Aha!

Yesterday we found the elusive, missing blue napkins! After washing all 75 napkins the caterer returned (I know, this means we were 33 napkins short - not four or even five) I went on a napkin finding bender. It turns out the caterer called my husband, and told him they were short 33, and he said to just go ahead and use whatever they had, like the white napkins. He never called me because, of course, I was picking up my sister at the B&B and getting her to the hospital to arrange for my brother's discharge. I had left all the last minute minutiae to him, like the dog's swollen snout and such. Before I left, we had packed everything for the final hand-off to the wedding planner in the front hall - the programs, the twine, the orchids, the 3 tiered plates my hubby made, the boy and girl maple sugar candies, some embroidery hoop decorations I forgot to tell you about....and the napkins. I asked my husband a few times if he brought them up from the basement. He said "Yes Honey," and he did. It's just that I forgot that I had left a brown paper bag of napkins in the broom/vacuum closet. Yep, in my sleep-deprived-addled brain I just forgot about those. It's like when you're nursing your newborn, and you wake up and wonder if you left her on the changing table...that's what planning a wedding is like. Prepare to lose things!

The wedding pictures are coming, the wedding pictures are coming! Now first let me say, proudly, I am on Facebook. It took three prompts for me to join over a year ago: first, a newly divorced book club friend told me I should and sent me the invite; then my daughter the bride said I'd love it; and finally, my sister-in-law was already on Facebook. The beautiful woman from Holly Springs, Mississippi who bravely drove me to the ceremony - the wrong way - with her daughter and grandbaby. If she was on it, and I adore her, I too could play this solipsistic game! A very good friend from NJ said she's "...not allowed to creep on Facebook." It's not her kids who were opposed, it was the hubby. Now, even she is on The Facebook! The other day my MIL, who calls it "Facelift," said to me, "Where does your blog go?" And I realized, at some point technology will spin beyond me, but for now, I'd better keep trying to keep up! So wedding candids via friends on Facebook have been trickling in. The archivist of our Big Chill group even sent us a great CD of his photos! He memorialized Woodstock, and the reunion, and many of our Thanksgiving dinners.

And now our wonderful wedding photographer, Jack Looney (you can check out his blog here), has finished jpeging, uploading, choosing the black and white and printing and all the rest of the things photographers do to create a final product. He had a one week beach vacation right after the wedding so it's taken a bit longer, but I can't complain. I loved working with him, he is becoming a best buddy. He was the exact right match for the Couple. My daughter was instantly at ease and reassured by his very presence. His assistant is in a band, so I can't wait to see the shots of the Bourbon Family and my son with instruments. I'm waiting in the same way I waited for the envelope from the colleges my children had their hearts set on. He will mail the CD and some prints out to the newlyweds tomorrow and we'll meet him at the end of the week too, over coffee, then we can spend the weekend with the married couple phone-oogling over them together. Don't worry, I'll post the best right here too. On this Wedding Wilderness spot I can't seem to give up, just yet. Well, I knew you'd want to know what happened to the napkins.

And next week, it's Vegas Baby!