The Highlights: The location, the flowers, the food, the open bar and the best wedding DJ of all time. OF ALL TIME. There are very few good wedding DJs out there, but this guy was all sorts of win. Other highlights and quotes to remember:
Milroy and Avent having a Morris Day & the Time dance-off.
_________________________________________________________
Ladies of Prado, reunited!
Sarah, Stephanie, Jen, Zynara, & I
______________________________________________________________
The Book of Love by Peter Gabriel - The absolute PERFECT first dance song after a long and arduous search.
______________________________________________________________
Seeing "little Vinny" and Carly Franco all grown up. It's very weird to see the kids you used to babysit after the little one just left her high school graduation party. Carly is the spitting image of her mother, and she and Vinny were choreographed! It was too cute.
______________________________________________________________
Sally: Nobody fell down!
Mom: Nope, Matt's girlfriend fell down a couple times.
Sally: Well...nobody from our family fell down!
*Sally & I high five*
______________________________________________________________
Casey's performance. Some ministers quote the Bible or the Torah. Ours quoted The Velveteen Rabbit. Getting Mike's girlfriend to get her internet minister license was the best idea ever.
______________________________________________________________
My 10 year old nephew, Brandon, adding two bridesmaids to his list as "girlfriends number 3 & 4". Also, Kelly Franco teaching Brandon how to "mow the lawn" and "take out the trash".
______________________________________________________________
Taking over the last empty room and hanging out in the jacuzzi tub for an hour after everyone went to bed. I have been living with my parents again for over a year now, and staying the night in a beautiful modern hotel room with a giant jacuzzi tub and a pillowtop king bed was better than anything else in the universe ever.
______________________________________________________________
*Milroy watching little Vinny watching Jovauna*
Milroy: Hey Vin
Little Vinny: Yeah?
Milroy: Will you quit being a little bitch and go shoot fish in a barrel?
Little Vinny: Got it, coach.
______________________________________________________________
Milroy: Hey, your hair's still up!
Sally: Yeah...I can't figure out how to take it down.
______________________________________________________________
Vinny and I, after bonding as children by making fun of my little brother together, getting to mock him as we witness his first walk of shame with the maid of honor. It brought a tear to my eye. A big, assholey tear.
______________________________________________________________
Mike calling me an alcoholic in the best-man speech, then making up for it by taking the fall for me when Jennie found out I told the bridesmaids the Special Olympics story.
______________________________________________________________
Roop showed up and wasn't on heroin!
______________________________________________________________
Jennie's face when we called her Mrs. Fazio the next day.
______________________________________________________________
I avoided the mother of the bride the WHOLE night! Super mega über win.
______________________________________________________________
Me: Daddy! Come dance with me!
Dad: If I dance to Sweet Caroline, does it make me a Red Sox fan? Because I have standards.
______________________________________________________________
The "Jentinis". I still don't know what's in them, other than a lot of gin, but they were great.
______________________________________________________________
In the end everything went great. Jennie stayed very calm until about 5 minutes before they came to get us out of the room. Everyone had a good time. The few panicky things (like Jen's earring breaking and all of us bridesmaids feeling like there was more cake on our faces than the dessert table) were forgotten and the fun little touches Jennie planned (like the flip flops and the candy bar) were huge hits.
OH! And one more memory. As I was all the way down the aisle and turning to take my spot in the big line of green I was starting to get nervous. Am I in the right spot? Do I look terribly fat? Is everything gonna go right? Suddenly all that tension was broken by the small-yet-adorable voice of Dracen, the ring bearer. He exclaimed to his mommy as they were about halfway down the aisle, "I'm doing GOOD!" It was so perfect and cute and reminded us all what we were really doing there and set the mood for the whole night.
Congratulations, Vinny and Jennie Fazio!
