A Grand Evening for a Reception

On with the show in this final installement!

After taking photos around Waukesha and spending some well deserved time taking in just how beautiful our wedding party looked, we headed to the reception hall. Upon getting in, most of the wedding party flocked to the appetizers that were around the place. I think in general, we were all starving. Eventually we got organized and headed in. We entered to "Lionis and Lucy" from Peanuts. Laura and I came in and more-or-less strutted our stuff over to the cake (what a cake it was) and cut a piece. We then got the table and the mike was passed around for the speeches. My brothers went first. Praveen talked about how we went from enemies to friends and Raj chatted it up about Laura and I. I honestly had to look down at the floor to keep from out-right balling. Kristy and Dorothy took up the mic and provided a large batch of tears from Laura. We then got onto the real deal of the whole wedding: the food. And what a deal it was. I think the only regret from almost everyone at the wedding was being unable to have more space in our bellies for more food. It was all so damn good! But there was much to be getting on with. We eventnually stepped out into the hallway to take some extra photos but then we rushed back in to do a speed-record of visits to all the tables. We dished out hugs and at about 5 a minute. We then took the dance floor for the grand first dance. We got to try out our dance lessons to "Come Away with Me" by Norah Jones. After that we did the Mother/Father dances then it was time to get it rocking. We kicked off with Polka in which I began the tradition of running around the room telling people "I need help" and dragging them up the dance floor. For several songs we kept grabbing more and more people. Laura and I made and effort to dance as much as possible and get everyone in the room to do the same. We eventually moved onto the garder belt event. For this, the DJs asked me to perform dances (alone) in front of Laura and to keep doing so until the Laura granted here approval. I am not sure what happened, but something over took me and I became more crazy until eventually I had to striptease in front of the whole wedding to get her approval. From that point on, the rest of the night was an exhausted, dancing, adrenile filled blur. At the end of the night, we slowly made our way to our hotel room and collapsed in a fit of exhaustion.

And so ends the greatest wedding Naveen will ever be the groom in and Laura will ever be the bride in. Thanks again to all attended and a special thanks to Praveen and Raj Nattam, Kaiden Smith, Nathan Summers, Adam Whitman, Chris Barngrover, Kristy Skowronski, Dorothy Hatchell, Becky Hansen, Julie Townsend, Keth Vasu, Tom and Lynda Skowronski, my Parents and every other person who helped make the wedding what it was.

Oy vey. Now onto married life with a crazy animated wife and a cuddly yet surly cat. Ain't it all grand.