The Wedding: BFF Edition

I forgot to update on this as well.

As you may remember, D wasn't sending money and BFF was cancelling the wedding. The thought crossed her mind many times to just forget the entire thing - what, with the flooding all over the place. She wasn't going to have anything done and kind of just accepted her defeat, so to speak.

Another bridesmaid, C, decided (with her husband, J) to gift BFF and her hubs a hall for $200. If D came through with this new amount of money ($300), C wasn't expecting anything back and BFF was allowed to use it elsewhere.

Well, surprised as we were, D came through with the $300! So, BFF [I'm just calling her F from now on, lol] spent the extra $100 on the bar with the hall, some on a DJ (who's engaged to another bridesmaid), and the rest on outfits and stuff like that. I let her borrow mine and fiance's wedding decorations on the condition she didn't dispose of them or give them away as favors, and bought some tablecloths and candles and miscellaneous decorations she needed.

The most fantastic gesture in all this (I think, anyway) was the seamstress who was altering F's dress; she felt so bad for F (F told her all about the D fiasco) that she altered the dress for free, gave F free shoes and 1/2 off her jewelry and veil! I mean, that's incredible and I know F appreciated it so much!

And as "tacky" as it may sound to have a wedding at a hall with a potluck style reception, it was beautiful and so much fun! F looked gorgeous, her hubs looked great, too, her bridesmaids all looked fantastic and the groomsmen had these funny tux-tee shirts. But it all looked awesome, and with a DJ - it was so fun! My mom took all the bridal pictures and we gave F the SD card as part of her wedding gift so she has ALL THE PICTURES to choose from! :)

Now I'm a lot less worried how our wedding/reception is going to go down. We're having food potluck style and the same basic decorations, but no DJ and a pro photographer. I'm kind of thinking that maybe, if we can convince him to do it for us, too, that F's DJ would be good and I think she said he was $100. If we can scrounge up that somewhere, that would be so great and less to worry about. Although, my laptop, iTunes playlist and someone manning the mic for announcements would probably go off well, too.