Tucker made it down the aisle.
It's risky to have a ring bearer who is not quite 2, but Tucker was a champ and willingly rolled down the aisle at my brother's wedding this weekend, and successfully delivered the (real) rings. He even willingly wore his tuxedo for almost four hours. Wow.
I was too busy making sure we made it to the ceremony in one piece to keep track of a camera, but I know other people took pics of him, so we'll eventually have the evidence.
Of course, the real highlight was that Mike and Kat got married--but I wasn't in nearly as much suspense about whether that would happen as I was about the ring bearer's performance. :)
The weather did throw them some curves, like raining so hard there was a foot of standing water on the road the afternoon of the rehearsal dinner. But the rain held off for the three hours before the ceremony, and the skies didn't let loose until the bride and groom had recessed (I think the rest of the wedding party got a little wet...).
Other adversity included my cousin Steve's almost 40-hour saga getting to the wedding. A family member had bought his plane ticket, so the credit card name was not in his own name--and he got flagged for potential fraud. But the ticket counters were so backed up, and he had to wait in three different lines that by the time his ticket was striaghtened out the door to his flight had closed. No rehearsal dinner for Steve.
But the story gets even worse. It was a red eye flight, so his only option was to go home and come back in 6 hours for the first flight out in the morning. That went off without a hitch, and he got to Dulles with plenty of time for his connection to Burlington. Of course, it was raining cats and dogs in Burlington so the flight there was delayed an hour. They finally boarded, only to be informed when the flight's doors were closed that Burlington's runways were still closed and they just had to wait. The flight to Burlington is only about an hour... they held Steve's flight on the ground in Dulles for THREE hours, before giving up and letting them disembark. By this time, two flights to Burlington had been cancelled and there were 120 Burlington passengers in line at the ticket counter with one representative.
Steve spent two hours in line before confirming that no flights were available to either Burlington or Albany in the next day, at which time he took a taxi to the Amtrak station and had about an hour to kill before a 3 am train ride to Albany. Of course, his connection in NY was delayed and then due to track flooding the train slowed to a top speed of 20 mph for a chunk of the journey.
He did make it to the wedding, though. :)
