details, details….
I promised details and now I guess I have to deliver, yes? Details I can give you. Wedding photos I can not. I was a bit busy that day and didn’t take any photos. Our photographer shot real film because, well, frankly it’s just better than digital. The photo I already posted is the only one I have of the wedding until the contact sheets come in…so…
Words. I can offer you words. Fair enough?
We woke up on the morning of the wedding to a torrential downpour. I mean torrential. I know people tend to bandy that word about when really it’s only a heavy rain, but seriously. Sheets of water. From the sky. Torrential. Billy and I, now knowing our house well enough to read the mold on the wet wall, immediately ran down to the basement. We got down there just as the water started to rush in under the back basement door.
So picture this: Billy in boxers, bailing out the outdoor basement stairwell, where we found that the neighbor’s gutter was draining. (Yes, we just discovered that their gutter drains into our stairwell. I wonder why our basement floods with every heavy rain.) Me in T-shirt and boxers and glasses, red/plum hair sticking up every which way, trying to suck up the water with the shopvac as it runs in, hoping I won’t get electrocuted. The doorbell rings. It’s the member of the catering staff we’d asked to arrive before the others to help us finish cleaning because we’d lost ten hours of prep time the day before putting a rain tarp up over the deck. So I answer the door looking like the lovely bride I am, the cater waiter is a total trooper and gets to work, and I can go about showering and taming the yarn hair.
Next my beloved bridesmaid Christina (hi Xina!) and her boy turn up with armloads of gorgeous flowers, because she was deputized to do the flowers. Let it be officially known that you can make beautiful floral arrangements from deli flowers. Yes, all our flowers came from a deli in Park Slope that has amazing flowers. (The one on Garfield and Seventh, for you local folk.) She and fellow beloved bridesmaid Alicia (hi Maude) worked magic. I wish I’d snapped some photos for you. Amazing. I love them. I adore them. All hail Christina and Alicia, mighty mighty conquerers in the wedding flower wars.
Oh yeah…and so then it stopped raining. And all these people showed up. And we had a ceremony and they tell me that now I’m married to this great boy named Billy. Cool.
The wedding was wonderful. So we only had one bathroom because the basement flooded. So what. It turned out fine. Surrounded by people we love. Great food. Best wedding cake in the history of baked goods (Brooklyn Blackout cake with vanilla buttercream frosting, baby. Decorated with real daisies put on by the hands of my real best friends, the aforementioned goddesses of wedding flowers. Yea!)
Okay, next the honeymoon. Well, actually first comes the wedding night where Billy and I bring the couch back downstairs by ourselves because the living room looks so empty with all the rented tables folded and stacked. My baby and I, we work well together. No, this does not mean we’ll help you move. Yes, I changed out of my dress before moving furniture.
And THEN the honeymoon. Billy’s boss’s house in West Hampton. Or Westhampton. Rich people and the stores and restaurants they like. Weird. We were visitors on another planet. West Hampton…we don’t need to do that again. But the house had great views and lots of light (it was HUGE and modern sleek. Not my style but interesting to see how the other half vacations). There was the beach, and there was a bike for each of us at the house. We got in the car twice to drive out to Sag Harbor and Shelter Island, where we felt much more comfortable and found much better food (healthy and reasonably priced as opposed to no vegetarian options, pricey, everything smothered in cheese in West Hampton). In Shelter Island we rented a double kayak and puttered around the harbor. Saw lots of jellyfish, egrets seagulls, etc. It was lovely.
And we hung out a lot. And ate frozen yogurt. And slept in. And snuggled. There was a jacuzzi but we couldn’t figure out how to turn on the jets.
And then we came home. Here we are. Back to work. I did a bit of knitting on the honeymoon, before my wrist started to hurt. This is a new and alarming development, and it was brought on by the Alpaca Silk. I’m using Addi Naturas because that’s all I have in the size needle I needed, and I think I should have used Turbos. There’s way too much drag with each stitch and I think that’s what’s screwed up my wrist. Billy’s working on it, though (ah, convenient to have married a physical therapist) and I should be able to get back to Lara soon. Other knitting doesn’t bother it at all, luckily. What if I couldn’t knit? Gasp! The horror! Pictures of the WIPs to come.
Jeez, I don’t check in for a while and you go and get married. Well CONGRATULATIONS! And may I say that’s a lovely photo– you look so happy!
Posted by: Sutton
So you honeymooned on a carnivorous planet, eh? It sounds like your wedding was really warm (not warm as in temperature warm, but you know) and lovely. I want to see the flowers! And the CAKE! And more of the DRESS (I am currently obsessed with silk dupioni)! And more of the radiant bride and groom! But, seeing as you’re a writer, and I have a tad bit of imagination, I can picture it all in my head for now. Take care of that wrist, missus.
Posted by: Mariko
OMG. I loved that. I can just picture you, darlin, doing all those things, running wildly about and sucking up water, and then looking into his eyes and MEANING it, and then moving furniture. Perfect. Thank you for sharing this with us….. Congrats! Again!
