Cabo San Lucas = Rainy Wedding Day!! (March 6, 2010)

What's the deal with rainy weddings!?!?  Poor Erin - she planned a destination wedding in the location that only gets about 15 rainy days per year, and it pours on the one day she wants sun!!  Talk about unlucky.  I know there are many people out there who say rain on your wedding day is lucky, but I think it is just said to make brides feel better about their misfortune.  I know how it feels, it rained on our wedding day three and a half years ago!

You smile for the cameras, because you really are happy the day has finally arrived, but you hold back the tears of not being able to see the sun set on the mountains (at our wedding), or on the beach in Cabo San Lucas.  The day goes on and you just make the most of it.  Looking back, you still get upset the weather didn't cooperate and I don't know if you ever let it go...

So it rained in Cabo San Lucas on March 6, 2010, the day Erin Socha was set to marry Paul Leonard  (for technically the second time since they had to get the justice of the peace to do it in the States first).  Not only did it rain, it poured!  Everyone in Cabo said they've never seen it rain that bad.  So instead of a beautiful, beach-front/golf course backdrop wedding, we attended a beautiful golf club wedding.  

The bridge and groom were glowing, the surprise mariachis were amazing, and the entire celebration was a blast!  

I will remember that it rained that day, but I will also remember how much I enjoyed being part of the wonderful celebration between my friend and the man she loves.  I'm more saddened by the fact that not all of our "UVM girls" could be there than I am about the rain.  I can't speak for the bride, but it has been way too long since we have all been together!  The last time was for Michaela and Nils' wedding in September 2006.  

If we continue our trend, we won't all be together at the same time until 2011!!

  

On the note of UVMers, it was fun to hang out with our "twin UVM couple," Mike D and Georgiana, who like Colin and I, met at UVM, and got married at the UVM Catholic Center by Father Dan White years after leaving Burlington.  Here is our couples photo:

I wish Mr. & Mrs. Paul & Erin Leonard much happiness in their marriage and hope the people who said that rain on your wedding day means luck are correct!  It would mean a lifetime of happiness for me and Colin, Paul and Erin, and countless other couples!!