Rachel Melvin Instagram – PT 2
I made my Grandmother’s gnocchi and bolognese recipes – from scratch, then transported it all to a different location’s freezer when our electric company had a scheduled outage in our area, two days before the wedding. We sorted through and compiled 17 hours of music for the ceremony, cocktail hour, dinner, and reception. We went through over 20,000 photos to put together a slideshow of us with each of our guests. We even went to Costco – my least favorite place in the world – to get everything we needed for our signature cocktails, crostini bar, and flavored water. We enlisted the help of our families to lay down aisle runners, dry out then crush up flower petals to throw at our recession, polish silverware, and run last minute errands… all of this in addition to the enormous expense of hiring the people we did for rentals, photography, florals, DJ’ing, serving, and cooking.
Everyone thought we were crazy and taking on too much, but we knew we could do it and ultimately we did. We’d gotten everything accomplished, had all the meetings with all the people to have everything orchestrated to run smoothly in the way we wanted… everything was covered.
We couldn’t wait to finally relax, take in the fruits of our labor, and start the next chapter by celebrating with our closest friends and family. But the next day, down to the minute we were supposed to walk down the aisle, a flash flood took the desert by literal storm. Fifteen minutes of a torrential, unprecedented, and unseasonable downpour, forced 100 people into our modest home and us to abandon everything we’d planned and worked so hard for. There would be little bridal party photos, no grand entrance, no dinner service under the stars, no speeches, no cake cutting, little dancing. Every single moment that makes a wedding a wedding was stolen from us by the weather.
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