As I've seen done on Wedding Bee, I've decided to "name" my recaps. I thought "What Are You Doing New Years Eve" was my appropriate (though long) because it's the name of a song which, when I heard it, I thought it could be the anthem of our wedding. Here's a link to the original rendition of the song.
Anyway, I could give you a run down of all the little things that had to be done the day of the rehearsal. Some would probably think... shouldn't everything be pretty much done by then? Well, the answer is of course yes. Unfortunately for us, we were a bit too laid back about getting things done and had a number of last minute to-dos. One of my few wedding regrets was that I did not take the full week off from work before the wedding. I think that would have helped avoid a lot of our last minute stress.
Anyway, all that is to say that you won't see me in any rehearsal pictures until I'm actually walking down the aisle. In the meanwhile I was making sure programs were printed, collecting photos for our "wedding board", and stressing about getting to our rehearsal on time.
But while that was going on, our wedding guests who were coming in the day before had begun to arrive!
My amaing sister and MOH G relaxing on the bed as my sisters put together my (surprise) slide show!
My sister C's friend M who stayed with us for the holidays before the wedding and ended up becoming something of an honorary bridesmaid. She was the bartender at my bachelorette party, constantly focused for my family that there were things that still needed to be done, and was a rock of "hey everyone let's be relaxed" when we needed it most.
My beautiful sister C awaiting her rehearsal dinner make-up from friend M.
Perhaps one of the most important early guests was my Uncle B! This was only the 2nd time I had seen him in 9 years and it meant SO much to me that he came to the wedding. And not only did he come, but I think he had an awesome time :). Hopefully that will mean we'll be seeing a lot more of him in the future (like sometime before the next sister gets married!).
You can see that we were all VERY excited to have him there :).
And of course we had Mishka and his boys Best Man S (on the far right) and Senior Groomsman V (far left). These two groomsmen actually had crashed with us the night before after Mishka's bachelor party. I really enjoyed having them there. Mishka is so lucky to have men like S and V in his life. They are such great guys :). (They were also great program folders, though you can't tell that from this picture).
Sister C with my Aunt (and godmother) D. She was the one who picked up Uncle B from the airport and so of course she was coming along to the rehearsal to us.
You've probably noticed by now that a lot of our "getting ready" rehearsal pictures have been at my house and not at a church. "When are they heading to the church?" you might ask...
Well as I mentioned before, we had a lot of last minute things to do and I knew we weren't going to be able to get anything done after the rehearsal so it had to be done before. The groomsmen were folding and tying together our programs as soon as I sent them through the printer (in small batches to make sure they all turned out pretty). And friend M was trying to focus everyone that there was still work to be done in addition to the socializing.
Long story short, we left a little late for the rehearsal. It ended up not being too bad since we arrived at just about the same time as most of our other guests. But of course, upon arrival I was whisked off by our officiant and music minister to discuss final decisions on a few things.
Two families joining together to rehears our wedding!
Our ring bearer and his mom posing for the camera. He's my youngest cousin and was SO excited to be a part of our wedding. He even made a toast to that effect at the dinner later, but more on that in a bit ;).
And so with our bridal party and family mostly assembled we were ready to begin!
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