Another wedding

I had the opportunity to be in my friend from elementary school's wedding a few weeks ago. The wedding was on Saturday afternoon on May 21st in the brides back yard with the reception in a church. The weather turned out to be perfect and the day was so much fun to be apart of! Much time and preperation went into it over the year long engagement and yet it seemed to fly by when the big day actually came around.
Chelsea, the bride, and I met in elementary school where we had the same teacher for a few years and played together lots at each others house and with our other friends. Then we split our ways when she moved, then i moved a few years later, but both only to other sides of the valley. We then got reacquainted a year ago through her fience and the boy that I was dating at the time who were best friends. That boy and I are NOT together any more and I firmly beleive the only reason we were suppose to date at that time (or ever) was so Chelsea and I could see each other again! Anyways, Chelsea and Casey are now married and I am so happy for them!

The preperation...

Step #1 The Bachelorette Party!

Dinner at Red Robin with the ladies.

The manager asked us what we were celebrating and we told him. Next thing we knew he brought us this slice of cake...for FREE! It was delicious!

Step #2 The Dress Rehearsal...

We had a BBQ before hand

The Bridesmaids

Standing around chatting

Step #3 The Hard work (Decorating)...

Before we went to the church to decorate a few of us girls went out to lunch, then after we went and got our nails done. I have never had mine done before so I went all out and got a manicure and a pedicure. LOVED the pedicure!

This is Kristina and her daughter Ella. I just love how she's watching so closely like "what are you doing?"

Then we got to the hard stuff that took us over 7 hours to do. We were all ready to be done by the end of that night!

So the boy that I dated who is best friends with the fience was a groomsmen in the wedding. It wasn't really awkward until we were decorating and he kept asking me really stupid questions! So...this is the look that he got several times! It's my "really??" look. And funny thing is every time I did it, everyone else laughed and he was the only that didn't get it.

Step #4 Get married...(Not me duh!)

This is my favorite picture of them I took

Love her!

The best picture of the whole day...I think at least

Step #5 Party...

The reception was the funnest I have ever been too! Chelsea's dad made the food that was SOO good! I didn't get any pictures of this but we had a blast dancing to the music her DJ played for us!

We had bubbles on all the tables. We used ours up before the little kids could take them.

Like I said it was a really fun day and Chelsea and Casey are now happily married.