Some big ole honkin' oak pews.

For some reason I want to start all my blogs with "so....." lol

so....

oops.

on with the blog.

Sometime back in the black hole of making the first decisions about our wedding, I decided that I wanted to use pews instead of all chairs as seating at our wedding and that I wanted eclectic pews from all different places to create that vintage abandon cathedral feeling...great idea huh?!? I mean it's romanitc, rustic, unique, what could be better!

My darling, being his wonderful self, agreed my idea was all those things and so we made our first wedding purchase..four beautiful oak pews with red cushions...

did I mention that they are oak? Solid oak.

did I mention that oak is VERY heavy. like crazy heavy.

did I mention that my wedding is in a 100 year old courthouse. a courthouse that has two floors.

did I mention that the ceremony will be upstairs.

did I mention the pews are 15ft long.

oh yea...

did I mention the stairs go in two opposite directions.

like so....

notice how they go up and then turn and go up some more in the totally opposite direction.

but we (read Wyatt, I wasn't really made for super heavy lifting) didn't let this phase us. Wyatt got together a couple guys and my brother and dad came and they came up with a plan.

this was Brice's heavy lifting foot ware...

so they got them off the trailer

up the ramp.

up the first flight...

up on the window sill....

then they had to stand them straight up on end.

move them over, spin them around..

then lay them down and carry them up the other stairs onto the second floor.

success!

I'm so thankful that Wyatt is willing to do things like this for me! (and the muscles he has that enable him to do it aren't bad either;) )

We were also really thankful for everyone who helped!

so if you come to my wedding and your backside gets lucky enough to sit on one of these. you should feel honored.