Sara and Brandon were married on July 14th, and the wedding turned out fantastic. It was an amazing wedding and the bride looked amazingly beautiful, but I am kind of biased I have to admit. The wedding was held in a venue called Verandas in Manhattan Beach. It used to be a restaurant long ago called Orville and Wilbur's.
We rented a room at the Hyatt in El Segundo off of Rosecrans for the night before and the night of the wedding so we would be close to the venue when it was time to go. Sara spent the night with us the night before the wedding and obviously spent the wedding night with her new husband Brandon. Jan's boss Larry Murakami had paid for the bride and groom to have their wedding night at the Shade hotel in Manhattan Beach. It is a really nice hotel, very luxurious, and they had a fantastic time there.
We spent the day of the wedding getting ready in the hotel room and the girls had a make up artist and hairdresser come by the hotel room and fix them all up both my daughter and all of her bridesmaids. I was there but I was doing my best to stay out of the way, and just provide them with whatever they needed, lunch, coffee etc. I was rather surprised to find that I was getting very emotional during the day. It started off with me just mentioning how I was feeling about Sara getting a new last name. I started choking up and the girls ushered me out of the room really quick, they couldn't start crying or they would ruin their make up and then I would be to blame. Once again when Sara was getting in her wedding dress they decided they wanted to surprise me and had me go in the other room while she got her dress on. Then they opened the door with my little girl standing in front of me all beautiful in her wedding dress - I started to well up again and had to slam the door quickly in her face before I started getting all teary-eyed. Everybody thought it was quite hilarious.