Congratulations Brad and Colleen!

Brad and Colleen's Wedding

Britt's entry:
Sean's friend, Brad, asked him about a year ago to be a groomsman in his 7/7/07 wedding in Bellingham. This involved a trip up to Bellingham to get fitted for tuxes, which was really an excuse for a big "man-date", and a bachelor weekend at Whistler which ended up with most of the guys saying, "Man, my butt hurts," for days. (They mountain biked. Get your mind out of the gutter.)

So Sean headed up there with Garbs on Friday to attend the rehearsal, pick up the tux and give Brad one last bachelor stripper trip (encouraged by Colleen!). Apparently strippers at Honey's in Everett accurately reflect the impression you probably have of strippers at Honey's in Everett. Shocker.

The tux pick-up didn't quite turn out as planned, but I'm under strict instructions not to say, "I told you so". Does typing it count? Hope not. Either way, Sean looked hhhhhhhhot. And since it was over 80 degrees, I'm guessing he was pretty warm, too.

Garbs' girl, Natasha, met me at the house on Saturday afternoon so we could carpool up to B-ham together, and lucky it worked out because we kept each other laughing all night long! She is a ton of fun! Together we drank a lot, mocked the guys, fixed a fashion emergency with club soda and safety pins, rescued beta fish from certain mutilation, drank a lot, mocked the guys, took random pictures, and drank a lot.

The wedding party was a lot of fun, too - nearly everyone who wasn't family seemed to be around our age and once the DJ started up, there was serious dancing until we closed up at midnight. I never realized Sean was so anti-YMCA, but we danced for almost all of the others, and it's been far too long since I've been out dancing, so I was rocking!

After we cleared out of the Bellingham ferry terminal (actually a cool spot for a wedding), we went back to our hotel. **Note: AVOID THE RODEWAY HOTEL IN BELLINGHAM** I can't believe we paid money to sleep in that place. If only I'd known that the mattress was like a block of concrete, the pillow was less effective than a folded sweatshirt and they were out (OUT?) of extras, and the walls are paper thin (the people next door apparently had some stamina and didn't care who heard).

All in all it was one of the most fun weddings I've been to! So, Congratulations Brad and Colleen, we hope you had as much fun as we did! And Garbs and Tash - can't wait to hang out with you guys again : )