1-4-24 After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 3

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And you always have the option of the podcast. So here's what I want you to know. This is right smack dab in the middle of the wedding story. Okay, so if you're just tuning in, you have no idea who I am, or you don't know what I'm talking about tonight, this is the show that we've dedicated half of it to sharing the wedding story. Not only my favorite moments, and I've got a top 10 countdown, but also what went wrong. And I've started to sprinkle them in what went wrong. I promise you that, well, I promise you that I'll get to all of what I have vowed to share this hour. For those of you who missed what happened in the last hour, you're gonna have to get the podcast because I don't have time to double back.

I know I gave you fair warning. This was the wedding show. Some of you don't care. That's great. Oh my gosh, some guy wrote to me on Twitter earlier, Jay, and said, every time you talk about the wedding, it's a ratings killer. That's my favorite tweet.

Oh my gosh. Does he have the ratings? Yeah, apparently he does. Anyway, I know many of you are sending questions too. And so we can't double back. We don't have time. Please check out the podcast. We put the link up every weekday morning on our Facebook page, as well as our show Twitter After Hours CBS.

So get it there. I'll share it later in the day. I know that a lot of you tune in and out. And so you're only getting part of it or you're joining halfway through. Again, I'm sorry I don't have time to go back and share the whole story again, but you don't want to miss it. Marco, Jay, part of it, and how I got bit by a horse, and the drone that crashed, and some of the other hysterical moments.

But there's still more what went wrong. And also some of the secrets that I couldn't reveal to you before the wedding because I didn't want Bob to know, but now I can share them with you as part of this wedding show. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. If you want to call in, I think Jay's taking some calls and some questions, and he has also got questions from both Twitter and Facebook. And so we'll get to those coming up, I swear. 15 minutes from now, Jay's going to field your questions. It's almost like a wedding version of Ask Amy post-ceremony. Alright, so a few more things that went wrong, Producer Jay, because these were actually stressful at the time, but I look back now and obviously everything worked out great. But yeah, these were some of the things that stuck with me and that I thought, I'm never going to get over that.

Okay, so you ready? Before the ceremony, my three bridesmaids, they were my sister-in-law, who was my de facto maid of honor, she was helping me out, and then my two nieces. Okay, so it was an all family affair. Bob had all family with his wedding party, I had all family in my wedding party. And we were getting ready in a cabin that was right there on the property.

Thank God it was on the property because this would have been a much bigger issue. So we were about, I don't know, a quarter mile away, separate driveway, but right there on the same ranch getting ready. The makeup lady, because I was getting married in Texas, was someone I did not know. I'd never met her before. She showed up, I met her, said hello, how you doing, la la la, and that was five minutes before she sat me down in the chair. What I didn't realize is that she was very talkative, and that's great.

She was very personable, she was a lot of fun, I really liked her. She spent 45 minutes before she ever started my makeup, yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak, doing a couple of test things but then telling me why and why she didn't like and her philosophy on makeup and life and everything else. She starts 45 minutes after she's supposed to.

So as you can imagine, this pushes everything back, like everything back. So there were only three of us getting makeup, my mom included, but five people getting their hair done. So the two of them are doing it at the same time, right? One person's in the hair chair, I'm in the makeup chair. By the time she gets done with my makeup, it is about 15 minutes before I'm supposed to be dressed. Well, excuse me, half hour before I'm supposed to be dressed and taking our first photos. Now we didn't see each other before the ceremony, but we were going to take this first touch photo where you're standing on either side of a barn. You can't see each other, but there's a photo being taken while you're holding hands, right? So about half hour before we're supposed to do that, I sit down to get my hair done because she took forever doing my makeup.

But mostly just like buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh. So anyway, as it goes on, we had to cancel that first touch photo and the wedding coordinator said people started arriving an hour beforehand. And so he said we really couldn't do it anyway because if you didn't want the majority of people to see you beforehand, we really weren't going to be able to hide you.

