CRAZY wedding - MORE PICS!!!

[Samantha Puppy]

Yesterday, my older brother got married. It was already shaping up to be anything but traditional, but what happened at the reception just took the cake. Two bits of background info. - my brother and father are HUGE, MASSIVE Baltimore Ravens fans and also, one of my brother's friend's wives is heavy into cheerleading. She knows some girls on the Ravens cheerleading squad. Through them, she was able to arrange to have Poe (one of the mascots) to come to the reception. My brother was absolutely SHOCKED. I wish I had been standing on the other side of my brother to get his reaction with my camera! Anyway, everyone on our side (my family's side) of the room was up and getting pictures taken with Poe, dancing with him, etc. while everyone on the bride's side sat like bumps on a log because they're all losers.

Anyway, thought I'd share some pictures.

My brother's initial reaction from behind...


Robb and Shannon and Poe


Poe cuttin' it solo


Poe and Shan


Shan, Poe and Robb


Me, Poe and Josh


Mom, Poe and Dad


That's all for now. If anyone I know sends me any good ceremony shots, I'll post those. Just thought I'd share the next biggest happening (after the actual ceremony, of course).

[moosmom]

How cool was that!!! I can only imagine the look on your brother's face. Looks like you all had a great time. You look FANTASTIC!! Must be that glow.

[RobiLee]

Now that looks like fun! What a great surpise. You look beautiful and definitely have a GLOW

[Cataholic]

That is hilarious! Maybe the bride's side was afraid of Poe?

[Samantha Puppy]

That is hilarious! Maybe the bride's side was afraid of Poe?

LOL But considering they stayed in their seats after he left, I doubt it. It was actually funny to look at the difference in the two sides of the room after awhile... it was like night and day! Our side = fun, dancing, drinking, smiles. Her side = people sitting at their tables, staring at the tables, looking like they'd rather be anywhere else. Real nice people.

[Laura's Babies]

That had to be SO much FUN!! What a HOOT that had to have been!!!

[ramanth]

How fun!! Very cool of their friend to do that.

LOL But considering they stayed in their seats after he left, I doubt it. It was actually funny to look at the difference in the two sides of the room after awhile... it was like night and day! Our side = fun, dancing, drinking, smiles. Her side = people sitting at their tables, staring at the tables, looking like they'd rather be anywhere else. Real nice people.

Sounds like my sisters wedding. Many of the guests on Nick's side didn't come and those that did, left right after dinner.

[Samantha Puppy]

Got some more pictures e-mailed to me from my mom and I thought I'd share them with you all.

Here is the head table with Moose (best man), Robb, Shannon and Beast Jr.


My mommy and daddy


Palin and me (with Beast Sr. behind me in the lavendar dress)


Another of me and Palin, with his mom (my dress is long because my shoes were off)


Robb and me dancing to our song ("Build Me Up, Buttercup")




Robb and Moose serenading everyone to "Mack the Knife"

[Kfamr]

That looks like such a fun time! Such a blast, I bet.

You look wonderful as does the rest of your family... It's great to see you again.

[Jadapit]

Omg, that looks like it was a blast!! You have such a beautiful family. You mom is a beautiful lady. You are glowing, you look so happy.

[ramanth]

Beast Sr. and Jr.!? Love to hear that story.

[Samantha Puppy]

Beast Sr. and Jr.!? Love to hear that story.

Beast Sr. is Shannon's mother, Lynn. Beast Jr. is her (half) sister, Danielle. Both of them are attention-seeking, power-hungry b!tches and I hate them both - and if you know me, you'd know that I don't hate many people.

It all began about a month after Robb started dating Shannon. Beast Sr. told him in confidence that she had stomach cancer but that she didn't want her husband, Danielle or Shannon to know. He bent over backwards doing nice things for her, all the while begging her to see a doctor. She refused. Now two years later, she still hasn't seen a doctor and seems to have forgotten all about her "ailment". She doesn't have cancer. She was lying for attention and sympathy.

Then came when Robb proposed to Shannon (June 2004, three weeks after my wedding). I was the first girl she asked to be in the wedding. Shannon and I sat down with Robb and I presented them all sorts of ideas to make their wedding absolutely gorgeous. I actually was getting jealous that *I* hadn't waited until Autumn to have my wedding! Almost six months later, and I hadn't heard from any other bridesmaid - so I asked Shannon for everyone's e-mail so we could get to know each other and sent out a friendly note to everyone introducing myself. This did not sit well with Beast Jr. SHE was the matron of honor, SHE felt I was overstepping my boundaries as just a "regular" bridesmaid... but out of the goodness of her heart, let it go (<-- can you hear the sarcasm just dripping?). Then came February. I told Shannon that we should get the dress ordering together and that I'd be happy to head it up since she had said we could get it from the place MY girls got their dress ($116.65 - including S&H, as opposed to upwards of $280 in a bridal boutique). I sent out an e-mail saying that I'd spoken to Shannon and she wanted us to get our dresses ordered so since I'd just gone through this not even a year prior, I was volunteering to get everything together if the rest of the girls could just me their measurements within the month. Well.

