Getting Ready.....
We arrived back at the house to get ready for the main event. It was a little quiet when we got back to the house, I think we needed some naps (not me though), good thing Dad came through with some coffee. We had tons of food to put out for snacks. The best part was Andrea taking us through her Matron of Honor Survival kit, and boy there was nothing she wasn't prepared for in there!!! She had pins, bobbie pins, tissues, lip gloss for everyone, combs deodorant, mouth wash, tampons, you name it she had it, she was one prepared cookie for everything and for that I am very grateful for! She kept us all well organized and prepared.
The flowers arrived, I was so excited to see them, they were exactly as I had pictured they would be, they were beautiful, they were just what I wanted. We did have one weird incident with the florists assistant who delivered the flowers. She brought all the girls flowers in, and then asked us (and I quote) "How well do you know your neighbors? Because I had your mom's flowers and dad's boutonnière when I got here but I left the truck open and someone must have taken them." So strange, no one took the flowers. Andrea VERY quickly stepped in and resolved the situation, sent her on her way and called up the florist owner and demanded a resolution of how she was going to fix this. Needless to say Andrea made sure our flowers arrived to where they needed to be and they did and made sure I had nothing to worry about.
In the meantime I waited (patiently?) for our photographers arrival while the girls went and got their dresses on. I was so excited when the photographers arrived, it meant the show was ready to go on, time to get dressed in my beautiful gown and start taking pictures. I remember looking out the door and seeing them in the parking lot and was so excited standing outside the front door for them. With the arrival of the photographers they wasted no time and went right to work, a few quick impromptu shots of me and the girls downstairs and then they headed right up to the bedroom where I had everything waiting and lined up. Bridget and I had hung my dress up on the picture window. It looked so pretty just hanging there. I had all of my accessories out that they took pictures of, my earrings, necklace, garter, shoes with my blue I Do stickers on the bottom, even my blue I do underwear.
After they quickly got a ton of (great) shots it was finally time to put on my wedding gown. From the moment I stepped into it I knew it was my gown, it was beautiful and so perfect. My Mom and Bridget helped zipper me into my beautiful dress and it was time to take some pictures. I couldn't stop smiling the entire time, even when I was asked to take serious pictures, I couldn't stop smiling, I was just so happy. The photographer told me I was the happiest bride he had ever seen. We headed outside with all the girls to take pictures out there. We got these amazing pictures in the street right in front of the house with the georgeous backdrop of the trees behind us with all these amazing fall colors, you couldn't have picked a better canvas. After we had a blast hanging out in the street taking fun pictures, the photographers headed off to the church and we waited for the limo to arrive to take us to the ceremony.
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