Day 2: Key West and our ceremony
The best advice I can give is to give yourself lots of time to get ready in the morning as well as eat breakfast. We booked a bike riding excursion for the morning and planned on being up early enough to eat breakfast; however, I had overestimated the water pressure and ended up taking a long shower trying to wash my hair. Needless to say the fruit basket in our room became a lifesaver and our breakfast.
My one complaint about excursions is if you are not physically able or appropriately dressed you should not be allowed to participate. We set out on our bike ride which was nice & informative, unfortunately it did rain. They handed out ponchos but only after we already looked like drowned rats. My father in law lost his glasses when removing his poncho and by the time we found them a car had run over them. Between the thunderstorm and and a few stragglers we only completed half of the tour in the allotted time; however, I still enjoyed our ride. I hadn't been on a bicycle in over 15 years.
We got back on the ship and Andrea was in our hallway, she said she had just dropped off my flowers. In my room I found a beautiful bouquet, unfortunately it was not the garden bouquet that I had requested. I called Emily and left a message about the flowers, then we headed to the buffet for lunch. Even the buffet was delicious. All you can eat dessert stations are dangerous.
After lunch I headed to the room for a quick shower then off to my hair appointment. My stylist was very friendly and did a fantastic job on my hair. I really enjoyed visiting with him about the different ships. He's previously been on the Dream and after this stint on the Wonder he'll be on the Magic. He asked me to stop back by once I was all dressed but due to a few crazy events I never made it back to the salon.
When I returned to the stateroom Terin headed to his parents room to get ready while his mother helped me. Emily came by the room with flowers that they found on Key West and she quickly reworked my bouquet. Luckily I had taken silk rose petals so they spread those on the cake table for me.
When I put on my dress we realized that when they pressed it some of the pleats on the left side had come out. Thankfully I had packed a sewing kit. Terin's mom pinned my dress and my friend Donna sewed it. My grandmother had given me her pearls to wear at my wedding. To create even more craziness the clasp was messed up, but my friend Jill was able to manipulate it.
Our ceremony was scheduled to start at 4 and it was now 3:55! In a panic none of us could think of how to get to Outlook Café without going across deck 9. Lots of people clapped and took pictures as we tried to make our way past the pool. As soon as we arrived Emily was at the door and ushered the girls in and brought my dad out. My dad got teary eyed, which I haven never seen him do before.
The ceremony was sweet and about 1min long.
And we are now officially married!
We tried to learn how to waltz by watching YouTube videos at home but we didn't think about my dress having a train. So prom dancing it was.
