WEDDING DAY!!!

This is going to be a long long post but a good one!!

I have been waiting for this day for my sister for the last nine months. The minute she got engaged I started planning and planning!! Well let me just say that this by far exceeded all my expectations for her big day. It was absolutely perfect from the ceremony to the reception. Lets begin with the morning we woke up bright and early at the hotel and had breakfest. Then we all piled in my car and headed to all get our hair done. That took a couple of hours, then we headed to the church to unload the car. Around 12 we headed to the Lodge to get a look at the reception before hand, so we could have an idea of how things were coming. It already looked beautiful and wasn't even done yet.

It was now time to begin the process of getting all ready for the big event in a couple of hours. We got our make-up done and it was so relaxing and enjoyable!! Then everyone got in their dresses to begin pictures at 2:00 with the bride. We had to be careful though because Scott was not to see her until she walked down the aisle. Pictures went great and we got some good ones. I can't wait to see them when Brittany is done editing them. After pictures we did some with the groom and then the wedding party took some funny ones just to kill time!! Then we all went and waited for the big event to take place. The time went by minute by minute maybe it was beacause of how nervous I was or everyone was, but who knows really!!

5:00- We heard the music began and the grandmothers and mothers were being seated. So we all new it was almost time. They called all the bridesmaids to come get lined up, I gave my sister one big hug and said " I love you Sarabeth Kilgroe" It was the last time she would be a Kilgroe. As I was walking down the aisle I tried to hold back the tears and I was doing good until Scott looked at me and gave me the biggest smile and a wink and I lost it. He is amazing and I am so lucky to have a wonderful new brother!! Then it was the big moment Sarabeth has been waiting for her whole life........THE DOORS OPENED and their she was the MOST BEAUTIFUL BRIDE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. Scott's face was priceless. After Sarabeth walked down the aisle there was the giving of the bride and a few words from Sarabeth and Scott. Then Sarabeth and I did a special thing to honor the memory of my father, we lit a candle together standing infront of our amazing mother. It was so emotional but amazing. I know my dad would be so proud of Sarabeth and the amazing women she has become, and he would love Scott!!! The rest of the ceremony was very special and I loved standing next to my sister as she said her vows, watching her face and Scott's truly showed what love is.

Reception

The reception was held at the Vestavia Lodge. It was one of the most beautiful receptions I have ever been too. My Aunt Rae and Cousin Jeff and many many many others made this possible for my sister. Her theme was Rustic Antique look with color of green and purple. We rode to the reception in a Trolly it was awesome to be with the entire wedding party with the newly married couple. As we arrived we had to get lined up for the big enterance as we were each introduced as we walked in. We then watched the Bride and Groom have their first dance and it was beautiful. Next was the father/daughter dance!! I had been waiting to see this moment for a very long time because of the song. My sister really wanted to use the song "He Didn't Have To Be" by Brad Paisley. Well we had even better plans with this song. One of my good friends Lauren Taylor is pursuing or music career and she is one fantastic singer. Well we changed the words to make it fit my sister and step-dads relationship, and Lauren sang the song for us in her style so it sounded more like the song was about a daughter and step-father. It was absolutly amazing. There wasn't a dry eye in the crowd nor was the bride or father dry eyed. Then we partied on for the rest of the night!! We did the usual cake cuttings, toss of the bouquet, and garter. All of the Alpha Xi girls joined hands around the amazing bride and sang our song Boom Boom my Honey. I loved being a part of this moment for my sister and my mom was to....ha ha. At around 9:00 after most of the crowd had left we had Krystal Burgurs deliverd for a little midnight snack!! It was such a big hit and I could not tell you how many burgurs I had that night but they were surely delicious. Around 10:30 it was time for the wonderful couple to leave and head off to their night at the Wynfrey Hotel. It was the best wedding I have ever been to and thats not because it was my sister. Everything was just perfect and it was a great night. I can't believe it went by so fast!! But SB says she is gonna do it once every year, so lets hope sooo!!!

Here are some pictures of the night!!!

WEDDING EVENTS!!

July 29, 2011

Friday was a busy day for the family as it was the day before the BIG WEDDING!! I woke up late because I was up all night making last minute things for the wedding. I woke up and immediatly had to run around town and do a few quick errands before getting ready for the day.

At 11:30 we all headed to SBs Bridesmaids Luncheon at the Chocolate Biscuit. All her girls were there and most of our family made it for the big celebration. We had a three course meal that was absolutly delicious.

1. Potato Soup

2. Chicken Casserole, Broccoli Salad, and Fruit congeal salad.

3. Chocolate covered biscuits

After lunch Sb gave her bridesmaids, program attendants, scripture reader, videographer and flower girl all of the gifts she had for everyone.

