While I'm on the subject of the wedding party, I'd like to tell you more about what they are wearing and how I came up with the decision to do it this way.

I already told you about Rick's father passing away, who lived in Alabama. So we decided to have the best man and grooms men wear bibbed over hauls to depict this side of the family. The brides maids wore western clothes of their choosing. I'm from Arizona and thought this would depict my side of the family. This also tied into the theme of a "Moc Wedding". To go along with that, we didn't use a real preacher of any kind. We chose one of our good female friends to wear a black robe and perform the ceremony. The ushers were my twin nieces dressed alike in western wear. I even chose a lady friend who was known for talking loud to be the moc mother of the bride. She was to boohoo and wail off and on during the ceremony. Unfortunately she had to back out due to a sick family member.

The ceremony script was written entirely by myself and incorporated traditional vows as well as "Moc" vows made up from things in our lives, either past or present.

This kept the guest in an "oooh and aaah" state all the way through. We also included music during the seating of guests that had very special meaning to us as a couple dating, married, present and future. Again, since this was not your typical ceremony we had unexpected guest participation that kept everyone laughing as well. I can't wait to see the video of all this.

Up to this point I had not thought very much about the reception except for who to ask to be servers, etc. Time was closing in on me so we got together and started planning the reception. My husband initially thought we should have a "meal". I've seen this done, but didn't want to go that way. I've also seen where there was only cake, punch and coffee. I didn't what it to be that way either. So I decided somewhere in the middle. We picked out simple fruit bowls, fruit dips, finger foods, veggy platter with dips and the traditional punch, cake, coffee. Not too fancy and not too plane. It worked out perfect.