Our Wedding – The Big Day Leading Up to the Ceremony

In case you missed my two posts last week, our nine year anniversary is just around the corner, so I am finally taking the time to recap our wedding on the blog since I didn’t blog back then.  So far I have recapped our rehearsal dinner and all of the wedding planning and details, and today’s post is all about the big day leading up to the ceremony… a little behind the scenes post, if you will. 

Our wedding ceremony wasn’t until 7:30 in the evening, so we had a lot of time to kill until then.  I slept like a rock the night before, and I was able to get up leisurely, have a little bit of breakfast, and get showered before heading to my hair appointment.  My bridesmaids and my mom and I all met at the church around noon, and we set up shop in one of the meeting rooms.  It was an explosion of dresses, bouquets, makeup, hair brushes, and other beauty items.  

Brian and the groomsmen were all camped out in another set of meeting rooms on the other side of the church, so we didn’t have to worry about him and I running into one another before our pictures.  And the boys didn’t have to worry about doing makeup and hair or any of that, so we let them have the room with the pool table and the TV for football watching.  ;o)

One of my girls was very wise and she brought champs and OJ for us to make mimosas, so we sipped on those while putting on our makeup and getting ready.  All of my aunts and cousins and grandmothers (and some of the groomsmen, for that matter) were constantly coming in and out, and there was a lot of goofing off and dancing all day.  

Once we were all ready, my photographer, Julie Hedges, came in to take a few behind the scenes shots, and then it was time to take all of our professional photos which I will share in another post.

We took pictures for a couple of hours, and then it was back to the meeting rooms to freshen up and get ready for the actual ceremony.  By that time, I hadn’t eaten very much all day so I was starving.  I have always had a nervous stomach and when I have something big going on like this, I tend to do better when I don’t eat.  However, I had eaten so little that day, that I was starting to feel a bit faint, so my uncle came to my rescue and he ran to the KFC just around the block from the church to get some buckets of popcorn chicken.  I don’t ever even eat KFC, but that was the best freaking chicken I had ever had because I was so hungry!  Haha.  And my girls thought it would be hilarious to take pics of me eating it in my wedding dress (since I was literally just minutes from walking down the aisle), so someone snapped this picture.  #Classic and #Classy

Those hours leading up to the ceremony that I spent with all of my favorite ladies were just priceless, and they are hours that I will cherish forever.  It was the perfect way to spend the day.  

*Linking up with Jessi's Design and Going the Distance for What's Hap-"Pinning" Wednesday.