wedding series #1 : two days before wedding

wednesday, may 9

tuesday, may 8 was my last day of work for a week and a half, so on wednesday i had planned to get stuff together, get organized, pack, etc.  well, i 'forgot' that i had basically every single decor item for the wedding, and on wednesday night i started having a slight panic attack at the amount of things that i needed to pack and organize.  gloria, my matron of honor, came over that night (thank GOODNESS) and helped me organize.  we put all of the decor items for the wedding in labeled totes according to where they would be put at the wedding: lemonade stand, brides house, sign in table/gift table, chapel, dessert bar, dancing area, or thank you table.  it was a TON of stuff and took both my car and olivers truck full to get all of it to my parents house.

thursday, may 10

on thursday morning, i woke up and started finishing up my packing. since we were going from our house in pearland to my parents house in cypress, then out to brenham for the wedding, and THEN straight to the airport for our honeymoon, i had to pack and bring everything i thought i would need.  i packed a bag of wedding stuff i needed, ie, makeup, hair stuff, all my clothes, jewelry, etc.  then i had a DAY OF bag that had the underwear i wanted, my veil, shoes, wedding jewelry, and all that.  it had to be very organized to get everything there that i needed.

after i finished packing and loading my car, i headed over to my moms house to meet up with her and my cousin pam in from italy, along with my sister jennifer, for pre-wedding mani-pedi.  we went to a place over in cypress by my moms house, and although its not the nicest salon ever, they are convienently located next to a mexican food place where you can get margaritas and chips and salsa to go.  jennifer walked down for me and got me some while i got pampered.  it was fabulous.

at the salon, gloria came and met us also.  my mom and pam had to get to the airport to pick up my uncle jim and mohamed from the airport, so gloria stayed with me and we finished up our nails.  i got solar nails with shellac OVER them, and shellac on my toes also.  (i tend to pick off my nailpolish, so i needed them to be sturdy!)

that night, all the bridesmaids started to trickle in to my parents house and my dad made a big pot of food.  i cant remember what it was!  then we just hung out with my cousin pam from italy, my uncles jim and mohamed from tunisia, my sister jennifer, my mom and dad, and bridesmaids annie, gloria, courtney, melissa, and lyndee (from lubbock).  since we had so many people staying at the house, my dad brought their trailer in and parked it in our driveway.  not going to lie, it kind of looked a little like MTV was taping engaged and underage at our house!  (ie, trashy...) but we had a great time.  jennifer and gloria tried to spray tan me in the garage, but of COURSE that was the night that the spray tan machine chose to break.  my dad even tried to fix it for me, to no avail.

later on that night, the bridesmaids and i decided that we didnt want to all sleep on the couch, so we tromped down the street to annie's parents house to sleep over there.  gloria conked out but i woke her up and made her spray tan me in the bathtub with the over the counter spray tanning stuff.



once we all finally fell asleep (there were some shennanigans that don't need to be talked about here), it was time to get up and get ready for rehearsal dinner friday! 

until next time,

kristin