Anyway! Here's the recap.
Bachelorette Party
Lani's Made of Honor lives in Canada so she waited until she could be here to have the Bachelorette Party. Lani wanted to go out to dinner and have cocktails after - she ended up choosing the Longhorn Steakhouse to be Bachelorette Central. Kara and I went together, which was very nice - I sometimes find group things like this strange because while the bride knows everyone, I most definitely don't, so it was good to have Kara by my side. :-)
I decided to sport a "double ponytail" - basically one ponytail on top of the other to make your hair look extra long. It was kind of cool!
There were 8 girls total and we ended up just sharing appetizers and a dessert. The bummer of the night was that I had such a hard time hearing conversations - my ears have been plugged for over a week because of this darn cold!
Kara and I were both in agreement that we didn't want to stay out too late so we said farewell after dinner and headed home. :-)
Rehearsal
The rehearsal was moved an hour earlier at the very very very last minute, so I spent my morning in a total frenzy trying to get a million things done. I had to pick up my dress from the tailor, get gas, pick up my prescription, buy a wedding card, get cash for their gift, do laundry, etc.
Speaking of gas.... check this out...
Gas for under $2!!!!!!! Can you believe it?!?!?! I love Costco.
Continuing on... their 3:00 rehearsal came before I knew it. We practiced walking down the aisle twice, and then boom - done. Their officiant wasn't able to make the rehearsal so it was short and sweet. Lani and Danny (the bride and groom) seemed pretty pleased. :-)
I headed straight to the rehearsal dinner afterwards. Andy met me there later - with the last minute time change he (along with a lot of other people) ended up not being able to make it to the dinner until later.
Lani's goal for her wedding was to fold 1,161 oragami cranes - 1,001 for good luck, and 160 to give as part of their favor's to their guests. When we got to the rehearsal dinner her mom dropped a stack of paper on our table - they were still 60 cranes short. Thanks to a Google tutorial, I taught myself to fold origami cranes and did so for about 2 and a half hours. Even Andy pitched in when he got there and folded quite a few himself.
When I went to bed on Saturday night I couldn't fall asleep because I just kept running through the steps to fold a crane in my head! Ugh. Turn off brain!!
Wedding
I had a hard time falling asleep the night before, and I ended up being woken up super early by Birdie. Luna (Will and Rose's dog) was dropped off for the day at our house at 6am. Andy had agreed to get up and take care of Luna so that I could sleep. Luna didn't even make a peep and Birdie instantly knew she was there.... she barked her little head off!!!! So much for sleeping in. While Birdie and Luna more or less were crazy dogs together, they did have a moment of suuuuuper cuteness that I managed to get a picture of.
How adorable is that?!?!?!?!?
Ok so back to the wedding. We started at 9am at the salon for hair, makeup, and changing into our dresses (except Lani). The hairdresser was actually the daughter of one of my coworkers at Job #1, which I thought was pretty cool.
I really liked the way she did my hair too - bonus!
Lani's Maid of Honor did our makeup, and I was really pleased with how that turned out too.
So I thought my head looked really pretty. :-) The dress however... well, it zipped. But boy did I feel uncomfortable in it. It showed every.single.thing.
My favorite part of the entire day happened at the salon. The flower girl (Lani's niece, Grace) decided to do her own makeup.
It was adorable, and I really wish they would have left her lipstick on for the whole day. :-)
With everyone dressed it was time to head to the venue. Lani's mom got us a limo to ride in - fancy pants!
We got to the venue an hour and a half early so we were able to walk around and check out the decor. Lani did a fall themed wedding that incorporated music notes, cranes, Pocahontas and Captain America, and duct taped flowers. It was certainly a personalized wedding!
With 30 minutes to go, we got Lani into her dress. Nerves were running high and there was a little stress over lacing up her corset back "just so," along with a missing bridesmaid bouquet (the photographer had it). But by 4:00 everyone was ready to go.
I missed a lot of pictures from this point on because my phone was stuck in our "getting ready room" and I wasn't able to get it until dinner. Boo!! Anyway, their ceremony was outside and for an October wedding, they hit the jackpot with weather. It was a gorgeous day. Lucky! The ceremony was without a doubt the shortest ceremony I've ever been to, but I know they wanted to get it over with asap, so it was exactly what they wanted! Then it was time for obligatory photos. And then finally....
I got to see this guy!
Andy really had my back through this whole wedding process. I really appreciated his support and encouragement, so it was nice to finally be done with wedding responsibilities and just get to hang out with him. He was even a good sport when I dragged him outside for a sunset picture (although you can't tell the sun is setting at all... bummer).
The best two things about her reception - 1) The food! Well done Casa Larga, everything was delicious. 2) The guests! Ok not all of them because there were a ton and I have no idea who most of them were, but Lani very generously invited a lot of our coworkers from Job #1, and since we like the same people, they were all coworkers I like! It was really fun to hang out with them at a non-work event. :-)
There you have it! Lani and Danny are now married. Despite shampooing my hair twice, I still feel like I have hairspray in my hair. My feel still hurt today from wearing heels all day yesterday. And that's where we stand today!!
In other news, I think I am finally off the hook for my Saturday shifts at Job #2. WOOHOO!!!!!! And while I have 3 community concerts and 1 family concert this week (yikes), Job #1 should be much calmer this time next week. And our transition to our new CEO has been pretty tame. Sigh. I think I might just about be able to breathe now. :-)
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