Rehearsal Surprises
So just as PC kept the secret about the Personal’s shower from me, I got to keep a secret of my own from him. Remember back in April we headed down to Kentucky to see these guys?
When we started planning our wedding we knew there was a good possibility that none of them would be at the wedding. As far as we knew Tim was to deploy for 6 months (May + 6 months = November) and Greg and Welch for 1 year (=2011). That made PC very sad but we proceeded on with our plans. Tim’s services over there were done in 2 1/2 months (he is a civilian contractor as well as Greg.) so he was home Mid-July to early August. That meant he had the opportunity to attend the wedding and he was planning on it.
Ok so there’s some of your back ground details.
Now… moving on to the secret…
During the month of August PC would talk to Tim and things that were being said had PC thinking that Greg was going to try and put in for leave time so he could be home for our wedding but he wasn’t 100% sure. Then Greg kept asking him questions such as when’s the wedding, etc so that really made PC curious. Then the week of August 23rd Greg sent me a message on G-talk saying that he wasn’t sure how good I was at keeping a secret and he hoped that he didn’t make a mistake by telling me this but… he was planning on putting in for leave so that he could be at the wedding. That made me so happy! Tim & Greg would be at the wedding for PC… how much better could that be? But I had to keep it a secret! {sigh} I hate keeping secrets from him but I was going to :). So then PC would say things to me during that week and I had to play dumb.
On Monday Aug 30th PC really suspected that Greg was coming home because he hadn’t been on G-talk for a while. So to help with the secret I emailed Greg:
Now I have to admit, getting the “talk” threw me off too but looking back I’m pretty sure it was to keep me from giving anything away with my facial expressions.
So let’s jump forward to the night of rehearsal….
PC had been bugging Tim about, When are you coming? Get here soon! etc because he misses those guys… They showed up at the church during rehearsal. When we started rehearsal I played both slide shows I did for the wedding so that all family got to see the shows in case they were all busy the next day.
So I’m not sure what caused me to look over my shoulder but I did, and when I did, I saw Greg. So I elbowed PC and told him to look over his shoulder. He looked at me and said what? Again I told him to look over his shoulder. He somewhat did but looked at my mom who was sitting right behind us and then said, What am I looking for? I just said, Look over your shoulder. A couple more times of that and he did one of those double take moments. He looked, re-looked, and jumped up and ran over to where Greg was sitting and tackled him in a bear hug. (Now you have to understand these 3 are like brothers). I was so happy right then I could hardly contain my excitement for PC and of course I got up and went to hug both of them!
I have nothing to say about this except I'm crying a little. Beautiful.
Thats amazing! How exciting for all of you! It just made your special day even more special!
OK… I'm in tears… AWESOME news for PC!
AWWWWWWW how sweet!!!
totally cute what an awesome surprise!!
That's awesome!
That is way cool!
I glad everyone got home safe and sound….
Wow!! What a great surprise!! xo
How awesome! I would never be able to keep that secret!
What an amazing friend, and amazing WIFE! You're great at keeping secrets—I on the otherhand, SUCK! That is such a cool surprise. Great story!