Congratulations, Mitch and Lynn Bassett –
you’re married!
Congratulations Doug and Alicia – you’re
engaged!
Mitch and Lynn’s wedding is the news of the
day, but I didn’t find out about the news of the day from yesterday until this
morning; and Doug proposed to Alicia so that they were engaged in time for Lynn’s
wedding. Most of the guys around here –
including Michael and Tim – think that Doug is brilliant; since he now has a
very easy way to remember his engagement date.
I know that isn’t really any different than choosing a holiday or
birthday for that, but let’s not have that get in the way of the jokes; and I’ll
give Doug full points for surprising Alicia and making her so happy.
While the Bassett side of Michael’s family
was busy with the wedding all day; he and I were busy with the work to help out
with that – including the breakfast at the Inn that Jacob and Miranda hosted
for the family and all of the wedding guests that are visiting town for the
weekend. The weather and forecast wasn’t
looking good first thing this morning, but Mother Nature decided to mess with
the meteorologists and give Mitch and Lynn enough nice weather when they needed
it most to give them a perfect day for the most-important parts of their
wedding ceremony and reception.
I didn’t get to enjoy much of the nice
weather, but then I missed out on the rain and thunderstorms too while I was
indoors and working. With the family
breakfast; that part of my work shift was a bit crazy, and then I didn’t end up
going home because Miranda needed help with the rooms because the Inn is full
with wedding guests. I ended up doing
that; helping with the lunch prep work; and then I headed home to have lunch
and get ready for the wedding. Michael
and I weren’t in the wedding party for his cousin or helping out at the church;
but we did provide the music for the ceremony – including a duet while the
wedding party was busy signing the paperwork once we had them happily
married. That was a lot of fun, and we’re
really happy for Mitch and Lynn; so all of the work that we did for the rest of
the day was worth it.
After we were done at the church, it was
time to get back to the Inn and help out with getting ready for both the
reception in the main dining room and the regular dinner shift that we only had
the small dining rooms for our regular customers. That wasn’t really a problem for space, since
most of the reception guests were locals anyway, but we still managed to keep
the small dining rooms full too. Michael
and I did need to take a break to go to the park for wedding photos, but that
was set up so that Michael’s family could go all at once; get the pictures with
Mitch and Lynn done in just a few minutes; and then get back to the Inn.
That reminds me that there is a bit of news
that I should add here – that Jake and Stephanie were in the wedding party; and
had to juggle their responsibilities for that with working to help with the
reception too. Jake also provided the
special dinners that Mitch and Lynn chose – as did most of the wedding party
and parents and grandparents of the bride and groom. All of that made for a crazy-busy day for
Jake and Stephanie – and that’s also why Michael and I were put in charge of
the post-reception clean-up even though our day started before dawn with the
breakfast shift.
We were able to have a couple of breaks
tonight, but not during the reception meal, toasts or really any of the
reception highlights because we were both busiest while those special moments
were going on. I didn’t miss everything,
since I was in and out of the dining room all evening; but Michael was too-busy
in the kitchen to do more than spend a couple of minutes with Mitch and Lynn
during one of our breaks. The happy
newlyweds left for their airport hotel at midnight; the reception wrapped up at
one; and Michael and I got done work by two-thirty – including getting the
library set up for the self-serve breakfast that some of our guests will be
having in the morning – if they don’t just sleep in until lunchtime!
Speaking of that, Michael and I will be
working tomorrow too – including a lunch for the Bassett and Jennings families
and quite a few of their friends; so I need to wrap this up and get some
sleep. I’ll be doing that with Michael;
and he was happy to let me bring him home with me once we got out of the
Inn. I’ve been doing my basic bedtime
computer checks and this update while getting ready for bed; but didn’t do much
more than read my email and answer a couple of them that I didn’t want to leave
until tomorrow night. I doubt there will
be any quality make-out time for Michael and me tonight, but we really just
want to cuddle and sleep anyway.
I really want to get to that end to my
night too; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
