Getting ready and on the way from my house to my parent's house

So here are some shots of me finishing up getting ready and then leaving from my house to my parent's house for family photos:





You've seen one of these pictures before (from my story)! That's where it fit in the day. Technically the last picture is when I was at my parent's house as I got in the car to go to the church. (My mom's little SUV took us from my house to her house.)

Again, all pictures taken by Unveiled Photography.

The ladies getting dressed:

(Courtesy of Unveiled Photography)

Meanwhile, at the Best Man's house ...

Before lunch, they relaxed on Best Man Ryan's deck:

Then they got ready together (aw, isn't that cute? oops, I mean, isn't that manly?):



Wade looking "dapper" (if I do say so myself) just prior to the ceremony:

Again, all pictures taken by Unveiled Photography.

More getting ready pictures

Look who showed up! My day-of-coordinator was none other than Cyd!

While my lovelies iced the cake, my friend (who is Wade's cousin's spouse) started on my mom's make-up, then on my make-up:






(Courtesy: Unveiled Photography)

Dress Shots & Cake Shots!

First, the photography (Katie from Unveiled Photography) went to work taking dress shots.




My bridesmaids did their make-up, then I put them to work. I'm such a horrible bride: I actually put them to work. I hope they didn't mind too much.










Yes, they iced the cake. Wade and I baked that cake. Yes, you read that right: Wade and I baked our wedding cake the day before our wedding. In retrospect, we should have either made the bottom layer thicker, or raised the bottom layer on a pedestal or styrofoam cake layers, so it was the same height as the other layers. But oh well! (Actually, maybe we should have just paid for the cake to be baked. But we did save a lot of money, it looked okay, and the cake didn't taste like cardboard, like most wedding cakes. Plus we have a neat story!)
(Courtesy: Unveiled Photography)

Some more getting ready

I showed you some pictures at the hair salon, courtesy of Bridesmaid Crystal. Now, some pictures back at my house, getting ready with my bridesmaids and my mommy.


Above: I think that is Kristy doing Emily's make-up. Below: Kristy brought champagne for getting ready!


(Courtesy: Unveiled Photography)

Getting Ready: At the hair salon!

We arrived at the hair salon at 9am. The five of us were booked with two stylists.

Maid Of Honour Joce sitting in the sylist's chair:

Maid Of Honour Joce mid-style:

Bridesmaid Crystal getting styled:

Bridesmaid Kristy getting her hair styled:

My hair:

Aren't I the show off?!


There are no pictures of Bridesmaid Emily getting her hair styled. All the pictures of her ended up blurry. I think she moved everytime her picture was taken. Or maybe I don't have steady photo-taking hands. Either way, I didn't think it was fair to put up a blurry picture of her!

The first stylist finished Jocelyn, Emily and I in less time than the other stylist did Kristy and Crystal. A lot less - about 45 minutes. I wasn't impressed with how much longer the other stylist took. Maybe the first stylist was really fast, so the other one seemed slow? I don't know. Kristy had soft curls put in her hair, which would take longer than most of the rest of our styles. But Crystal just wanted her hair styled the way she normally wear her hair, but with a little more pizzaz (of course). The stylist didn't think Crystal's hair would work - she said at Crystal's length, the hair wouldn't stay "straight" but would flip out. Except Crystal normally wears her hair straight and it doesn't really flip out. Anyway, hanging out at the hair salon put our getting ready plan a little bit behind time (less than 30 minutes) - but not catch-up-able! I just would have liked that "relax" time that I'd built into getting ready. Alas, it was not to be!