Wedding Recap: Getting Ready

So, I've been promising you wedding recaps for what seems like forever and there are two reasons why I've yet to get to them. The first being that I wanted to make sure I had enough time to devote to putting them together. Our wedding was by far the most important day of my life thus far and I wanted to be sure to give it the time and attention it deserved when blogging about it. Second is that we literally just got our wedding photos back within the last month. Talk about taking forever right?! The wait was worth it though as we are so in love with our photos. I look at them and remember the joy that I felt in that day...having {tons of} family surrounding us and hearing all the happiness and well wishes they had for us. It was a magical day. One I won't ever forget. 

We'll start the recaps today and I'll try my best to supply you with one each Wednesday there after. Hump day is about to get a whole lot better hey? I certainly think so! I'm going to warn you that each of these posts is going to be TOTAL overload. We have over 1,000 photos and I just want to share them all! {Don't worry...I'll only share half a few of them}  

Wedding Recap: Getting Ready 

I woke early the morning of the wedding after a night of total rock solid sleep. {Which was probably due to the NyQuil I took} I had showered the night before in preparation and spent the night in a hotel with my MOH. When our alarms rang sometime around 6:30am {props to my girls for getting up that early!} we worked on setting up for the hair dressers and make up girls who arrived at 7am. My mom and sister and {now} sister in law joined us as well and we spent the next three hours getting lovely. A few of the groomsmen wives stopped by with some morning treats.  The photographers arrived sometime around 10am while we where finishing up hair and starting taking photos of us getting dressed. 

 

My dad and little brother stopped by for a bit too while we where getting ready. I helped dad with his tie and the photographer snapped one of my all time favorite photos from our wedding...my brother watching me have my dress laced up. Him and I are super close and to him getting married meant that Steve was taking me away and he'd never see me again. He was SO glad to hear that wasn't true! 

 While we got ready the guys where at the Golf Course finalizing details and getting themselves ready. I later learned that getting ready for them meant playing on the golf carts and enjoying a few swigs from their flasks. 

Boys will be boys!

  

Up next week? 

Wedding Recap: Our First Look