| | i've been to many weddings in the past two years, but the most recent was for my roommate. (both during and post college. we were roommates until about a month before her wedding.) it was the most beautiful and personal (imo) wedding of the ones i've been to recently... and required lots of time in the car to get there. (not to mention the gas money)
my fiance thought i was crazy but i told him i was going with or without him b/c it was so important for me to be there for the wedding. my roommate has been a great friend to me and helped me out and been there for me when nobody else was. he decided to be valiant and told me he wouldn't let me go alone, which ended up being a huge relief. probably the worst part of the whole ordeal was that we didn't really have enough money to stay in a hotel... and the wedding was 8 hours away!
so we did the insane thing and left at 6am for a 4pm wedding. we made it, exhausted, but on time.
ah, sunrise... haven't seen one of those in awhile... haha...
my roommate and her dad walking down the aisle (my camera doesn't do so well indoors.. esp not after i fell down some stairs when it was looped on my wrist, thereby whacking it on the railing and putting a nice dent in it...tho it seems to be just fine outside.)
we got a bit turned around on the way to the reception due to a detour and having never been to maryland before, LoL. but it was a scenic route and i snapped a pic of these deer along the way...
a pic of one of the bridesmaid's bouquets (i loved her color scheme: ivory, green and a little brown.. lovely earth tones)
bride & groom
roomies! ...she had a lovely lace mermaid gown..
and don't worry, we weren't entirely insane.. we only drove about 2 hours after the wedding to get to virginia where i had a friend's family we could stay the night with instead of making the 8 hour drive again that night. it was a godsend b/c we never would have made it through another drive like that. so we slept in a little the next morning and left around noon to finish the trip. the best part of that was waking up to homemade pancakes, YUM!
all in all, i'm so glad that i made the effort to go. my roommate was so appreciative that we came all that way and i know i would have regretted not going to her wedding. (esp after making some effort to go to other weddings for people who have since stabbed me in the back and who i realized were not true friends, but those are stories for another day.)
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| | Posted 7/14/2007 6:33 AM - 8 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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you & your roomie are soo cute!! ya know it might've been rough driving all the way out there but this is something you'll always remember fondly and your roomie will never forget all that you did to be there for her. 
