Monday, March 24, 2008

Wedding of the Year

What an awesome weekend! For those who don't know, I got to be the matron of honor at my friend Alicia's amazing wedding in Austin. Since I haven't seen her in awhile (she lives in Chicago) I decided to fly there on Thursday night sans Greg so she and I could spend some quality time catching up. We had a blast! We did SO much: made signs for parking, stuffed gift bags, wrapped bridal party gifts, got take-out, ran errands, and even got to go to the mall for some cinnamon pretzel sticks and new clothes. I also got to see the couple practice their first dance which turned out to be so good--I couldn't believe they choreographed it themselves.

I was so nervous initially about leaving the kids with my in-laws for 3 nights (I had never left Lauren overnight before), however, the kids did great and I was comfortable the whole time. Yes, I called like 4 times a day, but overall I knew they would be well taken care of and quite spoiled with their grandparents!

Here are lots of pictures to document the occasion. Enjoy!

Alicia and me at the rehearsal. She looked like she walked out of a magazine the whole weekend.


Greg and me at the rehearsal.


Alicia got us these ultra soft, plush robes with our names embroidered on them as bridal party gifts. I love it, and since my previous robe has been way overused and is covered with makeup smears on the insides of both sleeves... I'm pretty excited. Anyway, great gift idea!


I love this dress. I swear I'm not being vain; I wanted a shot of the dress and one of my new (very) short haircut...


The first dance. I wish I had taken video; it really was so good!


Cuttin' the rug. No, I'm not pregnant--bad swing in the dress. :)


Me and Greg at the reception after partaking in cocktails and appetizers, a full buffet, personalized cupcakes and cookies, and two kinds of cake. Mmmmm.


The beautiful and happy couple. Congratulations!


Don't you want to get married all over again?

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

LOVE the dress, the hair, the shoes, and the tatas. Very nice. Did you do your own hair for the wedding? The style is great.

The robe IS a great idea for bridesmaids. Wish I had thought of that!

Jackie Sue said...

No, Rach, I had my hair done. It started out super curly and I had to ask her to start over! I felt bad, but ended up really happy with what she did. Randomly, I got the idea from a picture of Kelly Pickler... :)

Oh, and my tatas do NOT look like that normally. That dress really did wonders...

Amy said...

Let me just say you are a non-matronly matron of honor.

Are you creeped out by how much I love your blog? Ha!

Sara Neufeld said...

HELLO Cleavage!!! That dress is great! Love the new hair cut!

Rachel said...

The hair? Love it. The dress? LOVE IT!

I'm actually thinking of cuting my hair short as well...Kelli Pickler DOES have a lot of great hairstyles...

Thanks for stopping by my blog, by the way. And thanks for your prayers for the production. Great Success!

Ava said...

Love the pics! It was great to see you last week at Chick-a-Lay as Ava calls it. She has been talking about Noah non-stop.

Sandy said...

I'm so glad you had a wonderful time! I was thinking about you guys all weekend! :)

You look like one hot mama in that red dress and cute cute hair!!

lindsayloo said...

It DOES make me want to do my wedding all over again. All over again and completely different...
With personalized cupcakes, cute red swingy dresses, and plush robes as give-aways.

Amy's Blah, Blah, Blogging said...

1. The bride was beautiful!

2. Those were THE best bridesmaids gifts ever!

3. No, I hope I am never in a wedding again. (Although I know I will be as a couple of my bridesmaids have yet to get married and they will feel obligated to ask me and I will feel obligated to say yes! But, I will be honored and happy for them any way it happens!!) I loved my day and had a lot of fun, but don't want to do it again!

Anonymous said...

Love weddings, love the dress, the robes (wish I had thought of that), and what a beautiful couple!

Trisha said...

The red dress is so great. Looks like a wonderful wedding. Love your short hair.

Mary Craig said...

Your cute hair makes me want to cut mine! You look great!

Brooke'Lain said...

ohmyword, what a great bridesmaid gift idea!!!
um, LOVE your hair!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Your hair looks so cute that short.

And it should be illegal to look that good after 2 kids, one being pretty recent! :)