life, willingly: wedding series #2 : rehearsal

friday, may 11--driving to brenahm and rehearsal

on friday morning, we all woke up at annie's house and started gathering our stuff. i had slept in annie's childhood room and by my bed was a wine glass with a straw in it (i slept in my white strips). classy bride!

we got everything together and then went back down to my parents house to start loading the cars. my mom drove us bridesmaids and i in the excursion, which was packed TO THE MAX. we had all of the decorations in there, all of the bridesmaids stuff, all my my moms stuff, and all of my stuff. we also had a cooler of beers and wine (and maybe a couple of waters), and all of the gifts from me to other people. needless to say, we had a full load.

matron of honor and i in the car on the way to brenham!

after we had everything packed up, we began the drive to brenham. we went straight to the brenham house bed and breakfast, checked in for the night, and then started getting ready for the rehearsal. i had booked the brenham house b&b as a gift to the bridesmaids, hostesses, my sisters, hope and mason, and oliver and my mom's for my last night as a single lady. i thought it would be fun for us all to stay together that night and wake up to a fabulous breakfast in the morning.

the house was just amazing. there were 5 rooms, each with a different theme...and you know i love themes! the house had two bedrooms downstairs and three up. the people that stayed at the house were: cacey and calyn (hostesses), gloria, melissa, annie, lyndee, and courtney (bridesmaids), my mom, my sister bry, hope and mason (jr bridesmaid and ring bearer), and me! i don't remember where everyone slept, but i do know i slept in the robins nest room with courtney.

welcome to the brenham house!
but...whos lacey?? ;)

brenham house wine break!

bride and bridesmaids on the staircase

after we got ready for the rehearsal and the dinner, we drove out to the antique rose emporium to start setting up some stuff for the wedding the next day and to have the rehearsal. as i mentioned in my last post, gloria and i had already organized and labeled a bunch of totes for the decor items, so once we unloaded them, we put them into piles according to where they would be at the wedding. my wedding planner, reema from something planned, met us at the rehearsal and helped us get organzied with the decor and random items i had brought.

then, it was time for the rehearsal! the groomsmen and oliver showed up, along with the groomsmen's wives. one of them, amber, had BUILT our lemonade & popcorn stand from scratch and was putting the finishing touches on it as we did the rehearsal. it was SO precious and absolutely a great personal touch for our wedding....thanks again amber!

we completed the rehearsal, me walking down the aisle with a bouquet of ribbons that my bridesmaids had saved and made from all of my showers. all of the girls ended up wearing similar jewel tones, which went very nicely together, and i wore a cream dress and blue-green belt from anthropologie.