Wedding behind the scenes......

First thing I should say is Ashley and Adam, Congratulations and I love you guys.

After 6 months of keeping away from ice cream, junk food, and not eating out as much, I cringed as I tried on my maid of honor dress last week PRAYING I didn't gain too much weight.. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the dress fit better now than it did when I first brought it home. Now that the wedding is over, I can "let myself go" somewhat.

We (Chris, Adam, Ashley, Sarah, Sara, Jo Beth, mom, dad, and I) arrived at 9:30 AM Friday to decorate. After decorating the "Wedding" church we headed to the "Reception" church to decorate there. After DAYS (okay maybe a couple hours) of picking out three crayons (making sure NO ONE got white or three similar colors) and tying them together, (You didn't think they bought the crayons that way did ya? LOL) we headed back to T. for the rehearsal.
The rehearsal dinner at Pizza King was fun, and it was nice to see people that I hadn't seen in a while. And I had getting acquainted with Adam's niece and nephew. After the rehearsal dinner wrapped up, we "girls" (guess I'm included as one of the girls) spent the night at Sarah's house.
First thing Ashley did was make me cry. She gave each girl a pair of earrings and a pin to wear in the wedding, 3 of us got Starbucks cards (the other girl works at Starbucks so she figured she'd prefer something else), and we each got a framed picture. Sarah and Sara both got pictures of the three of them together.... Ashley, Sara, and Sarah we're best friends in high school and she had pictures of the three of them together. So they both got the same picture, Jo Beth got a picture of her and Ashley during their college years, and I got a picture of her and I together at her college graduation.

After we dried tears we tried on our dresses and I practiced fixing Ashley's train. We eventually went to bed. Whether anyone actually slept I'll never know.

Sat morning we woke up at 7:00? Sarah's parents had gone to Panara Bread and brought back bagels for all of us. I found that very touching. After filling a cup with juice to take with me, I graciously thanked Sarah's parents for opening their home to us. And we were off to the church...

After 4 hours of styling hair, doing makeup, and TONS of laughing it was time for pictures...
After pictures..... Well... You know the rest. ;)

Special note: Chris, you are AWESOME and deserve so much credit!!!! I'm still shaking my head in wonder on how you were able to be at the church all day Friday to decorate, sit through rehearsal, attend the dinner, be up all night to care for a crying baby, be at the church at 7:30 AM, do hair for 4 hours STRAIGHT, sit through a wedding, and STILL tear stuff down afterwards.... you really are AMAZING!!!!! Superman and Spiderman can't hold a candle to you. You are my hero!!!!

So, now I'm off to fix and eat a HUGE bowl of strawberry and chocolate ice cream. Man, I missed ice cream.