The secret was out. Right, so that was the deal. We ended up not doing the photo, but it was not just because I was running late.

It was also because there were too many people on the property at that point already. So it didn't turn out to be that huge disaster, but here's what happened. I was getting into my dress, my nieces were helping me, that part went okay. But it took a while, you know, like you can't just get into your dress and whatever. And then she had to finish kind of my makeup and we had to make sure everything was okay. My brother then drove me over to the chapel and I got in the pride's room. Well, what I didn't realize is that my nieces and my mom were still getting their hair done.

And because she had spent so much time, everything got pushed back. It's 3.25, the wedding's supposed to start in five minutes. I'm by myself in the pride's room. My sister-in-law's not there, my nieces are not there, my mother is not there. My mom wasn't even dressed at that point. Five minutes before the wedding, she's still sitting in the makeup chair. My sister-in-law's still getting her hair done because everything had been pushed back. Did they know? Like, let's move? They knew, they knew, but there was no- No, not your mom and your sister, the hairdresser. Right, so they recognized, but by this point, what are they going to do? Other than cut corners, what are you going to do, right?

And so they're hustling, they're rushing. I'm over there, like, texting my sister-in-law, you guys have to get over here now! So thankfully the coordinator said, no problem, we'll push the wedding back five minutes, right?

So it was not that big of a deal, ultimately. But I'm starting to freak out a little bit because I'm in the bride's room by myself and the wedding's supposed to start in five minutes. So I'm texting my sister-in-law, where are you guys?

Get over here! And then they show up and my mom's still not there. I'm like, oh my gosh, Hunter was our wedding coordinator.

Hunter, what do we do, what do we do? He's like, it's okay, we'll just push back the wedding. Right, so we do, and I'm sure this is not a unique story. I'm sure there are plenty of weddings that started late. I just saw a listener on our Facebook page say that his mom, either his mom or his wife's mom was an hour late, and so they had to wait for her.

I'm sure people get lost, I'm sure it happens all the time. But because it was such a harried, like, hurried experience right before the wedding started, I actually never saw myself in the mirror. I left the cabin, my brother walked me out to the vehicle, he got me over to the chapel. I didn't see myself in the mirror until I was in the bride's room. And then as I looked in the mirror, I started to get teary, like, oh my gosh, this is happening, right? But then that was quickly replaced by, where is my wedding party? That was a nice moment for a second.

It was a nice moment for a second. Anyway, so my mom gets brought over to the chapel after the wedding was supposed to start. She's all frazzled, I'm like, it's okay mom, you look beautiful. She also never saw herself before she got to the chapel. And come to find out, they're like hustling around the door, she's still pulling on her clothes. My brother's like, mom, come on, let's go, let's go. She's like, I'm not dressed.

So she's like, she put her shoes on in the vehicle as she's going to the wedding. My poor mom, and yet she looked absolutely beautiful. I didn't take any photos that day, neither did Bob. We really didn't have our phones with us the whole time. Although we did text five minutes before the wedding started. He was in front, right, in a groom's room. I was in back and we were texting just how much we couldn't wait to see each other. But the wedding got delayed five minutes.

We put our phones down and never picked them up again. Anyway, one of the photos that a friend of mine took that I cherish on her phone, she took a photo of my mom and I in the bride's room before the ceremony. And my mom looks beautiful. And it's just a photo that I've shared with family and friends.

Because it's the only one I had, but also it's one that really was special to me. So mom did amazing. The moms walked down the aisle, escorted by one of their sons.

And they had their own, they walked down to Canon and D for people who know the music. We had a cello and piano arrangement, which was glorious. Then, so this is really cool, we're in the bride's room now. So it's my brother who walked my mom down the aisle and who came back.

My two nieces and my sister-in-law. When the music started, the music they had picked, so I allowed them to pick music to walk down the aisle, this eek like noise went up in the bride's room. It was really sweet. We all got so excited. But I'll tell you what, when the music started, my stomach started somersaulting.

