Volumes of Love: Poof! You’re Jewish!

We returned to the hotel and changed into some regular clothes before tackling the monster in front of us:  decorating the ballroom.  Sunday River had asked what time I would need the ballroom the night before the wedding, and they had it ready and waiting for us.

Although I knew exactly what needed to go where, it was difficult setting up because I was the only one who knew.  I wanted to be in charge of a few things and let others help me out, but with ten people asking questions every thirty seconds, I wasn’t able to focus much.  Finally, the teacher side of me kicked in and I made large announcements of what needed to be done and how many people needed to do it.  It seemed to work out okay until all of the little jobs I could explain were done.  And then MIL Library showed up forty-five minutes late to help and kept bugging me to “give her a job.”  Sorry, MIL Library, if you wanted quick answers, you should have shown up on time.Chaos, thy name is wedding.

I asked everyone to help set up the tables after I showed them what I wanted them to look like.  Bridesmaid Al and Miss Sox were super helpful at this because they are as anal about placement as I am, and I knew they would be all over quality control.  As I went to set up the kids’ table, I heard Rachel and Best Man K talking really loudly about something to do with the centerpieces.  Groomsman D joined in, but when I went over to see what needed to be done, they wouldn’t tell me what was up.  It turns out that the white candles MIL Library had gotten a really good deal on for the centerpieces were Jewish funeral candles!  The Hebrew on the top was a prayer for the dead!  At first I was a little annoyed, but then I just burst out laughing!  Our wedding was going to be a Jewish wedding after all, and we had the candles to prove it!  I furthered learned that it was bad luck to burn out the candles, so they used all of the regular white ones Mom Library and I had purchased instead.  Let’s not have anything to do with bad luck on our wedding day!

From then on, the candles became our running joke.  We began using Yiddish slang for different things, and essentially, our wedding became an honorary Jewish wedding.  I loved it!

Once the tables were set, the last big project I could give the masses of helpers was the job of poofing.  Remember all of the tissue paper flowers I made on New Year’s Day?  They needed to be fluffed out of their folded states.  When I handed over the box of 97 and showed everyone how to do one, they all looked at me like my eighth graders did when I told them to write a research paper.  You could have heard a mouse squeak (probably in protest, too).  No one had any idea how to do it, even with the tutorial.  They were all proclaimed non-crafters for this mission.  So who came to the rescue?  Our flower girl E!  Not only had she done these in school the year before, but she had also made them at home with her family!  She became our poofing savior and did quality control on everyone’s napkin rings.  What would we have done without her?

As the 97 napkin rings were poofed, I put up the family photo tree on the wall.  I really should have had a level or something, but that’s all in hindsight.  I just wanted to be done.  We put up the 3M hooks, waited an hour for them to set, and stuck the photo frames up.  Despite being crooked, I thought they looked pretty good.  BIL Library even brought his girlfriend E over to say how cool it was to see his relatives.  With our photo strings situated, the tables set up, and the last finishing touches being done in the morning, we called it a night.  It was time to go our separate ways (but only for about an hour) and hang out with our groups.

Walk me through this:

Our bridal party began to come together!

We did as UPS does!

We’re cat-walking baby!

We practiced eating!

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