a gas station bathroom? Not a cool thing...the floor was grody, and we are trying to stand on our shoes while putting on dresses....just not something I would recommend. Back at the car, finally changed, Paula offers to drive, cause she has been able to fix her make up and brush her hair and everything, and I graciously accept. She also knows her way around Tulsa better than the rest of us as the rest of us are from TX.
Then at 4:32, we bust into the chapel, tripping over ourselves and laughing at the craze that has been the past hour and a half. And we are only 2 minutes late. Much to my amazement, Lacy is totally calm.
"Hey you guys. I see you found it all right." Yup, sure did, Lace, thanks.
Come to find out, the officiant, the piano player, and one of the groomsmen is stuck in traffic. None of them are coming together, they are just all in traffic.
So I am sitting with Cortney talking to her about Lacy's concern about not filling the chapel.
C: "I don't know what she is worried about. It isn't really that big."
C PM: "That's what she said."
HAHA. Memorable quote from the weekend. The rehearsal gets under way, and I have a few pics, none of them good. Cort was taking the pictures. Not that I intend for those sentences to be misconstrued to mean that she takes bad photos.
After the rehearsal we head to dinner at Famous Dave's. From here on out, I have no photos until we are at the chapel trying to get Lacy dressed.
That night was pretty calm. We watched a movie, and went to sleep around 11. The next morning (the day of the wedding!) we get up and head downstairs because the hotel has free breakfast. This was all very stealth, because we didn't want Lacy and Zach to see each other again until she was walking down the aisle, and we were staying on the same floor in the hotel. Go down, get breakfast and get back upstairs in a hurry. Then we watched RENT. Not a very wedding-y movie, but it was Lacy's choice. And watching a movie on the day of her wedding. We were trying to keep everything low-key and chill. When the movie was over, Lacy starts gathering up her things, because we are delivering her suitcase to Zach, who was going to take everything over to the hotel they were staying in that night. She was about to go get her hair done when she can't find her headband.
L: "I think I it is in with Zach's stuff. Will you call him and ask?"
C: "Sure." *calls Zach* "He doesn't have your headband."
L: "Then the wedding is off!" Total joke, but it was funny.
Fast forward about 5 hours (nothing exciting happens in these hours, save for my curling iron dying when I have 3/4 of my hair curled. Grrr....)
Putting Lacy in her dress.
"Wait, stop, it's caught on something!"
Tying up the corset back. I am a pro at these. Kelly's dress is a corset back too.
Sitting and remaining calm. I think she looks like a cupcake.
Ok, so about this time I am in the middle of writing my toast (yes, I waited until the last minute) and trying to talk Lacy out of her jitters, Kelly hears from someone (maybe Brad?) "Why is this groomsman wearing a pinstripe suit and checkered tie?"
So she races off to save the day. Turns out Shane (the same groomsman who was so late the day before) had his tux messed up at the tux place, but being so last minute, he didn't get to fix it. So Kelly, being awesome as she is, finds Lacy's cousin who isn't quite the same size as Shane, but he will do. He is wearing a black suit, black tie, which is what the groomsmen's tuxes looked like. She has them swapping clothes like no body's business. Shane still had to wear the pinstrip pants, but at least he had the right tie and suit coat. The pinstripes were so small you could hardly see them. I think that was the major crisis of the wedding, and Kelly solved it without even bringing Lacy into it. I have like, three pics of the ceremony, because...it took longer for us to walk down the aisle than it did for them to get married. There wasn't time to take photos!
But reception photos, I have those!
The cake!
The groom's cake. You heard the story of how they met, right?
First dance as Mr. and Mrs.!
BFFs!
More BFFs!
And still more BFFs.
Cutting the cake.
Throwing the bouquet...and here you can see the tables and chairs too.
I have to add another side story to this. Kelly and I have been getting irritated with Paula all weekend. She has decided to make this all about her instead of Lacy. So right after Lacy and Zach make their grand entrance (to Hail to the Chief!), Paula asks Kelly, "Do you think I can ask Lacy if I can go change? I am really uncomfortable." And Kelly reminds her that this is Lacy's day, not hers, and Lacy wants us in our dresses until they leave, and plus, it's not even appropriate to change clothes. Paula gets mad. Then she decides to leave. Leave the reception and go back to Stillwater. Before Lacy has even thrown the bouquet. I would say I am in disbelief, but I am really not. I warned Lacy about this back when she said she was going to ask Paula to be a b-maid, and I said..."You know how Paula is, I think you should ask Cortney." But she didn't, and she told us that she regretted that. She even told Cortney that.
Garter toss!
After the happy couple has left!
The bmaids, and the honorary bmaid!
After Lacy and Zach left, most everyone else starts leaving too, so the girls and I start gathering up our things and packing it into the car. Kelly and I decide that we are going to go back to the hotel when it dawns on us, there is tons of left over champagne! So I run into Lacy's parents who are pretty well hammered at this point. "Where is the leftover booze, and can we have some?"
"Well, sure!" they say. I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't have denied us anything at that moment. Kelly and I get a bottle of champagne each, and we head back to the hotel. *It is important to note that I drove, and had had only one glass of champagne at this point, and that was for my toast*
Back at the hotel, we goofed off, drank champagne, and watched Sex and the City, the movie. And Brad was with us. Poor thing. It was a total girl-fest. He was a great sport.
That's pretty much it for the weekend. We had a blast. Kelly decided that she was going to fly home, to spend a little more time in Tulsa with her future in-laws, so it was just Cortney and I on the drive home. We had got matching shirts while we were in Stillwater, and we both wore them for the roadtrip.
We also stopped at this roadside fruit stand and bought jam and tomatoes. I love stopping at stands like that.
It was great fun! I have a ton of other things to update you all on, mostly Disney stuff, but since this has been a very long update, I am going to wait until later to do it!
Hope you've all had a great weekend!
My cousin's wedding is less than 2 weeks away 
just hope no one makes a scene, hehe!
we will leave Orlando at 6:40pm, and arrive back in Dallas at 8:25pm. So plenty of time for parks that day too!! 
Great pictures! What a beautiful wedding! 
Talk to you later!