Like, oh my gosh, this is actually real. I'm getting ready to walk down the aisle. But my nieces were so happy. They were, my nieces and my sister-in-law were amazing. I couldn't have asked for better bridesmaids. It was just, it was really sweet moments in the bride's room, as were, like, my mom leaves, my brother walks her down the aisle, and then it's the four of us in there, and they're just giddy. And they're happy, and my younger niece is jumping up and down because the music just made her so happy.

And then one by one, they walk out the door, and I am left in there by myself. And Jay, it was, there were nerves, but I also had to prevent myself from, like, crying at that point because I'm, it was coming so, it was coming so fast, even after it was late. And I just couldn't believe that I was about to finally step outside of the bride's room and everyone was going to see me. So that was pretty awesome. Those sweet moments with my family beforehand were amazing. All right, I'm going to save the part about walking down the aisle because that is a big mystery that was revealed, not just to Bob, but to everybody else in the chapel.

And I'm going to save that to the very end because it was probably my most, my most cherished moment, other than saying I do and putting on the wedding ring, my most cherished moment of the entire day, outside of the family connections, was the moment that the song was finally revealed, the song that I'd pick 15 years beforehand to walk down the aisle. How did your niece do? Remember she was nervous a couple months ago?

Yes, my younger niece. Well, the fun part is that my older niece walked down first. And I haven't seen the video yet, but people told me that my older niece was relatively stoic. She didn't really smile a whole lot.

Like she just, I guess the coordinator had reminded them to smile, but maybe when people are staring at you, you just don't smile. Anyway, so she got down there first. I guess my younger niece did really well. And as she saw my older niece, so she was nervous at the beginning, but as she walked a little farther down and saw her sister, then she broke into big smiles.

And I think Deanna was making a couple faces at her and just whatever, yeah. So the two of them did great. My sister-in-law was awesome.

They all looked beautiful in their royal purple. That part was fantastic. Thankfully, nothing went wrong other than the fact that my poor mom was five minutes late to the wedding. Almost didn't make it to the aisle, but she made it. Yeah.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. All right, so going over some of the other things that did not go according to plan. I told you about the duct tape on the shoes, about the seating chart, about how the horse bit me.

During the ceremony, oh, and I just shared with you about the makeup lady. Again, she did a great job, but she nearly derailed the entire timing of the day. Was it a good conversation at least? I mean, it was, but it was a lot of just her telling stories. And so it was great. I really liked her.

I just wish we'd had an extra hour for her stories because it wasn't enough time. And it turned into like at the end, just a frenzy. Come on. Right. I mean, I was nearly in tears getting dressed because with a wedding dress, you can't rush it.

Right. Like not my wedding dress. You couldn't rush it. I had to get ready.

And I was freaking out, like trying to find things in the room now. And my nieces had to come help me. So they were like, it's Amy. Auntie.

They call me Auntie Amy. Auntie Amy, it's fine. You're fine. There's plenty of time. Don't worry.

You look amazing. But it I had this moment of like, you know, like beforehand, because I realized the time is running out anyway. So during the ceremony, we were supposed to do a unity candle. We couldn't get the candle lit. We tried. We tried everything. We tried the two candles that our moms had lit. They wouldn't light our candle.

We tried. They're actually the lighter that was there for the moms to light the candle. It was still sitting there.

That wouldn't work either. So as we're trying everything, there's wax just pouring off of the two candles all over my thumbs. So I ended up with wax all over my two thumbs. Was it hot? It was hot. It was very hot.

Let's hope that the photographer didn't get photos of that. But yeah, so it didn't burn, but it was pretty hot. So as I'm trying to light the candle, my thumb, especially my right thumb is covered with wax.

Bob and I are cracking up like little kids because it's so comical. We can't get the candle lit. Forget it. There's no unity. There's no unity candle.

