Saturday, February 6, 2010

Our Wedding Day

February 6, 2010 was the best day of my life!

I woke up with all of my wonderful best friends and we headed to Jimmy's Egg for breakfast. We decided to splurge on the food in case we didn't have time to eat for the rest of the day! We had tons of fun just sitting around chatting and having a LOT of coffee.

After breakfast we went back to the hotel and lazed around for a little bit. This was a wonderful relaxing morning...NO STRESS AT ALL :) After that I decided to hit the showers. I don't know if I had mentioned before that I decided to spray tan before the wedding...not the best idea I ever had! I mean, it looked fine, but I was just VERY dark...it didn't really look like me! So I soaked for a while and the color ended up being great...more of a glow instead of a full on TAN!!!!!

When we all got ready Heather, Berly, and I headed off to the mall for me to get my hair and makeup done. Berly's sweet sister Kathryn did my hair and she did an AMAZING job! I LOVED IT! After my hair I met Heather over a MAC to get my makeup done. Berly got her hair and makeup done by her sister while we were at MAC. I am not going to lie, I was a little nervous about my makeup. When I came to my trial I did not LOVE how it looked. So when I got there I asked her to tone it down a little and it ended up being PERFECT! We got done with all of this at about 3 and headed back to the hotel to get the other girls.

We made it to The Palace at about 4. IT WAS ALREADY A MAD HOUSE! My mom was frantically decorating the tables and setting up the candy bar and my sister-in-law's nanny even came to help set up all the candles! SO SWEET!!!!! I LOVED the time before the wedding getting to sit around with all my friends and chat and play! IT WAS SO RELAXING FOR ME! I don't know if I am just a total weirdo but I found NOTHING about my wedding day stressful! I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!

One of my favorite parts before the wedding was when my sweet little nephew Jett saw me and ran down the aisle and said "T...YOU ARE MARRIED!!!!!!!!" Hehehe! He is only 3and pretty much the cutest kid in the whole entire world.

Oh, I think I forgot to mention earlier how much I missed Darren before the wedding. We NEVER go that long during the day without talking...IT WAS REALLY HARD!!!!

Anyway! We took a few pictures before the wedding then I hid for pretty much the rest of the time.

And now for the big part!!!! So there was only one TINY mishap during the wedding. The guys went out a little late so my song was a LITTLE off on the timing...I mean, I made it out on time, but my bridesmaids had to basically RRRRUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNN down the aisle! Just a small glitch!

Pretty much everything after this is a blur. It all went by sooooo fast! I remember asking someone what time it was and I was so sad about how fast it was going! But, we all had a great time! I loved being out on the dance floor with all my friends. It is something I will honestly never forget! Darren and I's first dance went great...we talked pretty much the whole time because we were embarrassed about our dancing skills. :) My dance with my dad went much better than expected! I had to talk to him the ENTIRE time so he wouldn't listen to the song and start crying...I LOVE MY DADDY :)

At the end we did a farewell dance and headed to the car through all the bubbles. I LOVED THIS PART! The bubbles were so pretty and I was so surprised at how many people stayed until the end!

Finally we headed off to the hotel as husband and wife! I LOVE MY HUSBAND AND HAD THE MOST PERFECT WEDDING A GIRL COULD ASK FOR!

Here are the FEW pictures I have from the wedding...like...FEW!

Me and my BEAUTIFUL MOMMY

Mr. and Mrs. Lasley

Darren's sweet decorating

I LOVE CANDLES!

Friday, February 5, 2010

Rehearsal Dinner

We may have had the most amazing rehearsal dinner every! But, let me start our day off from the beginning. I had lots of things to do today. After I woke up I headed over to the nail salon to get a pedicure and get my nails done. I loved how relaxing this was BUT it was kind of hard to enjoy with so many things on my mind! After getting all "PRETTIFIED" I went back to my parent's house to get all the gifts together and get all my things packed up. THIS WOULD BE MY LAST TIME AT MY PARENT'S HOUSE!!!!!!!! Well I mean living there anyway!

After I got everything together I headed to Darren's to pack for the honeymoon. THIS WAS VERY STRESSFUL! After I left the house I would be stuck with what I packed and with what I forgot to pack! VERY SCARY!

At about 4:30 my BEAUTIFUL SWEET PERFECT friend Kelly came over. She flew ALL THE WAY FROM NEW YORK to come to our wedding! Since she was here I MADE her come to all of the wedding events :) I wanted to get as much time with her as I possibly could! So she came over early and saw our house and got ready with us. We were a little bit frantic trying to get last minute things together (Music for the rehearsal, packing, etc.)

At 6 we went to The Palace for the rehearsal. It was a little weird because we didn't get to rehearse in the actually building of the wedding because they were having an event. But we still got to practice non the less. We went through everything a couple of times (IT WAS MADNESS WITH ALL THE KIDS) and headed off to the dinner.

Let me just BRAG on my AMAZING mother-in-law (to be). She had the tables set up soooo beautifully and the food (which she made) was DELICIOUS! Everyone kept freaking out because she made it all (with help). We had ribs, chicken with mushrooms and cheese, brisket (my fave), cheesy potatoes, salad, okra salad, and TONS more! I literally could not stop eating. I apparently did not care if I fit in my wedding dress the next day!

After everyone ate we played our slide show. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it! I love hearing everyone laugh at Darren's younger pictures! No one laughed at mine because I was so stinking cute (NOT!). We were at the table with my siblings and my sister-in-law started CRYING! Oh Marnie! I think it got her when I had a picture in my cheer uniform in the slide show...she was my cheer coach!

After dinner McKenzie, Jessica, Berly, Heather, Kelly, and I all headed up to our rooms that Darren's mom got us. We stayed up FOREVER just talking and reminiscing. If you could have been a fly on the wall to listen to these conversations! HAHAHAHA! At about 12ish we decided to head off to bed. I took some NyQuil to help me sleep. Well I am pretty sure this had the reverse affect on me. I was LITERALLY bouncing off the walls keeping everyone awake. I was having a total giggle fest in my bed! Poor Berly! I think I finally drifted off at about 2!

Here are a few pictures from the rehearsal!

I LOVE HIM!!!!!! :)

Matron of Honor and Awesome Bow Bouquet!

Grandma and Grandpa Smith (our Preacher!)

PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!!!!

Oh JETT!


Sweet Cashie looking for trouble!

THE END :)