Attack of the stress monster
After the rehearsal, my fiance and I went back to our room with his family. We visited for a little while and they left to go to their rooms to relax a little before the rehearsal dinner. On their way out, my fiance’s nephew figured out that our suite had a door bell. He figured it out a few times, if you know what I mean. A few minutes after the family left, the doorbell rang again. We figured the family came back, but we were surprised when room service rolled in with champagne and chocolate dipped strawberries. Lovely! We called up some friends of ours that had come in from Colorado and invited them to share in our wedding bounty. We really wanted to find time to see our out of town guests since they had been kind enough to travel long distances to celebrate with us. That is the benefit of inviting the out of town guests to the rehearsal dinner. You get some semi-private time to visit with people who traveled to see you, because at the wedding it is really hard to spend any quality time with people.
So, we sat and enjoyed our champagne before we headed over to the restaurant, our normal Friday night hang out, for dinner. Dad pulled out the stops at the restaurant. We started with fried calamari and marinated eggplant salad. That was before the salad and dinner. Dinner ended with a Lasagna cake for my fiance. He kept joking that he wanted a lasagna cake for his groom’s cake so my mom had a picture of lasagna scanned onto an Italian rum cake to surprise him. It was great!
Unfortunately, the champagne on an empty stomach plus the fried food and garlic bread plus the lasagna and cake did not set well with my stomach. I went to the grocery store and picked up some Tums and some snacks for the next day. If anything had been drilled into me, it was the the bride NEEDED to eat on the wedding day.
We went back to our room and went to bed. I felt awful. I had taken Tums, but to no avail and I had a headache. Mom had made me an emergency pack with Advil among other things for the wedding day, but she had it in her purse. Not exactly helpful at 3am.
THINGS I LEARNED: Make sure to pack an emergency medical kit with band-aids, pain medication, Tums, safety pins, bobby pins, and other medical sundries. Make sure you have it with you as soon as you leave your house.
So I decided, against my better judgement, to take the only pain killer that we had, Tylenol PM. I knew it was risky to take a pain killer that was coupled with sleep medication, but the headache was too much for me to take. Little did I know. The Tylenol PM made me sick to my stomach. So I spent the rest of the night alternating between the bed and the bathroom floor. Needless to say, my fiance didn’t get much sleep either. Maybe that is what we got for eschewing the norm of staying apart the night before the wedding. Who knows. What I do know is that neither of us slept until about the time we were supposed to get up. And of course we had not set an alarm, because normally we are up by 7am. Thank goodness we had told our Colorado friends that they could stop by before 10am if they wanted to drop off our gift. The doorbell woke us up at 9:15. So much for a relaxing morning.
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