{Not Quite} Wordless Wednesday: Wedding Behind-the-Scenes

Yes, I have more wedding photos today. I’m going to annoy you all with photos of my wedding for at least a month probably, so my apologies in advance!

Today’s photos were {almost all} taken by my eleven-year-old niece Kali of all of the behind-the-scenes action in our bridal suite!

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On the way to the wedding- poor Kali had to share her seat with my slip.

Wedding Makeup and Hair

Getting my hair & makeup done- &Shane is fascinated by it.

Bridesmaids Doing Hair

My bridesmaid Iffy doing my sister-in-law/bridesmaid Ashley’s hair

Junior Bridesmaid

Kali! &A giant mess of makeup & hair products & just about everything else.

Wedding Bouquets Hot Pink and White

The bouquets! The great big one is mine, the one on the far left was my toss bouquet & the four {one’s hidden} on the right were the bridesmaid bouquets.

Wedding Dress Photos

My dress getting it’s moment in the spotlight.

Bride and Son

Right before the wedding- saying goodbye to Shane before he had to go line up for the procession!

I’m still replaying moments from the wedding in my mind & have so many favorite moments to share with you when the professional photos come in. Thank you for all of your sweet comments so far, they’ve meant a lot! I’m sure you’re getting sick of these photos by now but I don’t think I ever will be!

{Not Quite} Wordless Wednesday: March Recap

March was easily one of the biggest months of my life. In addition to the biggest event of all {our wedding}, we also had family in town to celebrate, we celebrated Easter, and we had some fun everyday moments too. I skipped a few Wordless Wednesdays in March because I was so busy but I’m back & ready to make you wonder why I even attempt to classify these as Wordless.

Doctor's Office Play floor

I had to go to the doctor the week before the wedding because I had a sore throat that was making it hard to do anything- even breathe. Luckily it was just a cold or flu, and normally I wouldn’t even go to the doctor for something like that but with the wedding just days away, I didn’t want to risk it. The waiting room had this cool projector game that was interactive & Shane had a blast playing with it!

Pool Blue Invitation & Flower

I couldn’t find a good clutch to use for the wedding- I didn’t want something totally black but I didn’t want white either because I wanted to use it again. I found this black clutch at Charming Charlie & the blue flower at Payless of all places. I noticed afterwards that they matched our invitations perfectly!

Dad Giving Daughter Away

I don’t have our professional photos yet, but Justin’s aunt uploaded some to Facebook so I’m sharing just a couple of my favorites. In this photo, my Dad is giving me away to Justin {tear} & you can see Shane looking oh-so-dapper in his tuxedo behind the pillar.

You May Kiss the Bride

“You may kiss the bride!”

First Dance

Our first dance- we chose Boyce Avenue’s cover of “Teenage Dream” since we have been together since we were 15.

Blue wedding reception

I love this picture of my friends & us! My friends are awesome & Justin is just so handsome. I’m a lucky girl.

Honeymoon

We took a selfie in the hotel room- we stayed in a suite at the Aria the night of the wedding & the next night.

View from Aria Las Vegas Suite

&This was our view!

Aria Fountain Fire Water

I was also pretty fascinated with this water fountain that looked like fire.

Dyeing Easter Eggs

We didn’t do much for Easter this year since our wedding was just one week before Easter & we had a couple of days of mini-honeymoon in there as well. We did dye eggs the day before Easter though & Shane loved it! He had a little mishap with taking an egg out of the dye with his hand & he looked like the wicked witch for a little bit but it washed off. &He loved putting stickers on the eggs!

Camera

The Easter Bunny was very generous this year {&gave Shane way too much candy}- one of Shane’s favorite toys that he got is this pretend Jake & the Never Land Pirates camera. It doesn’t take real pictures & instead shows Jake images, but he still makes Daddy & I pose for every shot.

