I headed down to Lewiston, grudgingly, on Saturday afternoon because I had to go to the rehearsal and because Kim wanted us to stay in Lewiston the night before the wedding. I headed for Hell's Gate state park, where Kim was having a picnic and wanted to give me something, but I never found them. There's two parks in that area, one on each side of the river, and the signs disappeared and I ended up going to the wrong park first, having to turn around, and then go to the next. They were apparently in an unfamilar part of the park, so I never found them anyway. I broke down crying in the car because I was so stressed out about being late, so angry that I had to come away from being with Tyler and his family and Doc so I could serve Bridezilla, angry that I'd driven all the way over to and around Hell's Gate for nothing, and so tired because I'd only gotten a few hours of sleep the night before.
I headed to the church after that after getting turned around a few times (Lewiston is hard to drive in) and waited an hour for everyone to show up. They eventually did, and Kim gave me her present...a truly ugly blue t-shirt with Kim and Joe's name, wedding date a huge marlin, and a graduation cap on the back, and a truly beautiful bracelet of pale grey, blue, and lavender sea pearls and silver beads. All the bridesmaids got one.
The rehearsal took ages. Stand here, walk here, slow down, turn this way. The bridesmaids' roles were fairly simple, so we really didn't have much to do but stand there.
We finally left the church at 11:30 and went to the hotel. It was Kim, her little sister Kasey (maid of honor),
The next morning, I got up around 6 or 6:30 (after rolling over on poor
Because it was raining, we decided to get dressed at the church, so thank heavens the photographer didn't come and take pictures of us. Kim had said we'd get breakfast at the hotel restaurant, but that never happened, so
More later, guests are here.