Wedding week + Wedding Weekend #2

I know it's getting a little old by now, but I really want to finish me week!
Tuesday, September 19: I went shopping for things to make a bachelorette veil with.

Wednesday, September 20: Met up with my wedding photographer to pick up my album, finally! (It was my fault for not getting my picture selections in sooner). I absolutly LOVE it. It's a "montage album." Basically, that means the pictures were sort of collaged or scrapbooked digitally. It's really very cool.

Thursday, September 21: Bachelorette party! Drove about 2 hours down, back to college town for the party for bride #2. There were 6 of us. We made tshirts to wear, each with different slogans on them (mine said "retired" since I'm already married). We also had a sort of dare list that we split into 2 teams to complete: team varsity (the 3 of us graduates, on the right) and team JV (the 3 girls who were still in college, on the left). Hanging out with the girls is always fun and something I don't get to do very often since I graduated. And, once again, I sat up all night chatting. This time, it was with my friend, Sherri, who was supposed to be in my wedding but couldn't get leave. She lives in CA and I hadn't seen her since we went wedding dress shopping about a year and a half ago.

Friday, September 22: Spent a lot of the afternoon with 2 of the JV girls helping one of them shop for a dress for the wedding. I left them around 3:30 and drove about 2 hours to Tampa to visit one of my best friends. She was my roommate my senior year of college and one of my bridesmaids. I hadn't seen her since my wedding, so I took advantage of the opportunity. We had a chill night, going to dinner and her little brother's high school football game. Then, we just went home and hung out in our PJ's.

Saturday, September 23: Got up and had brunch with my friend in Tampa before hitting the road for the wedding. It as about a 3 hour drive back across Florida. I was staying in the "bridesmaids room" since only 1 of them was going to be using it, and she's my girl Sherri. This place was phenomenal! They had temperpedic beds! I probably took 5 pictures of the hotel suite!
Anyhoo...wedding was at 5. Outside, almost beachfront. There was a lawn between the patio we were on and the beach. But, we could hear the ocean in the background and it was just lovely. Still pretty warm this time of year in FL, but luckily, we were pretty much shaded. She used a very interesting color combo: the maid of honor wore a fushia/bubblegum pink color and the other bridesmaids wore chocolate brown. The girls carried a hand-picked looking bouquet of fushia roses, orange roses, purple cornflower, purple delphennium, with lots of greenery. It was very pretty. It managed to be very summery and very fall, and very Florida all at the same time. Being on the first day of fall, it was very appropriate. She used larger versions for centerpieces for half the tables. The other half had 3 different height pillar candles encircled with a dense ring of fushia rose petals. The bride's dress was unique. It reminded me of the dress Richard Gere bought Julia Roberts in Runaway Bride, with the satin stripes around the skirt. It had no train, but she wore an 80" veil. She carried white callas. Very pretty. The cake was very classy looking. It was 4 tiers. Each tier had a 3" brown ribbon around the bottom and little pink dots on the top half. Their topper was sort of monogramed with S & K, the bride and groom's first initials. We had an absolutly DELICIOUS dinner and danced away.
Afterward, we all met up at a piano bar downstairs in the hotel I was staying in. Once they kicked us out, around 1:30, the crew staying in my room headed upstairs. I sat up, once more, all night, chatting with a guy who's a good friend of mine and my hubby. He and I have done that from time to time when I would visit my hubby at school. He was one of DH's roommates for 3 years in college. We have an interesting relationship. We can actually hash out disagreements without getting mad at each other and ultimatly agree to disagree and move on. I don't think I've ever met someone who didn't like him, unless they were around him only at parties when he'd been drinking (he got a bit out of hand with that in college, but he's doing better). Those of us who knew the sober and the drunk versions just tried to help control and contain him when he got out of hand. Anyway, we had a good long chat out on the balcony.
(blogger is once again fighting me on pics...hopefully tomorrow...)

Sunday, September 24: Drove back to my sister's Jax. She was going to watch the football game, but I decided to take a nap first. This was when my cold was really settling in. I told you I had really hit it hard. It caught up to me and I slept for about 4 hours. After I got up, I returned my mother-in-law's car and picked up dinner with my sis and my niece. Once again, I was in for a chill night, as I got sicker. I think Sunay night was the worst I was. I was like a NyQuil commercial. It was kinda funny actually.

Monday, September 25: I got up, showered and packed. My aunt picked me up with my grandmother. We picked my niece up at daycare before heading off to the airport. Then, it was homeward bound. The flight was kind of painful with my stuffy head. But the trip was easy enough and soon, my trip was over. Back home with my hubby and my kitty. I really had a great time and I'm so glad I got to do everything and see everyone. Hopefully it won't be too long before I see everyone again.