Sarabeth and all her wonderful friends!!

She gave her Bridesmaids a sweet note, a thing to put your candles out with (forgot the correct name), a travel jewelry holder, and jewelry for the day!! She also gave me a soft pink towel wrap to wear on her day. She gave all the others beautiful wine stoppers with their innitials on them. And some american girl items for our cousin the flower girl.

We all had a great time and all of the hostesses did a fabulous job!!

Thanks Family!!

FAMILY!!

Hostesses

Sarabeth opening the special gift I gave her!!!

Rehearsal

We all met at the chuch at 5:15 to begin practice for the big day. We all had small talk before getting in our places. I made Sarabeth her practice bouquet out of all her bows from all her showers, for the rehearsal. I was very nervous about making it, because of course I had never made one before. But I must say I think I did a great job!!! We all did a great job and learned our parts for Saturday!!

Rehearsal Dinner!!!

I just want to begin by saying that Scott's parents did an incredible job with the dinner. It was absolutely beautiful!! The dinner was at a room at the Botanical Gardens. There was a wine and beer right as you walked up the stairs before entering the room that was so wonderfully decorated. As soon as I got there one of SBs other bridesmaids helped me set up for the big slide show. I had prepared two one she knew about that was of her and Scott growing up, friends, then them together. The other was a surprise it was my video speech since I don't like talking in front of people. I think my sister was very thankful for both. I had a lot of fun making both of them, it brought back so many wonderful memories!!! After both movies the floor was now open to speeches!! Everyone did a great job and we heard many entertaining stories!! Sarebeths best friend gave a speech in a poem!! I would love to get a copy of it and make a surprise gift for the both of them. The night was wonderful and everything came together just right. After dinner Sarabeth, Chris and I went and met some friends out to enjoy a drink before getting our rest for SARABETH's WEDDING DAY!!

This day could not have been any better!!!

1 More DAY!!

Making SIGNS with LaLa B.

One of my good friends Lauren Taylor is so talented in so many ways. I have asked her to help me with some great things for Sarabeth's wedding. And of course she said YES, because she is the best!!! I asked her to help me make some signs for the wedding, one that said Kilgroe/McVey wedding with an arrow to geive directions and the other was to hang as you entered the reception. It said MR. and MRS. Mcvey July 30,2011. Both signs turned out so cute and I am very excited about them. I love being crafty and so this was very fun to me, not a stressful job at all.

Here they are:

Mexican and Rap!!!

Dinner and A Night Out!!

We drove out to Moody after pictures to celebrate Scotts birthday at a Mexican restaurant that my parents have come to love in there new place. It was very yummy. After dinner I got to go see my little baby “DIXIE”, which I haven’t seen in 2 weeks. Loved on her some before heading to one of our friends homes who lives out in Moody also, we went and saw our friend Tami and visited with her for a little while. Then Brittany and I drove back to town and headed to Iron Horse to see Azis and play a little pool with some other good friend The Griffins!!

I had a great day and night with the ones I love!!

The Bride gets all dressed up!!

Sarabeth’s Bridal Portraits

Today Sarabeth had her trial run for hair and makeup before the big day next Saturday. And we were going to have her bridal portraits’ taken today as well since she already looked the part!! We met Brittany out at Ross Bridge to take a few pictures. We took some out in front of the entrance before driving over to the hotel to snap a few more. We wanted to take some inside of Ross Bridge, but apparently it is a 1500 fine if you are caught taking pictures inside the hotel so we decide not to try. We headed around back to the pool area to take some on this beautiful stairwell that leads down to the pool. We were just going to snap a few and hope that we didn’t get caught. We had success!! After Ross Bridge we headed over to a near by golf course to take some more pictures, that in my opinion are the best ones of the day. Sarabeth managed to sneak one of Scotts club out with out him knowing!! After to course we headed over to Vulcan to end the bridal secession. We had a great day and Sarabeth looked amazing!! I can’t believe she is getting married in 1 week….AHHHH

BUNCO @ Laurens!!

Bunco

July 21, 2011

I was asked to be a sub again for my friends bunco group tonight and was so excited to play with this group of girls again. I always have a blast when I am with them. They needed one more sub so I invited one of my good friends Lois to join us tonight. The theme of course was 4^th of July and Lauren did a great job with decorating and all the yummy food. I unfortunately didn’t win any money, but I still had a great time.

Thanks Lauren for inviting me!!

Lauren is Pregos!!! YAY!!

Lauren had great luck becasue of the little baby bump!!

One Last Fling before she ties the KNOT!!!

