Brian and Melissa

>mach zehnder modulatorмебелиwe haven’t updated this in forever. Not much to say really, we’re living married life. It’s great. Well, it’s the exact same as non married life, so it’s as great as it was before, which is still great. Except now people talk to us about babies, which is dumb.

Anyhoo, just wanted to post that today is the day last year that we got engaged!!!!!!!! It’s so weird what can happen in a year! It’s crazy. It’s weird that we werent even engaged a year before getting married. I can’t believe it’s all over still!
And yesterday was our three month wedding monthaversary. Not that we’re celebrating month to month, but just saying, married three months.  (And still working on thank you cards! We’re doing something super special for them, so they are taking longer than usual. But totally worth it in the end.)
that’s it for now. офис обзавеждане

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We haven’t been updating, because well.. not much is going on.

Being married feels exactly the same as it did before, and now we just get to carry on with our lives. which is great!

Anyway, nothing else to say. But here’s a taste of what’s to come once I stop being lazy and upload our honeymoon and wedding pics!

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Well, we are back from our honeymoon!!! Now I can write a real blog!

So let’s start with the wedding day, and then we’ll lead up to how we got back from our honeymoon.

So the wedding day was insane, it was everything we pictured! We probably only had a few hours of sleep the night before, because we were too nervous. I woke up, showered did all that, we were talking about how we had such a long time before I had to leave to go get my hair done. But then all of the sudden it was time to leave! I started freaking out (Brian has a good picture of this), and then I left.

I went and got my hair done, and if you know from the previously entries, it was really awkward driving with a veil on, and also everyone was staring at me. I sat in front of the grand for an hour and so many people were staring.

Finally I go into the Grand, and Mery our coordinator is there, and my makeup lady gets there. She does my make up, and then Brian calls and says he’s there. We told him not to come in, because I still didn’t have my dress on. So he circled the block a million times. While I was getting my makeup done, our photographer called to see if we were still going to distillery because it was really cloudy out, and they were calling for the hugest storm ever. I made the call and said we’d head down there, and if it started storming we’d turn back. Brian and I were both really upset, because we really wanted our photos done there, and it looked like we weren’t gonna get them.

Makeup was done and then I went to put my dress on. Anyway, a while later the dress was finally on and they called Brian in. He stood there with his back to me, and I walked towards him. This was the most nervous I was the whole night. Which was weird. He turned around and saw me and it was so awesome, I can’t even put it into words, so I won’t try. But it was amazing.

Then we headed down to get our photos taken, and that was so difficult. It got really REALLY hot outside and gross. And our photographer had us stand in all these positions that killed our legs, and made my feet kill even more. After photos, we headed back to the Grand. And OMG we were soooooooooooo happy that it didn’t rain. Like seriously!!

We get back to the Grand, get out of the limo and like all these cars are honking at us and stuff. It was pretty cool. Everyone was staring at us, even when we were getting our photos done. So much attention, it was awesome.

Anyway, i’ll skip to later because from that point on it was just a lot of family photos, cool street photos with the wedding party, and then waiting around. And I was grumpy because my feet were killing and I was super sweaty.

At one point, I think it was 4:30 or something, Brian and I needed some serious alone time. Everyone kept saying “the day is gonna go by so fast!” but it didn’t. We were sitting around all day waiting for everything to start. We just couldn’t wait anymore, and we definitley didn’t want anymore pictures taken. We were just bleh and anxious. Like we just wanted to be married already! So we took some time alone, and went into the bridal room. We sat there until the rabbi came and we had to leave.

In the midst of all this, my bridesmaids and also Marc a groomsman were so amazing. Like helping us out with so much stuff. It was really seriously amazing. Like anything we needed they were on top of it.

So 5 hits or something and then we’re told to go cuz the rabbi is there, and the bedeken is starting. I was so excited. Like not even nervous, because the whole build up of the day was just “omg i can’t wait to finally get married now”.

So we’re sitting in the bedeken and all that happens, and I get veiled and all that. Then we start walking down Eglinton to the room to get married in. They open the door and we hear our song. Brian is like 6 people in front of me, but he turns around and smiles when he hears it, and I heard it too and smiled back. We can’t believe they learned our song that we wanted, and it was so perfect.

Everyone starts walking down the isle now, which I didn’t get to see cuz I was at the back. Then it was my turn. It was so insane seeing every single person I knew there. I saw my friends right away and waved. And then it was my turn to walk down. It was weird, I wasn’t the least bit nervous. That was the part I thought I was be barfing at. But I wasn’t even a tiny bit nervous, I was just really excited and happy. I tried soooooooo hard not to cry. You don’t even understand. If i started crying, I would have lost it. Like seriously lost it. So I just kept trying not to cry, and I tried to take it all in. But thinking back to it, that’s the part I can least remember.

I remember Brian standing at the end of the isle waiting for me, and I remember thinking “OMG this is so amazing, I can’t wait to get there to him!”. So I get there and we walk up the stairs, and I step on my dress, and it looks like I fell. HAHAHHA! Ok, well I didn’t fall! I stepped on my dress, that’s it. The first two rows all gasp! And Brian is like “Are you ok???” i’m like yeah! I didn’t realize it was so awkward, I didn’t think it was a big deal. ANYWAY…

He takes off my veil, and we begin. The rabbi was so amazing, he was making serious eye contact with me and it felt really just amazing. I loved the things he was saying, and the whole time up there I was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo trying not to cry. I cried for like a second, then stopped. Then a second, then stopped. I’m so dumb. LOSER!! Not cuz i Cared about crying, but because I knew the second I started crying I would have just seriously cried hardcore, cuz i’m a loser. Then at one point he’s like “Melissa, do you take Brian…bla bla bla… say yes if you agree”. and I’m like “yes” and I was like so beyond happy and excited saying yes, because it felt so real. Then he pronounces us husband and wife, and I looked at Brian and I was so beyond happy. We broke the glass, kissed, and then didn’t know if it was over. lol. So we looked back to our rabbi, and he told us to go.

