Wedding Day

The wedding of my two co-workers took place at the Fairmont Hotel on the beach. Luckily we rented a GPS. I didn't realize how far it was from the main strip. 25 miles of a two way highway. The guests were suppose to arrive by 3:30pm and the wedding to start at 4pm. I was getting a little worried we would not make it. We got there at 3:45 and then had to go through the hotel and out the back to a long walkway where the ceremony and reception was going to be held. After all that, the wedding actually didn't start til after 5! There was a little drama with the bridal party. The make-up artist showed up at 9am, but her helper didn't. It literally took til 5pm before she was able to finish everyone. Other than that, everything was great. It was an emotional wedding. The groom cried his "I dooooooooo!" (which me and another co-worker will be giving him grief at work... "Michelle, do you have any paper over there?" "yes, I doooooooo!") It was so cute! The bride also had a hanky to wipe his face. The food was excellent and too much! There was too much food! Frois Grai (sp?), Goat cheese wonton, bacon-wrapped scallops, Kobe beef were the appetizers. Then they had lomi lomi salmon, Poke, Kalua Pig, fried rice, Potatoes, etc, etc. You could not put everything on your plate. You had to pick and choose carefully. Then for dessert, they had chocolate fondues, cheesecakes, etc. UGH...we were so stuff. SO STUFFED it was not funny. And, nobody cleaned their plates! Well, more later, my time is running out. Tomorrow is our last day in Paradise.