Meanwhile, I've got wax all over my thumb and my right hand. So that didn't go according to plan either. In fact, I think we didn't even get the candle lit. I'm not sure if we did. We may have given up on it or maybe we finally got it lit with the lighter, but that also did not go according to plan. How long were you attempting there? Was everyone watching?

A good four minutes before we finally gave up on it. Okay, so two more things that didn't go right, that are comical now, but at the time I was like, no. All right. So you ready for this? People started eating our cupcakes, which were our wedding cake before we ever had the cutting or the presentation or anything. Oh no.

Yeah. So Jay, at the reception, we had our tables in the middle and people were eating dinner. We had told people that as soon as dinner was done, the cookie bar is open. Somehow people decided that the cupcakes were fair game and they were at a different part of the reception. They weren't there.

Right? They weren't with the cookies. They were on the other end.

No, no. They were on the other end. They were set up. They're all decorative. There's lights around them. Twinkle lights were our theme for the reception.

So the reception is covered with twinkle lights everywhere. The cake, there were dressers, like old antique dressers in the barn and the cupcakes were set up there on tiers. I am, I don't know if I went to talk to someone at the back of the barn and I realized there's cupcakes missing.

Like there's entire, like the tier is, it's essentially been ravaged. And I'm asking people like at the end of the tables, do you know who's eating the cupcakes? And I look and I see there's cupcakes, like the two ends of the tables just started helping themselves. Cupcakes were disappearing before we ever even shared what the cupcakes were about.

Oh my gosh. So people started eating our wedding cupcakes before we ever had like a ceremony, photos, nothing. So when the photographer finally, when we get to the point where we're, you know, doing the cupcakes as if, you know, it's our wedding cake, Bob and I, we're going to eat them together, right?

We had to rearrange them because so many were missing that we had to take photos, like kind of fake the photos because half the cupcakes were gone. Did anyone say like, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize, or did they just kind of... No, just, oh, whoops. Like that was, I got that like, oh, whoops, sorry, didn't know we were supposed to wait. But it was kind of funny because we realized if we'd had a, could you imagine people eating your wedding cake before you ever get back there? No.

Well, that was our wedding cake. And what I've come to find out is if you don't explain every little thing to people, they're just going to do whatevs. So yeah. But it was like I was saying, if it's, if they were on the same table in the same area, then maybe I could see them miscommunication. Nah, these were a completely different part of the barn. Yeah. You directed people towards where to go and they went the other way and took food on a different table.

I don't know. Like I mentioned, like I said, there was no cake there. And so that was our wedding cake. But yeah, we ended up getting a few photos after the fact and the cupcakes were delicious. They turned out amazingly well.

My best friend and I started Saturday morning, went through the whole process. We made 80 cup, or 80 cupcakes. We were able to pick the ones we wanted. She frosted them with the buttercream frosting. So the cupcakes were white chocolate raspberry in a vanilla cupcake with chocolate ganache filling and a buttercream frosting. They were delectable. They were perfect. And on Saturday evening, one of my favorite moments is that we decorated them together. So my best friend, another friend of mine that were staying with my mom, and then my younger niece, we decorated them and it was really sweet.

We had little purple beads on them and then we had purple flowers and we really enjoyed that. And I hope people enjoyed them because they were half gone by the time we got to that. I guess people liked them, right? They grabbed them. Yeah.

So there were cupcake thieves at the wedding. Finally, one other thing that, and this is probably the moment that I wish that I could forget. I don't know why the TV just turned on. Hold on. All right. So I guess we're going, just the volume went on like you can hear it in the background.

The moment that I think bothered me the most, other than the seating chart snafu or seating chart being hijacked, is that the pastor, who's a long time friend of mine, forgot my new husband's last name. So we do our first kiss as, yeah, right, right. I know. I know.

I know. He says, you may now kiss your bride. And the music comes up underneath the kiss. It was sweet.

