Ceremony Continued
Okay, so we walk down the aisle. And Rev Miller holds up his hand to tell us to stop. (It's a good thing he did that because I wasn't really paying attention and we could have had an incident.)
Rev Miller starts the ceremony (I have no idea what he said and I don't have a copy of the ceremony at work so I can't check it now...) He said something. Then it was time to present me to Chris. It went something like this:
Rev Miller: Who presents this woman (insert long space here) to
Dad: Her mother and I do.
Everyone laughs
Rev Miller: Let's try this again
Dad: Okay, you tell me when to talk
Rev Miller: Who presents this woman (insert long space here) to
Dad: Her mother and I do
Everyone laughs
Rev Miller: Okay! One more time! Who presents this woman (insert long space here) to this wonderful man Chris
Dad: Her mother and I do.
This was great and amusing and really started our ceremony off on the right foot. Neither of us wanted our ceremony to be too stuffy or serious. We're funny. We don't know how to behave. This back and forth just worked well.
Then Rev Miller told Dad to take as much time as he needed to present me to Chris. My response to my father was "let's not get too emotional here." Dad laughed, gave me a hug, and handed me to Chris and then Rev Miller told him to go sit down. I turned to him and said "Don't step on my dress." Which was a joke because the whole time Caryn walked down the aisle she was yelling "DAD! You're stepping on my dress!".
So Chris took my hand and we walked up the steps. Rev Miller told us to face each other and told us to hold hands for as long as we wanted.
We're up here and we're really trying to behave. However, there was a bug flying all around us. In my ears, on Chris's glasses, everywhere. We were both trying to be incognito and get rid of it... I dont think that worked. Several guests told me how funny they thought it was that I was picking the lint off of Chris's jacket and asked what we were doing with our hands. Yeah. The bug.... That was another thing that was just "whatever, it's a bug".
Rev Miller starts talking again... something about our future happieness when I hear a ruckus behind me. Now, I can't turn around to see what trouble my bridesmaids are getting into, that wouldn't be very bridelike. Between my parents, Chris and Caryn I think I have figured out what went on.
When Rev Miller said something about our future happiness apparently all of the bridesmaids started to cry.
I guess Caryn wasn't too pleased about the crying thing because she then asked Megan and Mary to blow in her eyes. (Weirdo)
They laughed at her.
Then it was time for us to say our vows. (When Rev Miller sent us our ceremony a few days before the wedding the vows weren't your standard vows, so I asked him to change them) We both said our vows loud and clear
Then it was time for the rings. Dave gives Rev Miller the rings and he remarked at how cool they were (they are pretty cool) and then asked who picked them out. To which Chris replied "I did." Everyone got a big kick out of that too.
This is Chris taking my ring
Now it was time to give each other our rings. During my ring vows (I give you this ring, blah blah blah) I started to think about what my Dad said about my grandfather and got a little choked up. I decided mid way thru those vows that I was not going to cry and needed to think about something else.
After we were done with our rings Rev Miller said some other stuff and then told us to kiss, which we did, but I don't have a picture of it yet. (Can't wait for Randy pics) Then Rev Miller said "I know pronounce you Chris and Lindsay, husband and wife as of" and he looked at Dave who looked at his watch and said "7:59 PM!!" The Ever Ever After song from Enchanted started to play and we were done!
As we were walking down the aisle I asked my aunt who was on the phone who she was on the phone with. She told me she was on the phone with my other aunt, so I said (loud enough for her to hear me) "HI AUNT JEANNE!" (Aunt Jeanne couldn't attend the wedding so I thought it was REALLY cool that she got to hear the ceremony... the picture above is right after I said hi)
We walked out and were quickly whisked away to picture point where took a few quick pictures. We took some pictures at picture point and then some pictures in the WP. I was really happy that we did all of our bridal party pictures beforehand. In the meantime, everyone else was lining up for our staged exit.
Again, no Randy pics lead to no real pictures of our staged exit but we had pink rose petals and it was lots of fun
Everyone got on the busses to go to cocktail hour and Diane bustled my dress. Caryn saved us the two front seats on the bus and we got on. I switched from my pretty shoes to my ballet flats and Caryn took my veil out. Caryn had made a DVD of pictures to play on the bus. Unfortunately, it wouldn't play. It plays in every DVD player we've tried EXCEPT for the one on the bus. That was kind of annoying, but not a big deal. We were supposed to give the DVD to Diane a month in advance and Caryn gave it to her at the rehearsal so there wasn't time to test it on a bus... The bus ride was fun and I think everyone got a kick out of being backstage at Epcot. The security lady who checked our bus was a little bit rude and said something to one of our guests about bringing in a wrapped gift. But that was it... (you'd think that it was the first time someone tried to bring a wrapped gift to a wedding)
The bus
Anyway, we parked right behind AAR and we were escorted into Epcot by our very own light saber ladies. HOW COOL!! Randy was there to take pictures of us walking in all of the guests in the park shouted congratulations. It was very cool. We were the first ones in (I think) and we had just enough time to say hello to a few people and have two quick bites of Mickey Roni and Cheese (which was phenomenal! and apparently everyone had some) before Randy brought us onto the bridge for pictures.
Everyone walking in to cocktail hour
We stood on the bridge for Illuminations and followed the tried and true method of: look at each other, look at the fireworks, kiss, look at the camera, repeat.
As soon as fireworks were over we rushed to get one of our special guests and quickly disapeared into AAR.
Coming up next: We rock the reception
That sucks about the DVD, but that is a great idea. Did your guests get to see it some other time? I can't wait to see the shots from the AAR!
so I didn't even bother to mention that to Diane. (I think Caryn did...) 
