I'm MURRIED!!!

That's right y'all I am officially a married woman. Mrs. Patrick Murphy :-)

And yes I know the title is spelled "murried" cause thats how I say it cause it fun :)

If I was left on earth for being sinful than thank god cause at least I got to enjoy my wedding and honeymoon! ;-) But we did also have a beer called Salvation which could have saved us as well. My brother was in charge of the brew selection and decided Salvation would be a perfect beer selection for a wedding held on the day of the supposed Reckoning. We halso had a beer called Red Barn because we have a huge barn ... It's not really red more of a pink barn lol.

So this is the story of the week before the wedding. As you know I live in Dallas and the wedding was back in Bucks County, PA so I went back a week before to help get things ready. Nothing can ever go smoothly for me I swear. I'm marrying a Murphy which has made me ultra pron to Murphy's Law "what ever can happen will happen". Oh not to mention 5 weeks before the wedding I had an accident in the kitchen and gave myself Second degree burns on my right hand fingers. Uhg it was not starting off well.

So like every bride I was checking the weather as soon as it was in the 10day focast. It was a little more important for me being as our wedding was completely outside. We did have tents for the reception but the ceremony and cocktail hour were not under tents and I strongly disliked the idea of having to get married under a tent. But i was also in the mind set that what happens happens and we will deal with it when it does and I refused to let it stress me out.

BUT the weather was forcasted rainy the ENTIRE week leading up to the wedding with rain on the wedding day as well. I kept watching it though and it mostly stayed at 50% but than 2 days before it dropped to 30% ... praise the lord! Although it POURED the entire week almost. The first day back was good and we got tons of gardening done and the next day was good but finally the rain broke at 4pm and finally were forced to stop soon after because of lightning. So the landscaping prep had officially ended that day but everything was gorgeous and I could not have asked for more.

The rain did prevent us from setting up lighting and the tent company didn't get the tents up till the day before! I was rediculous actually but I won't go into it. Not to mention our rental company we got everything else through tried to screw us with the dance floor. When we went in to finalize everything they ask us if we have sub floor for the dancefloor to go on top of.

Ummm what do you mean? Yeh they told us they would not give us the floor without a sub floor and they didnt have any for us because all theirs was rented out. They told us the sub flooring should be provied by the peole we get the tents from but how does that makes sence when you are the people we are getting our dance floor from and this is needed if it rains AND we were never told that if it rains you will need a special sub floorling to go under the dance floor so it doesnt break apart and get destroyed? No one ever told us this and being as there knew it was an outdoor wedding they should have. Basically that day was the worst day, 5 days out. Basically everything got figured out and they eneded up magically finding some for us to use.

Also we decided instead of having the tents in the back yard we would move them to the driveway. Our house isn't a typical house so what you are picturing is not what our driveway looks like. It's red gravel and has a ton of space and actually is surrounded by my favorite gardens on the property. It's like a big jungle! I actually think everything worked out for the best. I don't think the tents would have been half has beautiful if they had been in the yard and this way people weren't sinking in the mud :-)

My mom was really worried about my dress on the red gravel but I was ok getting a little dirty. I had actually bought rain boots that my photographer and I had decided would be awesome and would allow me to stromp through all the mud in the world! Glorious!

Another thing that went wrong but ended up working out was my personalized escort cards that were to be tied around mason jars. See my printer back in Texas kept eating them when I would print the names on them and I ran out of the cards with just 10 people left to do. It was horrible so I had to order more but I had to have them delived to PA because they weren't going to come in time. Well when I tried to print them on my parents printer it was no luck, it straight refused to even recognize anything being in the basket. So than my dad took them to a printer place along with the font type I was using and they could not do it either. It was so aweful lol I know it's stupid now but I was freaking out because these were my babies. They were my favorite detail of the wedding and I had worked so had to get them done only to fall short. What did I do you ask? Well my bridesmaid Heather (who happens to be the most talented painter/artist eveR) hand wrote them out matching the font pretty darn good I must say and saved my sanity.

Heather also made a sign we put at the end of the driveway. See our driveway is SUPER long and you actually cannot see the house from the road so we wanted to make sure people knew THIS was the place. She also made a second sign for the parking lot people had to park in. Yes thats right. We were originally going to have valet and have the cars parked in our neighbors side yard that lines our driveway BUT because of all the rain we could not do that. Luck for us we have a HUGE greenhouse across the street and they let us use it. So people parked and then we have a suttle to take poeple to the wedding :-) I know so great right?! I worked out so great and my brothers friend drove the big van my dad rented to be the suttle so all we did is pay for a one day car rental. SUPER cost effective if i do say so. I'd like to take credit but that was all my smart Dadda who thought that one up. I was thinking a school bus but being as the tents were taking up most of the dirveway there was no way a school bus could turn around. anywear.

I had also planned on making a rice crispy treat gooms cake. Well I forgot to order the square molds to make them so I decided well I will just make them in a thick pan and cut them and than arrange them into a grooms cake. I even got small brown paper bags (againa thanks to my Heatho for finding them) and everyone helped to stamp dandelions onto them so that guests could take them home as a favor!

Yeh that did not work out. It is WAY hard to cut them even and each one the same size so when trying to piece them into a huge tiered square cake it just wasn't working out. So than Rach, or maybe it was even my mom suggested we just put them IN the bags and have our caterer arrange them for people to take. Genius. Good to know I have all these smarties around me :-)

My MOH and brideasmaid Heather and I also decided to get an airbrush tan which was very funny because not only can you NOT get wet for 10 hours but they also dont tell you that when you wake up the next day you are a different race lol I'm serious, I am a pale irish/english gal and I woke up and I was middleeastern lol It was a hoot. After I showered though more than half came off so it ended up being perfect and I didn't look so horribly pale in Mexico either ;-)

I had also bought bubble tubes in which we planne on putting one on each chair for the ceremony so that when Patrick and I walked down the ilse as Husband and Wife everyone could blow pretty bubbles!

Tying these tiny bows was a little time consuming but way worth it I think :-)