People are cheering. As we get done doing our first kiss, the music's still playing. The pastor, again, long time friend of mine, I love him and his wife dearly. Pastor says, I now introduced to you, Mr. and Mrs. blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He says our names, Bob and Amy, and then goes, and like stops.

And Bob says to him, like whispers to him, his last name and all he could get out was never said the last name. Never said it. I swear to you, he never said it to right now. He still never said it. And he said to me, he was so embarrassed. He was mortified. As you can imagine, he said he practiced for weeks. You got to write that on your hand.

That's the one thing. Apparently it was even on his iPad in front of him and he could not spit it out. He told me after he just had a brain fart, but even after Bob said it to him, he couldn't submit it out. At that point, he was just mortified. He saw the eyes on him, it was over.

So Bob's whole family starts laughing because they're used to it. He didn't even mispronounce it. He just, he didn't say it at all.

It's a tough last name. No, it's not really. It's not. I mean, once you see it and you say it, it's not at all.

But he just had, and he had been practicing it for weeks, he said. He just had a brain fart. It was one of those moments where you're just, your mind goes blank and he said he got so nervous and he felt so bad that he just couldn't get it out.

I get it. I guess. That's, oh man, was it, you guys laughing at the end? We did laugh, but I mean, it bothered me at first, but how can you get mad at the guy?

I mean, the ceremony was great. He's a good friend of mine. He didn't do it on purpose. What was he, what did he say?

Yeah. Afterwards he just, he apologized profusely. He said, I feel so terrible. I'm so sorry. I don't know what happened. My mind just went blank. And at that point, all I could say was it doesn't matter. Like you did a great job. You know?

Thank you. But yeah, it was a story. Yeah. But of all the things, right?

Of all the things. I can't believe that. We never did have our last name revealed to people at the ceremony.

It never got out there. It could be anybody. We're just Mr. and Mrs. Bob and Amy. We have no last name today with the whites tomorrow with the Smiths.

Yeah. We're just, we're whatever we're going to be. The bocceone. So we're going to be, we're going to be the Lawrence's. We're going to be the, whatever we want. We're going to be the Belitties.

We don't, we don't officially have a last name. Oh gosh. That's funny. All right. Coming up.

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Salute top three favorite moments from the wedding. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast. Say my name, say my name, no one is around you, say baby I love you, you ain't running game.

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You're creative ilk. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio. This is the wedding show. Thank you so much for caring, for laughing with me, and some of you are sharing your stories and your photos which means a lot to me. I'll admit that some of these things that didn't go as planned, I obsessed over them for about 48 hours and then Bob and I decided we were going to focus on what we loved about the ceremony, what we loved about the people who were there, and honestly as we've gotten further away, so we've now been married just under three weeks, as we've gotten further away, what remains is the joy and the gratefulness for the people that showed up and how special that day and that experience will always be for us and we haven't even seen the photos yet.

We just got them last night and we agreed to wait until the weekend so thank you all. But I'm not kidding, our name will never be revealed at the wedding. It was like a whole privacy thing, we just didn't even bother to say our name. Say my name, say my name. Alright Jay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, thank you for reminding me.

Jay's put together a few of your questions that he's collected from social media so that he can ask them now and you can get your questions answered. Alright this comes from Joe and he asks, during the ceremony were there tears, chuckles, both? Oh there were plenty of laughs.

There were plenty of laughs, like when the pastor couldn't say our name, the only thing that we could do was laugh. The tears were, for me, primarily when I was walking down the aisle and not only because my brother was walking me down the aisle, because my mom was crying at the end of the aisle, because my friends as I walked through the middle, a lot of them had tears. All of my friends said to me, especially my girlfriends, said to me that they cried through most of the ceremony because they all recognized how long I waited for this and how much it meant to me. And so there were tears then, just the magnitude of having my family and the people that mattered most to me there.

