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IM IN UR OCEAN. EATIN UR CARDZ.

So much for my 15 minutes

Earlier this week, I received a very interesting message in my YouTube inbox:

WEtv saw your wedding video and would love to give you a BRAND NEW WEDDING!

Hello Jill,

My name is Heather Teta and I’m a Casting Director for WEtv and Ish Entertainment. I’m currently casting lovely, deserving couples (like you!) who experienced some kind of unforeseen wedding mishap on their big day. This exciting new series will give these these couples a BRAND NEW WEDDING, all expenses paid, planned by an acclaimed wedding designer to the stars! When I came across the video of your dress getting caught in the escalator at your wedding, I just HAD to reach out to you. You SO deserve another day to celebrate your marriage without the dress stress!

This is not a wedding vendor expose…OR a show designed to belittle couples’ original wedding day memories. We just want to give great, loving couples the opportunity to having the wedding celebration of their dreams, especially since things didn’t go according to plan on the first try! We’re working with deserving couples who battled anything from weather related issues (power outages, rain on outdoor weddings), family drama (bad wedding toasts, family arguments/fights on the big day), illnesses (flu or food poisoning on the wedding day) or even bloopers (trips, falls, cake mishaps) that kept them from enjoying the wedding day they always dreamed of!

If you’re interested in learning more, please don’t hesitate to contact me! You can also visit our website at: www.IshTVCasting.com or at WEtv’s website: http://www.wetv.com/we-tv-casting.html#newweddingshow for more info. You’ll see that we’re primarily casting couples in the Los Angeles area but I’d love to work something out with you if you’re interested.

Thanks so much – talk to you soon!

Heather Teta

[contact info removed]

Okay, so . . . that’s exciting, right? Fly to LA, wear a pretty white dress, have another wedding that I don’t have to organize, see the behind the scenes of a TV show, etc. She didn’t specify that I needed to remarry the same person, but I’m assuming that’s part of the deal.

Anyway, I couldn’t do it. Our wedding was perfect even with the dress mishap. If I could go back and change it—take the stairs or have Nick hold the back—I wouldn’t. It’s a great story to tell! And if I’m being honest, I like people praising me for being cool as a cucumber about the whole thing.

The opportunity for a dream wedding do over should be given to the people with real disasters. Sick family, bad weather, injuries, drunken groomsmen making asses of themselves—all those things are more deserving than having my dinner delayed 10 minutes and a torn, greasy section of my dress that I couldn’t even see because it was behind me the entire night and is now stored in a hermetically sealed box in the closet of my mom’s house. Now, let’s say the dress was torn completely from my body and the pictures hadn’t yet been taken, then we’d be talking. But as it is, nothing they could do would hold a candle to the real thing.

I graciously declined this morning, in hopes that my 15 minutes of fame will recycle itself in another form. *sigh*

Belize – Friday 12/3

I woke up at 5:01 and was miserable. I was sore from trying to lie in a position that didn’t cause my knee to touch the blankets or the bed. My legs hadn’t been covered and I had a couple bad bug bites. One was on the back of my heal and it burned like a mother fucker (I don’t swear often in my blog, but there is no other way to describe it). I was itching it by rubbing it on the bed. It woke up Nick and he was all disgruntled. After that I was all hooty eyed and couldn’t fall asleep. Eventually I did, though, and I woke up again at 7:14, right on schedule for the trip.

I decided not to dive with everyone else. I wanted to have an additional way to unwind. It was the first time in nine days I was completely alone, and it was kind of nice. I hung out in the room awhile before lubing up with sunscreen and heading down to the pool to catch some rays. The temperature was perfect. Hot with a nice breeze to keep me cool. It made the pool feel like ice water, though, so I opted to walk to the bar instead of swim there. I ordered a piña colada and quesadillas, and by the time my food arrived, the others returned from their dives.

In the evening we headed to the dive shop. Rudy was barbecuing for everyone. The meal was delicious—fish, lobster, potatoes, and onions all in a pan together and grilled. Loidy, Martín, and some of the other guys from the dive shop were there, along with two of Rudy’s sons. Some of the others who dove throughout the week were there as well, and it was fun to be able to meet a few new people.

While we were in town, I headed to the pharmacy for some Neosporin and bandages for my knee. The lady working there said it looked infected, which only fed my paranoia that my leg will have to be amputated and fed to the sharks. Nick and Kristen both assured me that it looks fine to them. The skin around the wound is red and puffy, but I think that might just be irritation from the impact. I hope that’s the case, anyway. It’s right on top of my knee, too, so every time I move it gets more irritated.

Kristen, Crispine (one of the divers we met who is from LA), and I went to Manely’s for ice cream, then we stopped and looked at some jewelry. I ended up buying a couple things. We went back to the dive shop, but our husbands and the Hintze’s weren’t there. Rudy told us they went to catch the water taxi, so we said a quick goodbye and joined them.

Belize – Thursday 12/2

It rained again today. Fortunately when we spend all our time below the water, we don’t notice. Curtis, Kristen, Cindy, Nick, and I squeezed in the hot tub. We displaced a lot of water. Lunch consisted of leftover pizza from the night before and nachos! And coke. Nick got all protective over his bottle. He fell off the wagon hardcore and now he’s like a crazed sugar addict.

The rain let up in the evening and we stayed dry on our trip to town. We ate at Fido’s. Ted, Curtis, and I ordered the seafood platter. It was delicious. Kristen, Cindy, and I also ordered sushi from the restaurant upstairs. We ate a lot a ridiculous amount of food. Nick had two Cokes.

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