Beast Jr. went ballistic. She backed out of the wedding saying that I had no right to be involved (right, 'cause it's not my BROTHER getting married) and that she'd only rejoin the wedding party if I promised not to do ANYTHING MORE other than just show up on the day of the wedding. So Shannon and Robb sat me down, told me that I was to do nothing, offer no help, etc. so that Beast Jr. would rejoin the party. My brother was livid - he and I get along very well, we're best friends. I had every right to be involved in MY BROTHER'S WEDDING (especially since this wedding was more for him than Shannon - unheard of, isn't it?). Shannon only asked Beast Jr. to be the matron of honor to avoid World War III. They don't get along well, never had much of a relationship, and are as different as night and day. And here she was saying that I could not participate in any way, shape or form, in my brother's wedding? Screw her.

So anyway, I backed off and went waaaaaaaay overboard in making sure I wasn't involved in anything. I refused to respond to her e-mails. I didn't participate in the "girl's day" she tried to put together to get all the bridesmaids to go get measured together and told Shannon that I would not pay $300 for a dress when I know I could get it for less than $120. I went to the bridal shower (that was held in A BAR), but only for about 2 hours before I had to leave because I couldn't stop hacking my lungs out because of all the smoke. I didn't go to the bachelorette weekend (that Beast Jr. planned without asking ANYONE if that weekend worked for them, that she only gave us less than a month's notice for an entire weekend away, AND that she expected us to just pony up whatever money was necessary even though she never asked us what worked for our budget/plans). I basically just showed up on Saturday, like she wanted. I was pushed aside all day by her. And did you know? In weddings, the groom becomes part of the bride's family but the bride doesn't become part of the groom's. She kept talking about how great it would be to have Robb as a brother and how they couldn't wait for HIM to be part of THEIR family, etc. She tried to stand up next to my brother for EVERY PICTURE until I pointedly told her to move her fat @$$ because *I* was standing next to MY brother.

Her toast was horrible. You're supposed to toast the couple. All she did was talk about how much it meant to her that "Shan" asked her to be the matron of honor and how blessed she was to have her for a sister (*gag*). The only time she mentioned my brother was at the end, when she told everyone to raise their glasses to Shannon and Robb.

All this on top of the fact that she could win Worst Wife of the Year award. Her husband has been in poor health for awhile. He had a stroke years ago (he's only in his 30s now) and cannot see well, cannot hear well unless you yell, was bedridden for quite awhile until he was able to move up to a wheelchair. In September, some levels of different things in his body went wacko and he was in the hospital for awhile. He got out the week before the wedding. On Friday afternoon, he had dialysis and while there, had a heart attack that put him in the ICU. He'd never had a heart attack before so it's not like it was "old hat". But apparently, according to Beast Jr.'s chatter in the limo, she was home Friday night in time to watch The Ghost Whisperer in her pajamas (I think it comes on at 8pm). As for Saturday... she spent the morning at the hairdresser's... then she went up to the wedding in the limo with the rest of us... did she leave after the ceremony to go be with her husband? Hell no! She was out on the dance floor, dancing her heart out and was one of the last ones to leave. NOW. Had that been me, if my husband was not at death's door, I would've gone to the wedding but left immediately after. (But if the doctor said that he could pass at any time, I'd be at the hospital and my brother would have to understand.) So. There you go. Pick a reason to hate her, 'cause I use them all.

Sorry for the length of the post... but you asked!

[ramanth]

Wow. I hope her hubby is doing okay now and I hope your brother and new SIL had a good time despite all that.

Sounds like my friend, Rachel's, wedding planning. She asked our friend Cheri, and another girl we know to be Bridesmaids. According to Cheri, the wedding is becoming expensive and extravagant to the point she called and told Rachel she can't be apart of it. The other bridesmaid was making all the expensive suggestions and taking over the whole thing. Sad.

[Samantha Puppy]

Wow. I hope her hubby is doing okay now and I hope your brother and new SIL had a good time despite all that.

Her husband's still in the ICU. My family probably won't hear much about him this week being as Robb and Shannon are away for their honeymoon at the moment.

So now that you know some of the story - isn't the name "Beast" too kind? I'm just happy I'll hardly ever have to see her... until Robb and Shannon have a kid, and then I'm sure she'll do everything in her power to be the "better aunt".

[lvpets2002]

Oh it looks like all had so much fun & wish I could have joined.. Bet it was all a blast & great pictures..