Sitting in the back of church

We had a wedding today,  and while I was sitting in church, I thought when you are the bride and groom, and the day goes so fast, you really don’t get to see everything that’s happening. The reason that I say this is because when we were all waiting in church, the anticipation just kind of grows to have the ceremony started. You know how much work goes into the wedding and are excited to have a good time! And you know that it’s getting close because all of a sudden the music changes it’s tone and then the grandparents and parents are escorted into the church. Then comes the bridesmaids and everyone is smiling and knowing that the bride is close.  Where we was sitting (in the back of church) something caught my eye in the balcony. I didn’t see the wedding photographer take a picture of it, and that was too bad because it was a really cool picture. What it was were a row of maybe 8 younger girls leaning over the balcony as far as they could without falling over just trying to get a glimpse of the bride coming in to walk down the aisle. Then as she came around the corner, I watched the people all stand and I think everyone of them had this big smile on their faces and looking straight at her. The ceremony is mostly always the same, but then when the bride and groom were saying their vows, we could see all the younger kids in the pews using their parents as kind of an anchor to help boost them up so they could watch just what was going on. Once the vows were done and the rest of the ceremony was over, now they marched down the aisle as husband and wife. So as we were waiting our turn to leave our pew, we started to people watch. We checked out who all made it to the ceremony, and who didn’t,  we found some of the kids who were in the wedding parents that we hadn’t seen for awhile, and then we watched these two elderly ladies who I swear knew everyone there. The one lady was on the one side of the church and the other lady was almost opposite of her on the other side of the church, and both were not far from us. Well, as people came down the aisle to leave, they literally either stopped at one or the other of these two ladies to say Hi. I don’t know, but the movie ‘Godfather’ is playing this weekend, and I swear that I see some similarities in these ladies and that movie…I’m just saying. While we were waiting,  we  also caught some people that we knew sneaking out to try to get in line sooner to congratulate the couple. Only to realize that now they missed wishing the couple good luck because the couple was in church and not outside. But just as they figured it out, it was too late for them because they went out the church doors and would look totally bad if they came back in again and tried to look like nothing was going on. Too funny! Then with the church emptied all but two pews, ours and the last one on the other side, it was our turn to wish the couple good luck. As we were leaving the church, I decided that my vote for the next wedding  is sit again in the back pew, it’s the best way to take in everything from the wedding!