NOW WE’RE MARRIED!

So we’re walking back to the Grand after the ceremony, and Mery is screaming ‘HURRY ITS RAINING” but I couldn’t hurry, cuz I was like freaking out we just got married and it was so amazing. And my feet hurt, and my dress was too big and all that. So we walked as fast as we could.

We get to our bridal room for Yichud, which was our alone time in there. There was no food or drinks but they were getting them. Mery closed the door and Yichud started, and I effing lost it, LOST IT!! I cried like for the good 20 minutes. It was so gay. Then Brian started crying. It was intense. I was just like “OMG We’re married I can’t believe it!!!” and then just seriously lost it, and my makeup got all messed up, and then Brian started cyring and we hugged and couldn’t believe it.

Mery came back in and interuppted the ugly crying gay situation going on, and brought us drinks and food, and Brian started eating and I was just trying to recover from the traumatic crying situation going on and trying to fix my make up, and trying to take my shoes off cuz my feet were hurting so bad.

So we’re eating and my shoes are off and make up is fixed, and I’m not kidding I had no feeling in my right foot whatsoever anymore. I didn’t know what to do. I literally had no feeling in it. And i didn’t have a second pair of shoes. So I just put my old ugly running shoes on that I wore there. I didn’t care. Then Mery bustled my dress and we went out for our first dance.

I wish I could have been two places at once at that point. I wish I could have been up on the balcony watching everyone’s reaction. Because that was our thing. We were so excited. No one knew what the room looked like, no one knew those curtains were gonna come down, no one knew we’d be standing there about to do our first dance with the spotlight. So I can only imagine how amazing it was up there. So they introduce us and we dance, and everyone starts clapping when they introduce us. It was so awesome!!!

People started to trickle down and dance and find their seats, and then dinner came, and there was more dancing and speeches. It was so amazing to see all my family and friends there. Like I was trying to take in how amazing the whole night was.

Nothing really happened after that, there was a lot of hanging out with friends and family. Lots of people talking about my dress *YAY!*. It was really nice. We said our speeches and then cut our cake, which was delicious. And then I guess it started to trickle out.

So at around midnight I guess we’re done. And we are trying to get everything ready to go, and finally it’s all ready and we get into our limo on our way to the hotel. We were going to The Hyatt in yorkville. We say bye to our parents and off we go.

We get to the hotel in our wedding clothes, and people are staring. I love it! So we check in and go up to our room, and here’s the best part. I had to pee so bad. like you don’t even know how bad. I didn’t pee all day. I HAVE NEVER NOT PEE’D ALL DAY! You can’t! During hte wedding a few times I really had to pee, but once I got to the washroom, I didn’t have to anymore. It was just to much pressure having like people around holding my dress up. It was too much. So not that I didn’t want to, but I just physically couldnt, and i just didn’t have to go. BUT now no one was around, and I probably hadn’t peed in at least 12 hours, and I drank a lot all day (not alcohol. I so was not getting drunk on my wedding day!). So we are in the room and i’m like “OMG THIS DRESS NEEDS TO COME OFF, I’M ABOUT TO PEE IN IT!”

So i’m trying soooooo hard to get the dress off, but it’s not working. and i’m like “OMG Brian please get it off!!” Literally a second away from peeing. And he can’t get it off. He’s like “i can’t untie it!” and i’m freaking out, what the hell am i gonna do? I was seriously considering just peeing in it. FINALLY it comes off and I dart to the bathroom. best pee ever. I didn’t know it was possible to hold it for 12 hours. hahahha.

In the morning we went down to get breakfast at their restaurant. Bacon and eggs. Mmm. and now we were married!! It was so weird! Then later in the day we went and had high tea at the four seasons, which was a lot of fun, we also walked around UofT for hours, we love it there. Then at night we walked over to Spadina and went to Fresh for dinner. The next day we checked out and went to the airport to get to L.A.

that’s all i’m gonna write for this one. I’ll follow up with a honeymoon blog soon!

But that’s it! That was our wedding!! It was everything we imagined it would be and more. And I think overalll, more than anything, we were so happy to be married. On our honeymoon and everything people kept calling us husband and wife, and it was so nice. We’re so happy to be married. and we were saying how it probably won’t feel any different. And it didn’t. Like the whole honeymoon just felt like regular Brian and Melissa. But then when we got home yesterday, and were just sitting in our house, married… it absolutley felt different. Both of us felt it, we were talking about it. Like wow we’re married, this is it. It’s crazy. It’s just insane, I can’t even explain it. but we’re both so beyond happy to be married, we love it!!!! And we love our friends and families so much for coming to the wedding, and all the help and planning and everything they did for us since we got engaged.

And now i’m going to start uploading all our photos so I can turn this into a photo blog post, because it’s too long, and pictures are better. So HOPEFULLY it’ll be updated again shortly, so check back.

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Coming home today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our bus gets us at 1, our flight at 6, then our flight home at 10!!!!!!!

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Today is our last full day in Cabo. We spent the majority of our day in our room. We’ve had too much sun and it was really hot out today so we just stayed in the room.

Were kinda bored and just sitting here waiting for dinner, then we’ll pack and have our last Cabo sleep.

Tomorrow our bus picks us up at one and our flight is at 6 so we’ll be at the airport all day. Our flight lands in la at I think eight, then our flight leaves at 10.

It’s been a really nice vacation, but it’s gonna be really awesome to be home again and see everyone.

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