Fun with Work Friends & Tiffany's Wedding!

This past weekend was a fun one.  Thursday night went to a work happy hour at a mexican bar near work. I wouldn't recommend it since they tried to pad the bill TWICE at one table...jerks.  But aside from that we had fun. One of our support staff is leaving and heading to med school and another coworker who recently moved to North Carolina was back in town for a wedding.  Which brings us to Saturday night when another coworker, Tiffany got married. 

We showed up early to the church because we had no idea what traffic was going to be like on a Saturday afternoon in Chicago. Then we had about a 5 minute panic attack when we thought we were in the wrong place because there was some kind of hispanic celebration going on inside and not a single other person from the wedding was there.  Finally the bridal party arrived so we knew we were in the right place.  We couldn't believe the church would book two services so close together but everyone finally cleared out and it ended up being fine. 

Tiffany's twin nieces were the flower girls and they were ADORABLE!  The one on the left sniffed the flower the whole walk down the aisle and the one on the right looked like she was mad at the world the whole time! The aisle was loooooooooong and they were moving at a snail's pace but after they finally made it down the aisle everyone clapped for them...it was too cute.  Tiffany looked ah-mazing and I'm annoyed with my last minute decision to not bring my camera and use my iphone instead. Epic iphone fail as every single picture turned out blurry!!! 

There was about an hour and a half to kill between the ceremony and the reception so about 60 people packed into this tiny bar right next to the Stan Mansion (where the reception was being held). The poor bartender/waitress had no idea what hit her but she did her best to serve everyone....and probably made 50 times what she would normally make on a Saturday afternoon! It was fun to hang with work friends before the reception!

Finally we made it over to the cocktail hour and it reminded me of being in a crowded college bar! The place itself was really nice but the cocktail room where the bars were was tiny and it was SO LOUD!  We eventually made our way into the dinner area and found a prime spot for standing inconspicuously right where the servers were bringing out the hors d'oeuvres (the bacon wrapped dates and crabcakes were my favs!)  After a long dinner there was a lot of dancing and we had a great time. Although their taste in music was a little different than ours (DJ with techno rap versus 80's cover band), my feet were still sore at the end of the night!

Digi Tiffany and Andy!