Miss to Mrs: THE Girls

April 16, 2011
Venue: Northwest Forest - Cypress, TX

Our venue was on a 150 acre property in Cypress. Everything was on site: hotels, caterer, cakes, ceremony site, reception hall, etc. Best. Idea. Ever.

The night before, the boys got rooms in a hotel completely across property and us girls got rooms closer to where we had to get ready the next day. I will never forget the way I felt the morning of our wedding. I definitely had an extra pep in my step! I woke up next to all my closest girls: my sister-in-law (Julie), maid of honor (Julie) and my longest known friend (Angelica). We couldn't fit ALL 8 of us in one hotel room so Brooke, Ashley and Destiny were in the room across the hall and Kristen was on her way early that morning. We loaded up all the stuff onto carts and trekked it across property to the bridal house!

The bridal house was a little house tucked away on property reserved just for us girls the day of the wedding. There were 2 full size rooms, 2 bathrooms and even a little kitchen and porch...the cutest place for a bride and her girls to spend the day together! I could not have asked for better weather that day. Mid 80's and sunshiney. It was the perfect day to be a bride!

That morning, my Aunts Pam & Monica threw me thee cutest little bridal brunch. It was no shocker that they would absolutely deck the place out. ;)

(no makeup = sunglasses)

This was actually something I had written on my blog exactly one month before the wedding. I had originally written "One month from today will be the day I've dreamed of since I was a little girl" so on and so on...just something I thought was appropriate to write with only one month to go. Well...little did I know my sweet, sweet Aunt Monica found it on my blog, changed it to read "Today will be the day I've dreamed of since I was little girl" (followed with the rest of what I had written in the original one) and had it printed and framed for me. I pretty much lost it when I saw this. (To figure out what the hay I'm talkin' about, go here.)

 

Not that I'm biased or anything but tell me that's not THE cutest night light you ever did see?!

 

It wasn't long before our hairstylist arrived so we all piled in the bathroom one by one so Meagan could work her magic.Chick was le-git. You'll see.

No make-up. You're welcome.

My turn! (for hair...clearly not make-up)

Our make-up artist, Brian Champagne, arrived shortly
after and started beautifying us all!

(Who wouldn't want the last name "Champagne"???)

Check out that hair. Holy extensions.

 

Brooke, Mom, Kristen

Love this shot of her ;)

Brooke, Destiny, Julie (SIL)

I know...I was the bride...but these "Bridesmaid" socks that Destiny gave us at her wedding are my ABSOLUTE fave...I refused to wear anything BUT... (Note:I wore cowboy boots under my dress so socks were necessary.)

Daddy's wedding band was my something "old"

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Julie, Ashley, Destiny, Brooke, Julie, Kristen, Angelica

(& obvi...that's me in the white)

Time to get in that dress!!

...aaaaaand ACTION!

Love that you can see Beau's wedding band on Julie's (MOH) finger ;)

Everything I had ever imagined...

Oh-& my little Katie was hungover from the rehearsal dinner the night before. She had it coming out both ends and wasn't able to get in that last group shot so here's one of just the two of us.

Hungover and all...isn't she just gorgeous?!

What? You didn't know she flew all the way in from Ohio to be in my wedding. ;)

Before we knew it, it was time to go!

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Although this entire day flew by...I was shocked (SHOCKED!) by how completely calm I was during the whole process. I swear my mom thought I had popped a Xanax. (Well...except for when I walked over to the reception venue and saw the wrong centerpieces and a sweetheart table rather than a big head table like we had requested. Fortunately, they fixed it asap and all was right in the world again.) It's pretty out of the ordinary for me to be so chill but when you're so happy and beyond excited to see your groom, you just take the day as it comes. Everyone told me that the wedding day would go by faster than fast so I knew it was extremely important to cherish every little second.

I can honestly say I loved every. single. minute.

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Next up...the "I do's!"