The Day Before the Day Before The Wedding

All the planning has paid off and thankfully the cars were all big enough. Russ and I arrived at the girls house this morning and they had already packed their car to the brim. We looked at the flowers that filled their house, and I thought we were never going to get them all in our car.

Amazingly Carter and Russ “tetrised” those things and got all the flowers loaded. The good thing is they were packed so tightly nothing much moved inside the car. That was an important fact since we were driving that big ass vehicle through Boston and you know that more than one Masshole is going to pull out in front of you without warning. (MAsshole is an official term for a horrible driver, but does not mean that they are necessarily from MA nor does it imply that all MA residents are bad drivers.)

We had a few stops along our route to make, which broke the drive up perfectly. The first was in York, ME at Sara Fitz shop to get PJ’s for the after party. I asked the nice woman working about PJ’s explaining I needed them for my daughter’s wedding. She asked where my daughter was getting married and I said Camden. She looked at me and said, “Are you Carter’s Mom?” Claire’s best friend’s Mom works at the store, but I did not know her. So we took a selfie and she sent it to the girls.

Our second stop was for lunch in Brunswick. I had told Russ about a place I love called Wild Oats that has an amazing Soup bar. It was cold and rainy and I was really looking forward to their Hungarian Mushroom Soup or their fish Chowder. We got to the place at 1:00 and the entire soup bar of at least ten soups was empty, sold out of every soup. Shocking! It’s a Thursday. The cashier told us the bakery also sold out at like 11:00 AM. We got sandwiches which were good, but I was ready for soup.

We arrived at the Norembega, the Inn for the wedding and I can’t tell you how fantastic they are. Abby, the manager found a special storage area for all the flowers that Carter had already made into arrangements. And Pablo helped carry all the flowers that Carter still needs to put in vases to her room on the fourth floor and and our bags to ours on the third!

Russ and I ran into to town and did a tiny amount of shopping before we gathered to go have dinner at Claws with the girls and Barb and Dwayne, Claire’s parents. The girls gave us each presents and notes. Apparently it was a competition to see who could make their parents cry the most.

Barb and I each got Nantucket bracelets with out monogram and Dwayne and Russ got ties and pocket squares to wear at the wedding. We all loved them and will be wearing it all at the wedding, which I hope will not be a crying contest.

It was a perfect day before the day before the wedding. We are all settled into this beautiful place and can’t wait for the guests to come tomorrow.