Sunday, August 03, 2003

 

8/2/03

So, today was the big whole wedding. It still hasn't hit me yet that my eldest brother is now a married man or that Rina is now officially my sister-in-law. Strange, it felt like they've been married all along though. They've been together ever since I can remember.
So, here I was, Jr. Groomsman. I thought I had something really, really important to do but it turns out I juss had to stand there and lead the other groomsman, all while looking good, haha. Hey, I don't look half bad in a tux.
I will never forget that single moment when they stood up there on the alter, hand in hand, looking deeply into eachother's eyes, saying their vows. How they're going to commit to eachother for the rest of lives. It was a beautiful thing.
Don't worry, my friends, I still have a scrotum.

The reception was hella down. Free grub, free love...that's all you can ask for. I had fun walking around, mingling, joking around and conversing with everyone beforehand and with relatives, family friends and cousins at their tables.
Ick sang a moving rendition of Now and Forever. The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire game was a nice touch. Haha, I had to burn half those CDs as well as make the covers and CD design labels. Also, the centerpiece game was fun and funny, haha. First we had to keep passing around a dollar, and then whoever had it had to take their napkin and run around the table. No one wanted to run around, so I ran around the table both times, haha. Dean ended up winning the center-piece and my dope lil nephew Jason took off with his dollar, haha.
Bert, the best man and Janine, the maid of honor made heart-felt and funny toasts.
Then there was the money dance. A lot of confusion there, haha. Everybody told me a different thing to do so I was lost for about the first 5 minutes, walking around, handing out pins and then Bert comes and up tells me to juss regulate a line, which I was going to do originally. And then when I'm doing that, Jason keeps asking to help out, so I give him the pins, haha. To top that off, everybody kept coming up to me every 25 secs to tell me to go faster, the only problem was I was already couting 5 and going but everyone kept saying, "No, count to 10!" or even a minute. Don't worry, everyone. I had it down. I knew what I was doing.
Finally, open dance, the moment all my counsins and everyone I talked to was waiting for, haha. However, they were playing a bunch of salsa and old dance music, so only the adults were on the floor. I was juss gliding around taking pictures, haha. Finally, after about a half-hour, they start playing some hip-hop. Haha, that's when all the parents docked-off the dance floor and no one was dancing so Reggie make me go out there and bust out to hopefully break the ice. I did a lil popping and I guess it worked out because everyone started coming down. Success!
We all were grooving and then they started a circle and different people started going in and busting out and then out of nowhere my aunt comes in and she starts busting out! It was the craziest thing I saw that whole night!
They ended the night by playing K-Ci and Jojo's "All My Life" and I was coming back in. I was going to ask Daisy(sp?) if she wanted to dance 'cause she looked left out and lonely but Mia jumped at me and asked me first, haha.
I've never seen my mom so happy. During the Mother/Son dance she was crying happily like no other. Cutest thing, that it was.
After that, it was a lot of goodbyes and a lot of loading 'cause we had to trill all the stiffizzle on over to our house, haha.
And that, my friends, was 8/02/03....the day Elbert and Rina were married.

I'll talk about Vegas later. There's a lot of thinking to do right now.

Docking out...
-Ryan : as Ryan as not letting people in on your lil talents and then busting them out of nowhere because you're suddenly bored and comfortable

Ryan posted this at 2:01 PM.