2 years ago: Getting Ready

What with the recent holiday combined with the usual busy-ness of the summer, I've gotten a little behind in up-to-date postings. So I'm going to do my best to get things up to date around here. Starting with where I left off with our wedding posts (I know, I know it was 2 years ago and now a few weeks late, but whatever, it's my blog lol)

The morning started off with all the girls at my house. They all slept over, minus the moms and our flower girl (who is one of the cutest little girls I know!)

Although there was tons of food...I didn't realize until later that day (after I had downed a couple cocktails) that I hadn't eaten anything!

My bestie was not only the best Personal Attendant I couldn't asked for, she is also my favorite hair-magician :)

 These ladies were awesome and came out to my house to help all the girls get ready! Sooo convenient and helped to greatly minimize my stress!

I LOVED my make-up!

My beautiful mom

Lots of last minute beautify-ing going on

My beautiful sister!

Who was also my maid-of-honor

Abby, our flower girl. Isn't she adorable?!?

LOVE LOVE LOVE her dress. Her dad helped her pick it out (without me) and I couldn't have been happier! Side note: when Matt and I were choosing colors for our wedding, he had one request: no pink. Well technically he said no pink for the bridesmaids and groomsmen...but I never heard anything about the flower girl ;)

She had brought 2 options for her hair: a plain headband and a headband with a big, sparkly flower. After seeing that I had put a flower in my hair, she wanted to wear the flowered headband :)

Of course I HAD to go over the checklist one more time before we left. I was so paranoid about forgetting something.

And what were the guys doing this whole time??? They were at Matt's parents' house, down the road from the ceremony site, hanging out. It's so unfair that guys have less to do when getting ready!

Matt's dad loves card tricks, so he was their entertainment :)

Our niece, Lillie, was about 8 weeks old then. I forget how small she was!

Someone thought it would be funny to write out the itinterary that I had given them

Because I really wanted to capture each "getting ready" location one photographer went to each house and then met up again when we went to the ceremony location. What I didn't know, until we arrived at the ceremony location, was that the photographer (who was at the house with the guys) was now 8 months pregnant! She hadn't come to our engagement photos 3 months prior and no one mentioned she was pregnant! So there was one of our photographers, 8 months pregnant, on one of the hottest days of the summer walking around, squatting down, kneeling, and basically doing anything to get great photos!