My Best Friend's Wedding

     Friend:
     (noun)
     1. a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
     2. a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter.

     Friend. Comrade. Chum. Crony. Confidant. Advocate. Ally. Compatriot.

     Best Friend. Hopefully, you have one. I have one (other than my husband); her name is Lindsey. A better friend I couldn't possibly ask for. God knew what he was doing when he put us together. We have one of those friendships where no matter how far away we are, or how long between our talks - things don't change. I know I can depend on her. She listens. She cares. I know that she'll be there for me - and visa-versa. We're besties. (It's what we do.) 

     I have known Lindsey for... gosh... almost 21 years? We've been best friends for about 15 years now. I'm going to guess that we met in nursery at church. She was a few years younger than me; that's why we haven't been best friends from day one.

     This weekend, she got married.

     We picked up the kids (Ben's youngest cousins) and headed down the road Friday afternoon. The drive was long, but went by relatively quickly. I got to see Lindsey for a little while at the Bridal luncheon on Saturday. I figured she had a lot on her plate, so I didn't expect to get much one on one time with her. Me and Prince Charming got to spend quality time with the bride and groom at the rehearsal party though - which made me super happy.
     The wedding day was my favorite though. I got up, cleaned up, washed up, and then ditched Prince Charming and the kids to go spend some time with the bride. She was hanging out by herself when I got to her house, so I got my wish and got to spend best friend time with my bestie. We did our nails, ate, talked, and talked, and talked some more. I got to do her wedding makeup and watched while she did her hair. (I learned how to curl your hair with a flat iron - amazing! I also almost fell off of the side of the bathtub multiple times while talking. I should probably work on my balance.) I even got to help put the bobbie pins in! Then she headed off to start the pictures and me and the girls were left to finish getting ourselves ready. This sounds silly, but those couple hours getting ready meant the world to me. I'm so very glad I got to spend those precious hours her.
     We took pictures and then the "Fabulous Five" (I'll explain that one more later.) got to hang around and take a few private pictures around her parents house while we waited on time to head to the church.
     Then it was time to leave... She hid out in the car while we lined up. The the last memory I'll have of my Lindsey G. was her peeking around the corner of the church in her wedding dress. It was so her. I almost cried. 
     I kept it together the entire wedding. It didn't really hit me until I saw her and her own Prince Charming walking out of the church; she was gone. She was starting a new chapter in her life. All of the memories of all of the chats, the Ben and Jerry's ice cream, the sleepovers, the secrets, all of those little moments leading up to this moment all hit me at once. (They're still crowding my mind now.) I started bawling my eyes out. (Crying while typing this...) I couldn't see walking down the stinking aisle! (And I'm pretty sure the photographer got a super-too-close picture of my face all scrunched up. Oh well, at least I can laugh.)

    I guess now our Prince Charming's will be the ones to hear our secrets first, eat Ben and Jerry's with us, get to talk to us the most, and be our very bestest friends... but, gladly, they know that we're still BFF's Forever and EVER though - and happily, they don't seem to mind. No one can or could ever hold a candle to my Bestie.

    Yes, my Lindsey G. is no more... She's now Lindsey P. But I think I like it. It's got a nice ring to it. I like her Prince Charming too - he's an awesome and funny guy. I'm so glad she caught him. PLUS they're a good looking couple, so they'll have some good looking children one day.


    I'm glad me and Bestie have a whole new chapter of our lives we can go through together - plus, now we have some good looking counterparts to make this chapter even more fun and interesting.



   There are so many stories I could tell; so many memories I could share - and this post is no where near as awesome as it deserves to be - but all of that would make this post entirely too long. (Sorry to be such a sap tonight.) So, let's end tonight with a song: