Alright, where were we? Ah yes, on Friday I stayed up way too late with my sister and before I knew it my alarm was going off. I got up around 7, showered, and went to my salon to get my hair set. We were doing finger waves in my hair and to do them authentically you have to wet your hair, comb gel in it, plait and curl the hair, pin it and let it dry. It takes hours to dry so the solution was to pin my hair at 8 a.m. and come back to the salon that afternoon to finish the masterpiece :) Of course, this also meant that I had to run around town all day with no makeup on and my hair gelled (sp?) and pinned to my head–not my best look.

This picture doesn’t even do justice to how weird my hair looked.
The left side was totally slicked down to my head while the rest was blown out straight.

Let’s say a girl wants lots and lots of lemons at her wedding. How would she go about getting her hands on the tiny yellow suckers? Well luckily enough, her hubby-to-be works for Sysco and brought her a
In the weeks before the wedding whenever someone would ask me how everything was going to get done on the day of the wedding and I would jokingly say that I had a "Wedding Army" that would help me set everything up on Saturday morning. I had been saying that partly to make myself believe it would all really get done and partly to dodge the question. I had no idea the amount of support and number of people that would actually show up-my very own army. All of my bridesmaids were there, Shannon, Jacob’s family, my parents, and several of my aunts and uncles were all at my beck and call.
It was amazing. I know it sounds weird, but the hour everyone spent sweating and pulling my dream reception together on the morning of the wedding is one of my favorite parts of the entire day.
Since the boxes were already labeled and pre-packed by table, all we had to do was find the appropriate table, and set them up to look the picture on the outside of the box.
Before I knew it there were people setting up table arrangements, hanging the backdrop for the photobooth, stringing twine for the picture clothesline, hooking up our sound system, hanging tissue paper poufs, setting up the cake stands and tons of other things.
Everything came together so quickly that we finished almost an hour early. I had allotted two hours and wasn’t even sure if that would be enough time, and we ended up finishing just after 11. After months of sewing table runners and scouring flea markets to collect my beloved mason jars and milk glass vases, I couldn’t believe how painless the actual set-up had been.

Bridesmaids Christine and Tamara taking a break before our next adventure-lunch!
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ood shot of how crazy my hair looked. In public all day like that people. ALL Day.

Uh, you looked beautiful…pins and all! My day-of was so stressful…I wish I had taken it easier and enjoyed it more. Can’t wait for the next posts!