I posted this on our wedding website and it is a wonderful reminder of what happened on our wedding day in 2013.
We did get our marriage license. Go online and do the research people - we cut in front of everyone because we were prepared! There really is a taxi stand outside the marriage license bureau in Clark County.
We checked into the Bellagio - funny story - we went to the normal guest check-in and they had no reservation for us. No kidding. I presented the lady with my paperwork and she said "Well you belong in VIP Services!" It was like the Fairy Godmother had waved her magic wand. Our porter took us over to this nondescript doorway and held it open for us. It was another world in there! Free drinks, snacks, a tuxedo-clad server to wait on you, gorgeous ladies to greet us at the counter. It really was wonderful to be treated like a king and a queen!
Our suite was going to be prepared in an hour so we went to lunch at Mon Ami Gabi at the Paris hotel. It was amazing, seriously. Our server was delightful and the food was out of this world! We went back to our suite afterwards, stopped to play some slots because we had money to lose, ha ha, and kicked back for a while until our massage.
Our dinner that night was at the Picasso restaurant in the Bellagio. We were seated at the exact table you see Julia Roberts and George Clooney at in Ocean's Eleven. Our server presented us with a chilled bottle of glorious champagne and let us know we had to "drink it all". It was a gift from our friends who were mysteriously seated at a table behind us and loving the fact that we had no clue they were there! Dinner was amazing and when I say amazing, I mean, I have never had food melt in my mouth before this night. Surreal. The view was La Tour Eiffel, the show was the Bellagio fountains, the champagne was perfect, and there was so much love in that restaurant from our friends, from the staff graciously meeting our every need the night before our wedding, and from one another. It was an unforgettable experience surrounded by 10 million dollars in priceless art work - did I even mention the art work?
We met our beloved friends and another couple after dinner for drinks in the VIP services area. Sharing our laughter and stories with two other couples who have loved us and our relationship from its beginning was so amazing! We were blessed to have 20 friends and family who made the trip out to Las Vegas.
The next day was filled with the busyness of preparation. My friend, Stephanie, was there helping curl my hair and soothe my nerves. There was a bathtub filled with ice for all the beer and sodas in preparation for the reception afterwards. It seemed to be the best place since we had two huge bathrooms in our suite. My friend, Sherry showed up and helped to get me into my dress with Stef. Make-up, Patrick was walking around in a kilt, what else could a girl ask for?!
When we walked downstairs it was definitely a Pretty Woman moment of walking through a hotel lobby in a gorgeous gown, on the arm of the man you love, while he's wearing a kilt I might add, and having everyone turn to see you, move out of the way for you, take photographs, and call out congratulations for you. I am sure we're on a Facebook page somewhere in Japan ~ we joked to one another we are finally "Big In Japan"! It was an experience like no other, an unplanned perk of our wedding day, and when we arrived in the lobby to see our guests waiting patiently for us, we were so overwhelmed with the happiness of the moment. This was the best place to get married. Our friends and family were there. Everything was beautiful. Let's go start forever darling. . .
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