Sarabeth's Bachelorette Weekend

We are less than 2 weeks away from the big day that we have been waiting for since November. But this past weekend we took Sarabeth away to forget everything and just relax and enjoy a weekend of fun with 14 of the greatest friends ever.

I started planning this weekend back in early Spring with the help of some of her wonderful friends. I wanted to make sure this was a weekend to remember for Sarabeth and to always remember how much she is loved and cared for by so many friends.

Most of the girls headed down sounth Thursday afternoon to Ft. Walton, Fl. It was going to be one wild weekend and a stress free one at that for Sarabeth. We arrived around dinner time and immediately went to dinner at a place called fish lips it was delicious. I had grilled shrip, sweet potato fries, and a ceaser salad. We met 3 of the other girls for dinner that were already there for the wonderful weekend. We were all very tired after dinner that we went straight back to the condo to crash.

We woke up Friday morning to a overcast beach, but that wasn't going to stop us from having a day of fun on the beach. We stayed out on the beach all day and into early evening before heading in for the fun and exciting night ahead.

We all got ready and everyone came to our condo to begin the fun night. We ordered pizza and all settled in our seats for the wild night to begin. Before we got started with our night we had a surprise for Sb, one of our good friends Emily had designed a t-shirt for us all to wear that night at the party for the fabulous weekend. Sarabeth had no clue about the shirts so we all went into the back bedroom and put them on and came out in a parade of purple and surprised her. She was totally shocked and so excited. Then we all took our seats and started the show for the lingerie shower before heading out on the town. I surprised Sarabeth with her Honeymoon basket that she has been waiting to see. She loved it!!! Her basket included two towels that said Mr. and Mrs., Just Married Flip Flops, two cups with both of their initials, a sexy little bride tank, personalized picture frame, and some other items. Then we all played a game where she was given a basket of panties that we had each purchased to match our individual personality. This was a fun and tricky game, and we all had fun guessing and seeing the matched panties to fit everyone’s unique style. Then the presents started to be open and the games began. Sb got some sexy and shocking items. After she got done opening all the gifts we cleaned up the condo and got ready to head out on the town for the night.

We all headed out the door only to notice that it was a monsoon going on outside and all the roads were flooded. Do you think this was going to stop us, I don’t think so. We all piled into two cars and headed to the Electric Cowboy for the nights events. When we arrived the place was totally empty but we didn’t care we knew that we would bring the party wherever we would be. We began dancing the night away to great music and just enjoyed ourselves.

One of the best highlights of the night was the mechanical bull that was in the corner waiting to be taken on a ride. So of course we had to get some of the girls to take the challenge and ride the bull. One of the girls Cynthia volunteered to be the first one to ride and she did a great job and had so much fun. Next was defiantly going to be the bride, we weren’t going to leave without SB riding the bull. She did a great job and I am so proud of her for trying it even though she didn’t want to. I wanted to but knew there would be no way I would get up on in front of the crowed that surrounded the bull. Maybe if the place was totally empty I would have, but then again who knows. After many drink, laughs, dancing, and all around acting like fools we all piled back into the cars and headed back to the condos to go to sleep.

Saturday we all woke up talking about the previous nights events and couldn’t wait to get out on the beach for another relaxing day. We all gathered all of our STUFF and headed down to the beach to try and get some sun before the bad weather moved in again. Well we got about 30 min. before the rain came and we tried to wait it out but it just got worse and worse. We got all of our STUFF again and headed over to Emily’s condo for some lunch and to all just hang out and have a good time together. As the afternoon approached we all knew we had to be ready by 5 and with 8 girls in one room we knew we needed to get started early. So we all headed back and began the process to beauty.

I had scheduled a dolphin night cruise from 6-8 and then we were going to eat dinner and then have the BIG BACHELORETTE NIGHT!!! Well, my plans got ruined by the tropical depression that was going on in Destin/Ft. Walton that weekend. So instead we went straight to dinner at AJ’s and then headed over to the SWAMP for the night. There is no way I can describe our night, it was once in a lifetime experience. Because of the monsoon the wind and rain was the worst it has ever been and so we were all soaking wet. The place we were at parts of the roof and walls are open so water was coming in from every direction and we didn’t care. We just enjoyed our night and celebrated Sb and her wonderful marriage that is soon to be. We had so much fun and I couldn’t have asked for anything better. I hope my sister had the time of her life and enjoyed every moment from this weekend. I can’t believe my big sister is getting married. AHHHH!!!

Sunday morning we all woke up cleaned up the condo and headed back home to go back to reality and begin the last minute stressing.

Hope YOU had a BLAST SB!!! I love you so much!!!