He was a basket case from almost the beginning. So starting at the beginning of his vows all the way through his vows, he was choked up. I was determined to make eye contact with him so when he would tear up I had to be careful that I didn't just completely lose it. There were two moments during my vows when I said a couple of things that were significant to me.

I also teared up. And so that happened. We laughed over the candle. We laughed over some of the other things, like he couldn't get the ring on my finger and so he kept pushing and pushing and it wouldn't go over my knuckle, which is funny because it fits fine, but for whatever reason he couldn't get the ring over my knuckle. And so that was funny too. So yeah, we had a few laughs, but there were definitely some teary, just joyful teary moments. More just emotional and feeling how important and how special and memorable these moments were.

This comes from Nick. He wants to know, what was one thing you were pleasantly surprised with on your wedding day? Ooh, good question.

Let's see. I would say I was pleasantly surprised with how much fun we had dancing, right? So again, the group of us, there were about 15, 20 of us, we just danced like wild abandoned, nobody watching. And I wasn't sure I would get a chance to do that because I thought that maybe people would want to come talk to me and they did, but for the most part, they waited until we were done dancing and it wasn't as big a group as I thought, you know, it wasn't everybody. Half the people left when the dancing started, the older people, and that was okay, but to just have a blast, and I said this earlier, I had no idea that my new husband could cut a rug the way that he did. I mean, he danced around me and I was, I was at times incredulous, like, who are you?

Like, what are you doing? So I'd never seen him dance before, but we had a blast. Like my brother's family, you know, parts of his family, we just, we loved it. We laughed, we screamed, we, you know, we jumped up and down, the dancing was probably something that was a big surprise because that's just not normally what I do, but also I'd never seen him dance before, so it was awesome.

A smaller group of dancers who are all into it and having fun and committed is more fun than just a bigger group, or just standing there on the floor. Yes, no, they weren't, nobody was standing. We're all like looking like total idiots. It was awesome. Daryl wants to know, was there something unexpected that happened that was a good thing that happened? Something unexpected that was a good thing that happened.

You know what? I really enjoyed the fact that so many people came up to take individual photos with me. Now, I don't, I haven't seen a lot of them. Some of the people have sent them to me, but loved the fact that people kept pulling me aside to say, you know, how much we, you know, we love the experience, we're glad that we're here, and can we take photos? So that was kind of neat.

I really enjoyed that. My brother took some photos of just Bob and I together. There was a bit of photo booth and a pillow that said Mr. and Mrs., and so we took some photos with that.

They turned out really well. So yeah, unexpectedly, just to have those special moments with family and friends. I didn't actually speak to everyone at the wedding. Like I said, some people left before I had a chance to and didn't say goodbye, but the ones who stayed, that was awesome, you know, to get so many of them who brought their cookies and took the photos and it just, I'll cherish those conversations, brief conversations with people who would come from far and wide. So unexpectedly, like I said, the dancing was amazing. My husband dancing was awesome and just the really neat photo opportunities and they've sent them, right? And then just to see myself with them, you know, it's been pretty cool. Matt asks, any advice for surviving the day, he says, I'm getting married a little later this year. Oh, awesome. Congratulations.

Any advice? You know what? I try to keep in perspective that it was the people that mattered. So when these things went wrong or didn't go the way that we planned them, we just kept reminding each other, the people who are here, that's what matters most to us, right?

The people who showed up for us, that's what we want to focus on. And we did, oh my gosh, I forgot this moment. There's a moment that's unexpected. An older couple who are even like older than us, like whatever, we're old, but older than us. So in their sixties, they came up and I had not met them before.

They were friends of Bob's. His friend said, my wife is so disappointed because now your husband is off the market. And at the time I was like, okay, that's a little odd. His wife shakes my hand, says, congratulations and says, I'm your husband's cougar, says, I'm your husband's cougar.

And I was, as you can imagine, taken aback, like what? That's not appropriate for the wedding day. And it's this older lady who, I mean, she's got to be 20 years older than us, at least 15 years older than us. And she says, I'm your husband's cougar right to my face at the wedding.