For those who have been asking, I’m sure I’ll have a lot more wedding pictures soon! &Thank you to everyone who left well wishes and congrats on my post the day of the wedding, I read every comment & was very touched by each one!

What did you do this month?

{Not Quite} Wordless Wednesday: February Recap!

I had a lot of fun with my January recap post so I decided to make it a monthly thing! {Until I completely forget in a few months, that is.} This month has been the “calm before the storm”- the wedding is now less than 4 weeks away and so since things are about to get crazy, we really took time to enjoy February!

In no particular order:

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On a whim, after picking up my shoes from David’s Bridal, we decided to stop in at our favorite pizza place, Grimaldi’s!

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Shane &I had a lunch date at McDonald’s, where he was super excited to get a “robot”.

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After that, he reminded me why it’s easier {but much less interesting} to clothes shop alone when he acted like a crazy person in the dressing rooms.

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We were without power for an hour & a half in the middle of the night due to equipment failure. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the sudden quiet from the fans turning off hadn’t woken Shane, who was completely terrified of the dark. Since the outage affected 13,000 people in our area, that meant even the street lights went dark- we had to rely on our phones for flashlights until we remembered that we owned real ones {power outages almost never occur here, it was a new thing for us}. I even had to help Justin leave for work- his car was in the garage, which he had to manually open since we didn’t have power. Luckily power was restored & Shane went to sleep.  I only got four hours of sleep that night.

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We got our marriage license!

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Shane received his very first Valentine, from a girl at soccer {don’t get any ideas, she gave them to the whole class}.

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We went to Disneyland to make some family memories- look for more on our trip this week!

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First cherry blossoms

&The other day, we got our very first cherry blossoms for the year! If you’ve been around here for awhile, you know that means I’m about to start bombarding you with photos of them- they’re my favorite flowers & they only last for a few weeks so I have to enjoy them while they last!

What was your favorite memory this month?

{Not Quite} Wordless Wednesday: Bridal Shower!

On the 9th, one of my good friends {and guest reviewer} Lexi threw me a bridal shower! It was so much fun & since she’s a chef, the food was amazing! I haven’t gotten pictures back from anyone yet & I didn’t take many myself since I was busy but I do have a few!

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Before the shower, a team came to do my hair & makeup. I hired them for my wedding & we needed to do a trial, but I didn’t want to pay for a trial & then sit at home all day, so I decided to do it the day of the shower!

Bridal shower hair

My hairstyle was INTENSE- it took 47 bobbi pins to keep that up! {It doesn’t help that I have insanely thick hair- and lots of it!}

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Like I said, the food was amazing- Lexi made her famous gazpacho, chicken marsala, pasta, some snacks and one of the best cakes I’ve ever tasted! It had coconut & strawberry & it was so, so good.

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We played fun games, including one where everyone had to make a wedding cake out of Play-doh! I was supposed to pick the winner but they were all so perfect & I loved everyone at the shower so much that I made everyone vote. We also played the game where you get points for all of the random objects in your purse & per usual, I won that one {I have a Mary Poppins bag} but I forfeited since I was the bride & my soon-to-be Mother-in-Law won! I somehow had 11 granola bars in my purse. I’m thinking Shane had something to do with that.

Guests

I got a couple of {super blurry} photos of my wonderful friends & family who attended- my Mom & Justin’s Mom, my bridesmaid Alyssa {“Iffy”}, my cousin & her daughter, my Great Aunt, and a few of my awesome “Mommy friends”.

I had such an amazing time & I so appreciated everyone taking the time to come celebrate- and a special thanks to Lexi for throwing such a great shower!

{Not Quite} Wordless Wednesday: Only In Vegas…

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Only in Vegas can you pull into a lane behind a baby pink retro Chrysler with “56Elvis” plates- and an actual Elvis impersonator inside! {Look closely, you can see the white studded suit with the popped collar!}

Best part? This was on the way to Shane’s soccer class- one of the last things most imagine doing in Vegas.

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