Me and Brandon set a date. July 10th. I wake up and look at the date, which is July 10th. I miss Brandon next to me when I wake up. The wedding doesn't start until 4 pm, so I have time. 30 minutes after I wake up, I hear a knock on my door and my mom and bridesmates all rush in with their dresses and bags of make up and curling irons. I'm standing in a t shirt and pants with polar bears all over them, eating Lucky Charms, and watching cartoons. It's only 10:30 in the morning, why are they here? "Uh hi everyone. Why are you here so early?" I manage to say after they make themselves at home. "Well," my mom starts, "we wanted to make sure you would be readyfor today. Clearly we came over at a perfect time." She frowns at what I'm wearing and watching. "Now," she continues, "go take a shower. You have a big day today." I obey and go to take a shower. Right when I get out, someone pulls me into the kitchen. Barbara is my Maid Of Honor, and a few friends are my bridesmates. I know Brandon has my brothers and his brother as his groommens, and Andrew as his Best Man. My mom and friends do my hair and start my make up when someone else knocks on the door. Brandons mom. Our moms start talking as I go to get my dress. We go to the hall to get dressed the rest of the way. I find my dad and ask him to get me some water. He gets me some and looks at me with tears in his eyes and say, "the last time you will be a Johnsen." He walks away before he starts crying and my brothers walk up. They all hug me and say they are happy for me. They leave and I hear everyone starting to come into the hall to sit down. My I look at the clock and it is three so I start to get into my dress. We sit there and talk for a little. My mom and Brandon's mom walk out so they don't cry. I'm totally fine and sit there, waiting for four to go. I start to get nervous. It hits four. My bridesmates all go out. I can see the head of Brandon I start to see his face. He looks nervous too. I give a sigh of relief and grab my dads arm. He talks to me the whole way down. Brandon looks extremely happy when he sees me. My dad gives me to Brandon and hugs me, then Brandon. My dad leans in and says, "I just wanted to say, welcome to the family. Son." Brandon smiles and takes me up to the alter. The ceremony lasts about 45 minutes. Everyone congratulates us as we stand there saying how happy we are for everyone to be there. All of Brandon's teammates show up. Corey shows up first on the team, "Congrats Shots and Brandon." And he hugs us. Everyone is after Corey. Jonathan, both Patrick's, Bryan, Brent, Duncan, everyone else. They don't know how my family is during the reception. Everything is going fine, then the open bar comes to life. My entire family surrounds it like moths to light. It is about two hours after the ceremony and my entire family is drunk and dancing with the team. The song Paradise By The Dashboard Lights by Meatloaf comes on. I forgot to tell Brandon about that. My family gets in 2 lines of guys and girls. I'm in the middle of the girls line with my cousin Keith across from me. Everyone looks confused except for the rest if my family. We finish the song and I look to see half of the team in the guy line. Me and Brandon get to the middle of the dance floor and slow dance. My dad comes up and takes me. We dance to Just Fish in by Trace Adkins. After the song is over, my dad hugs me and hands me back to Brandon. We go up to every table and say thanks for coming and take pictures. That's when another family tradition comes on. Sweet Caroline. I run to the center with Brandon behind me. We lock arms with anyone close and sing. As we go around in this circle we keep getting closer. I look next to me to see Jonathan and my cousin Rebecca next to him. Someone pushed me and Brandon in the center of everyone. After Sweet Caroline, American Pie comes on. We are still in a giant circle, this time next to me is Corey and next to Brandon is Patrick Kane. At the "the day the music died part" we all scream as loud as we can "IT FUCKIN DIED!" and return back to singing. I feel like I'm weightless and look down to see Jonathan and Corey picking me up. Brandon comes and takes me by himself, puts me down and kisses me. We had such a fun night. Everyone went home with raspy voices and slurring. After the last person leaves, Brandon goes to pay the man. Jonathan and Patrick come back and I realize they are drunk as shit. Me and Brandon help them into the limo with us. They tell the limo driver to drive around for a while. So we do. We go into downtown and me and Brandon stand up and stand outside the sunroof, hands up with our rings showing. Brandon grabs me and kisses me. We see a sign at the UC. "CONGRATS TO MR. AND MRS. SAAD!" we finally get back to our hotel room. We get Jonathan to his and Patrick to his. They are across from each other. Brandon picks me up and take me to ours. Once we get inside, he throws me on the bed and kisses me. He slowly starts unzipping my dress. We get it off and I take off his suit. He throws the cover over us and goes to town. He doesn't use a condom because we don't care if I get pregnant now that were married. He slides down next to me when he is done. It is about four in the morning. We both fall asleep almost instantly. We wake up around noon. We go get dressed and go to lunch with Jonathan, Patrick, Corey, Barbara, and Andrew. Jonathan and Patrick are still extremely hung over. Corey seems fine. All three of them are wearing sunglasses even though we are inside. They just order coffee. The rest of us order actual food. Me and Barbara go to the bathroom. She asks me how my night went. "Well," I start to say and then I realize I'm smiling like and idiot, "it went fine. Shit, perfect. I still can't believe I got married last night to the greatest man on earth." My first day as Mrs. Saad and so far, so good.