San Francisco California

 

The Groom has never been to San Francisco or seen the Golden Gate Bridge. Since Tahoe is only a few hours away, we decided we had to go see it. It's been years since I've been there so it seemed like a fun trip.

California drivers are the absolute worst drivers in the world. They just are. Are almost getting into an accident more then once from the hipster in front of us, we made it onto the bridge. Which was basically a parking lot. Our 3 hour drive turned into 5 hours. Typical of San Francisco. 

The downside is that because of the traffic we didn't make it there until 3:30 in the afternoon, which gave us very limited time to do much. It also happened to be fleet week, as well as a Blue Angels air show. It was pretty jam packed with people and craziness. 

We did walk along the piers down to Pier 39. We walked through the packed shopping distract to the back, where we got a good view of Alcatraz. We also of course had to make a quick stop to see the sea lions. I always LOVED going to Pier 39 and seeing the sea lion. They are like giant lazy cats of the ocean. 

We didn't have time to go out to Alcatraz, or see Fisherman's Warf which I'm bummed about. But we saw a few highlights. We then went to a fancy Italian restaurant for dinner right by the piers. I'm a snob when it comes to Italian food, but this place was actually amazingly good. Too bad I can't remember the name of it. 

After that we drove through the madness that is the city of San Francisco, crossed the Golden Gate bridge and got back to Tahoe about midnight. It was a long day, but very fun too.

Lake Tahoe - The Wedding

 

All of this geared up to the big day of getting married. There was a little drama leading up to the wedding (there is always drama) like the groom being in agonizing pain from a tooth that needed to be pulled, and the forecast the night before the wedding of snow and rain and a high of 38 degrees. 

But what can you do? We just rolled with it. Luckily the rain came in the morning. It was quite chilly, but the sun came out right before the ceremony and turned it into a beautiful day. Tahoe is always absolutely beautiful. We kept the wedding small, mainly just family and a few close friends. And it turned out just wonderful. Simple, but just right for us.

My bouquet - I love roses. Maybe that's a boring flower to like, but I have always loved roses. For the wedding we got a ton of roses in many different colors from Costco. 

Seriously, Costco is the best. We had all the flowers shipped to the house, then put them together myself. You just have to get them out of the boxes right away and get them in some water. But by the next day the open up and are just beautiful. 

For my bouquet I had always planned on just doing red roses. My mom passed away a few years ago, and the groom's sister had the genius idea to have e pick out a different colored rose, and they'd put it in the center of my bouquet in honor of my mom. So that's why there is the one yellow rose poking out of the sea of red. I never would have though of doing that, but I love it.

After the ceremony we had a dinner on the lake that night which was divine. Everyone was beyond full, And anyone who left hungry - well, that was their own fault. 

Beautiful day.