The Today (pre)Show Wedding.

This past week was so surreal that:

1. It is impossible to put my experiences into one post. Thus it will be brought to you in installments. I know. lame. But all great literary works are written in long installments, so you are going to have to deal with it.
2. You aren't going to believe a single thing that I write, which is fine. I don't really believe it happened either.

So, as some of you know, my friends Melissa and Jeremy won the Today Show Wedding contest, which ultimately throws you a free wedding, live on TV in New York City. This wedding is a moderately big deal (and the coolest thing to happen to us, ever)  so all of my friends flew into the city to attend the wedding, which is.. AWESOME.

One of my best friends, Caitlin, was a bridesmaid, and flew in Tuesday night. I of course packed up my bags in Brooklyn and shamelessly hopped on the train to Manhattan to play pretend and take advantage of the free hotel room. There I was with the address, backpack, and sneakers walking past St. Patrick's. As I turned the corner, I saw a gorgeous building with twinkle lights in the trees. Yes, this is the Palace Hotel. My new residence for the next few days. Dang, I should have rethought my shoe selection.

I may have screamed like a school girl when I got to the room, and may have jumped on the bed. Maybe.

Wednesday morning I had to go to school, but this commute was so much more fun with all the men in suits and suitcases! After class, the rest of my girlfriends arrived. I met up with them at Crumbs. The four of us each picked out a cupcake, each a different flavor. We sat down had two bites of our cupcakes and then passed our cupcake to the girl on the right. We repeated this process until we were completely grossed out by our disregard of any kind of personal health code, but they all tasted so good! Totally worth it.

We then met up with the wedding party at Serendipity! First time at Serendipity, so I was particularly excited. My friend Tova is completely obsessed with the frozen hot chocolate, so we all got some to experience first hand how legit her obsession is.

 Final stop of the night. Back at the hotel... ehhemmm I mean the Palace. We all went down to the bar to sip some fancy cocktails and soak in the fabulous-ness surrounding us. We walk into the bar and are immediately surrounded by a sea of older "corporate looking" men. Even worse, no room for the fabulous wanna-be's. Then things took a turn for the better. A server pulled us over to a very public table that had previously had a "RESERVED" sign on it. Yessssssss. Sure we knew that the only reason we were sitting at this table was  due to the overwhelming male to female ratio in the bar that night, but who cares. We had a blast sipping our cocktails, then soon realized that being fabulous was very very expensive (20 bucks a drink expensive) we decided to call it a night. . . Tomorrow is the wedding day and we have to be up in 4 hours. greatness.

To be Continued