Six Years Ago...

....Jerk Face and I said 'I do'

It's been six years.  Six years?
My goodness.

June 4, 2005

We are officially closer to 10 years... and therefore closer to 20 years.. which is almost 40...  And then 75?  and then I guess death. My, what a rosy outlook. That's what living with Jerk Face does to a girl... 

We released butterflies at our wedding... A few weeks prior to our wedding, Jerk Face had went to Las Vegas with a group of his Marine buddies and lost $500 in less than hour : "Wesley Snipes says 'Bet on black!'"   Wesley Snipes was wrong. And because Wesley Snipes was wrong or because my future husband was an idiot?, we couldn't afford Monarch butterflies.. so I was forced to get their ugly step-sisters: The Painted Ladies.
...Maybe THIS is where 'Jerk Face' originates from?

Ugly Painted Lady on my dress

My cake.

I hated my cake.  HATED.

I brought a picture to the cake lady of exactly what I wanted.

Now, to be fair, we went to her house... she was probably in her mid to late 60's.. and will probably never be on Cake Wars or something like that... but! The fact remains that I gave her a picture of what I wanted and she said she could do it....

I wanted something like:

   

 or maybe even...

   

or perhaps...

 

but my cake? I'm too embarrassed to post a picture!

but I will.

for you,

my dear readers.

*sigh*

 are you ready?

...

..

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I'm not...
but here goes nothing....

What in the heck?!

I know... the differences are subtle.

You MAY need to go back to the above cake pictures to see that they are in fact *NOT* the same...

I remember my Mom saying to me that "nobody knows what it was supposed to look like.. and it's really not that bad..."  

My Mother lied to me on my wedding day.

It did, however, taste really good... so there's that...

I'm thinking about how ugly this cake is...

I think I had cake in my ear and up my nose for the rest of the night.

(P.S. Jerk Face just told me that I looked good wearing the cake...

 yep, the romance is still alive...)

and now for some photos of the day:

My wedding party

On the party bus

I don't know who's motorcycle this was....

and we arrived!  

(an hour late)

The snack table

*My in-laws made the window things 

and my family made the pillars*

My brothers and sister letting Jerk Face in on the

"Cheers it Bitch" photo

Our last dance of the evening

Happy Anniversary Jerk Face!

"Love is like a dream. Marriage is the alarm clock."

*some of the pictures are pictures of pictures...
and it's not the greatest quality...
*cake pictures from here and here