So not only did her husband say that my wife is so disappointed that he's off the market, but then right on the heels of that, I'm your husband's cougar. Yeah. Good to know. Yeah. Good to know. Thank you.

TMI. Anyway. So that, that part was pretty funny too.

Like didn't, didn't see that coming or hear that coming. Interesting. Yeah. I wouldn't say that to the, uh, this one's a post-wedding question here. This comes from Bobby. He wants to know, have you adjusted to going home to a full house?

Oh man. What yesterday morning was an example of this. Hubs was already awake. Coffee was already brewing.

He was already going and blowing and get ready for the day. The pets, all three of them like flock to me the second I walk in the door. So it's, it's quite a different atmosphere from my quiet dog Penny who half the time can't hear me come home anymore to a crazy puppy and a cat who wants attention. The two of them are jealous. They're vying for attention and Penny's like a clod hopper right in the middle and husband's yelling down from upstairs.

Good morning sweetheart. I mean, it's a totally different atmosphere. There's people here. Yeah. There's people and there's pets.

And so no, I haven't adjusted yet because the house is still complete chaos. There's bags and boxes and noise everywhere. I mean, we can't figure out how to get one pet to eat her food versus another pet eating her food. They're all eating each other's food. There's community water. Like there's fleas. Like there's just everything. Everyone's just figuring it out right now.

So yeah, we're, we've not yet adjusted. Real quick to add on to Bobby's, he asks, has Bob touched the thermostat yet? Obviously he has, but because I've asked him to, I don't think he's played with it on his own, but he does. Now this is Bob, my Texas husband. He has a space heater in the office where he's working just in case he gets cold.

And guess what, Jay? There's snow in the forecast for the weekend. So how kind of our Lord to send snow on the weekend when he doesn't have to go anywhere, right? So he can enjoy it for the first time. So yeah, we're apparently supposed to get four to six inches in my neighborhood and you know me, I'm thrilled, but he's a little nervous, so don't worry.

Welcome to New Jersey. I'll do the driving. All right. Last one. Oh yes.

I'm sorry. Was your special day everything that you had always imagined it would be? No, but it was better.

Nice. It was better. And coming up the top three memories that I will cherish for the rest of my life.

My top three favorite moments of wedding weekend. Thank you guys. We'll see you next time. We'll see you next time. Bye.

Bye. This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Love you guys for all your comments. Thank you so much. This is not a song that we played at the wedding, though it would have been perfect.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. I will go back and answer some of your questions when I have a chance. I haven't at this point been able to answer a whole lot on Facebook or Twitter trying to make sure I don't miss anything or the significant moments. And I have saved the best for last, if you will. So the top three or so memories of the entire weekend for me. I want to share those with you. And I have shared some of my favorites, some of my memories that will stick with me. But there were a few more that really mattered to me and that couldn't have gone any better.

And these all came from the ceremony. So the reception was awesome. It was fun. We enjoyed dancing. Didn't really eat the food, but everybody else loved the food.

So for that, I'm happy. The cookie bar was a huge success. Walking into the Imperial March got the reaction we wanted. The weather was glorious, all those things at the reception. But the memories that I will take to my grave that I don't think I'll ever forget how I felt in that moment, they all came from the ceremony itself. I had mentioned this before, but just for context, for those of you who hadn't heard it, one of the tough things that Bob and I have already navigated is that his father passed away relatively unexpectedly just a few weeks before the wedding. Obviously wanted his father to be there.

We had purchased purple ties to match our colors for all of the men in our families who were participating in the wedding. And that included our pastor, the one who forgot his name. That included our brothers. It included his sons who were standing up with him in the wedding, and it included his dad. Instead, because his dad couldn't be there, we got to a place where on the front, there was a front pew that was like a half pew, the very front row on each side.