Posted by: Rachael
A honeymoon with lots o’knitting time sounds poifect to me. Buy more Turbos!
Posted by: claudia
Jeez, I don’t check in for a while and you go and get married. Well CONGRATULATIONS! And may I say that’s a lovely photo– you look so happy!
Posted by: Sutton
So you honeymooned on a carnivorous planet, eh? It sounds like your wedding was really warm (not warm as in temperature warm, but you know) and lovely. I want to see the flowers! And the CAKE! And more of the DRESS (I am currently obsessed with silk dupioni)! And more of the radiant bride and groom! But, seeing as you’re a writer, and I have a tad bit of imagination, I can picture it all in my head for now. Take care of that wrist, missus.
Posted by: Mariko
OMG. I loved that. I can just picture you, darlin, doing all those things, running wildly about and sucking up water, and then looking into his eyes and MEANING it, and then moving furniture. Perfect. Thank you for sharing this with us….. Congrats! Again!
Posted by: Rachael
A honeymoon with lots o’knitting time sounds poifect to me. Buy more Turbos!
Posted by: claudia
pictures? who needs pictures? all the pictures we need are right there in your voice. your lovely MARRIED voice. you lucky happy girl, you! congratulations.
Posted by: J Strizzy
That is just ONE ROMANTIC recounting, and the happiness is evident in your tone. Way to go and all the best!
Posted by: Norma
And here I was really hoping for a shot of you bailing water out of the basement. Now THAT’S wedding day glamour.
But words are good. Words, words, words – they’re all we have to go on.
Posted by: David
Oh yes, we’ll take words. How great that you & Billy began your wedding day with teamwork! It sounds like everything ended up perfect: wonderful friends, wonderful food, etc. And a honeymoon in a beach house with bikes and snuggles is perfect, too. (Are rich people not vegetarian? None of them? Weirdos.)
That thing you said about not being able to knit — don’t ever say that again.
Posted by: alison
Welcome back! It sounds like quite a day; I can’t wait to see photos of it all 🙂
Posted by: Becky
Aaaw. That’s pretty much all I can muster right now, but you know what I mean. Sounds really wonderful.
Married a physical therapist. How convenient!
Posted by: Iris
Your wedding sounds truly beautiful. I’m curious about the cake. My ex used to do wedding cakes and I’ve never heard of a Brooklyn Blackout. What kind of cake is it?
Jon
Posted by: Jon
well, you made me cry tears of joy. hearing about your day and vacation was really sweet! Take care of that wrist!!
Posted by: pattie
Oh, all that sounds so lovely–and real. You’ve got a gift for knowing what’s important in life (you’re WAY too young to be so wise! hee). Skip all the store-bought hoopla and bring the heart and hands along…congratulations on a wedding worth all its memories!
Posted by: teresa
Yay for nice cater waiters, deli flowers, good friends, and a cute physical therapist husband. What more could a girl ask for? Sounds like a great day! Can’t WAIT to see pictures.
Posted by: Carrie
pictures? who needs pictures? all the pictures we need are right there in your voice. your lovely MARRIED voice. you lucky happy girl, you! congratulations.
Posted by: J Strizzy
That is just ONE ROMANTIC recounting, and the happiness is evident in your tone. Way to go and all the best!
Posted by: Norma
And here I was really hoping for a shot of you bailing water out of the basement. Now THAT’S wedding day glamour.
But words are good. Words, words, words – they’re all we have to go on.
Posted by: David
Oh yes, we’ll take words. How great that you & Billy began your wedding day with teamwork! It sounds like everything ended up perfect: wonderful friends, wonderful food, etc. And a honeymoon in a beach house with bikes and snuggles is perfect, too. (Are rich people not vegetarian? None of them? Weirdos.)
That thing you said about not being able to knit — don’t ever say that again.
Posted by: alison
Welcome back! It sounds like quite a day; I can’t wait to see photos of it all 🙂
Posted by: Becky
Aaaw. That’s pretty much all I can muster right now, but you know what I mean. Sounds really wonderful.
Married a physical therapist. How convenient!
Posted by: Iris
Your wedding sounds truly beautiful. I’m curious about the cake. My ex used to do wedding cakes and I’ve never heard of a Brooklyn Blackout. What kind of cake is it?
Jon
Posted by: Jon
well, you made me cry tears of joy. hearing about your day and vacation was really sweet! Take care of that wrist!!
Posted by: pattie
Oh, all that sounds so lovely–and real. You’ve got a gift for knowing what’s important in life (you’re WAY too young to be so wise! hee). Skip all the store-bought hoopla and bring the heart and hands along…congratulations on a wedding worth all its memories!
Posted by: teresa
Yay for nice cater waiters, deli flowers, good friends, and a cute physical therapist husband. What more could a girl ask for? Sounds like a great day! Can’t WAIT to see pictures.
Posted by: Carrie