And nobody else was sitting there. So we put a couple of photos of his dad along with the purple tie that his father was supposed to wear. And it was very emotional. We're really glad that we did that. Something else, though, that was hard for his entire family is that his father, who is a pastor as well as a longtime missionary, has done, oh gosh, dozens and dozens of trips to other countries.

In fact, has started drug rehab centers and orphanages in other countries, including Siberia. His father was supposed to pray and bless us at the wedding, obviously couldn't do that. We asked his mom and Bob initially thought that his mom would say no or that she would be too nervous. She did it. She agreed.

She did it. She was amazing. It was very emotional. Her voice cracked a little bit.

Bob cried. I think a lot of us were teary, but his mom was wonderful and sweet and kind and blessed us with a prayer at the wedding. And I'll never forget that because she came up and stood with us and we were able to kind of put our arms around her while she prayed. And that was something that I'll never forget.

That was one thing. Another thing that I'll never forget is a moment with my mom and my brother. So as I got down to the end of the aisle with my brother and the music was playing and you'll hear the music here in a second, got down to the end of the aisle, my mom and his mom then went up to light the candles, the candles that ultimately put wax all over my finger, but whatever.

They went up. They waited. So normally the moms will do that when they first walk up the aisle, when they entered the chapel, but I wanted to see it. And so they were called up again after I got down there and I'm standing at the end of the aisle with my brother and the pastor asked the moms to go and light the unity candle. They held hands.

It was really sweet. They held hands. They walked up to the candles.

They lit them. After his mom sat down, my mom came and stood next to me. So now it's my mom on my left side, we blinked arms, me in the middle, and then my brother on my right.

And we're linking arms because he walked me down the aisle. And the pastor says, who presents this bride to be married? This was something that was really important to my mom. My mom, she choked it out. She got very emotional. She said her brother and I do, but on do she choked up and couldn't quite get it out. So instead it came out her brother and I, but it was so special. It's a family situation that has been tough for the three of us.

We've navigated it. We've obviously had a lot of challenges and obstacles as every family does, but ultimately to have the two of them, my mom and my brother standing with me at the end, and to have my mom say to the pastor, her brother and I do, it was, yeah, it was an emotional moment and it was amazing. It was so special to have the two of them there, but to also think back really quickly to our life together and all the twists and turns and the challenges and the hard stretches where we were growing up and all that kind of stuff.

But it was all worth it to get to that point and have them on either side of me. Finally, and many of you have asked over and over because it had to be kept a secret until the very last second, the song that I chose to walk down the aisle, chose it 15 years ago and I kept it a secret from Bob the entire time. Not just that, most people in the chapel had no idea. My mom knew.

She tried to talk me out of it. After my nieces had already walked down the aisle, I was standing in the bride's room with the back. There were curtains. Now they weren't sheer curtains, but they weren't thick curtains.

So you could see my silhouette through them, but you could not actually see me until they opened. But before they opened, after everybody was already down the aisle and it was just me and my brother, this is what started playing. At last, my love has come along. The dramatic entrance was when she sings at last, the curtains were pulled back and there I was standing behind the curtains and the reaction Jay gasps, oh, that was the reaction and it was the entire chapel full of, oh, and I got the tears instantly, the smile on my face, I've seen a couple of photos grinning from ear to ear. My brother and I just really enjoyed that moment and after the coordinator straightened up my train, we walked and the song played and it was 90 seconds of the song that I had waited for 15 years and it was perfect. It was even better than I envisioned and I imagined it was absolutely perfect. So Etta James, thank you for your brilliance. Thank you for a song that will be forever part of my life.

It was awesome. So for those of you who wondered and waited and wanted to know the answer, I walked down the aisle to Etta James at last and Bob, yes, he cried the whole time down, he's staring. He keeps telling me, you look beautiful, you look beautiful, he's mouthing it the whole time. My friends told me they got whiplash looking from me to him to me to him to me to him. His reaction was also exactly what I needed.

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