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#timanie wedding

The day has come and gone. 6 days later, I’m still exhausted. I was so excited for the day, as I have been praying for it to come for many years.

After a night of very little sleep, we woke up bright and early to get ready for the day. As I’ve already mentioned, the hotel served a yummy breakfast (the pancake being the best part.) The morning was very easy going (at least on my end) and I didn’t feel rushed. Merri did a terrific job fixing my hair. I was very thankful for her help! I got a lot of compliments on it 🙂

It was a pretty hot day and we were taking pictures outside. I can’t wait to see what Billy got but here are some of the pictures I took that morning. I didn’t really grab my phone to take pictures too often. I just wanted to enjoy the day and not worry about taking too many. That’s what Billy was there for.

Then we made our way to the church for them to get family pictures. I felt cool, calm, and collected all day. Really, all day. Up until 1:20. We were sitting in the Bride’s room, waiting until the 1:30 wedding started. And all the sudden, nerves hit me in the face. I believe I even screamed. I also successfully got Maggi worked up at that point. However, she was blessed with a generous offer from Tim’s brother (who she walked down with.) He said “If you fall down, I’ll fall down too.” How kind! About the time we were going to walk through the doors, I took a nice, deep breath and all the nerves left. Let’s get the wedding on the road!

I don’t have any photographic proof of the wedding after this point. But trust me, they got married. And it was awesome. And I’m so happy for both of them. It was a beautiful wedding with tears and laughter, with Christ being the focus of it all.

I love you Tim and Stef! Thanks for letting me be a part of your special day!!

And for the last time in relation to the wedding—–

#timanie!!!

September 12, 2013

Blog, friends, wedding

Wedding Eve

Friday night was the rehearsal and dinner for the #timanie wedding. Because we had to be ready and in St. Charles for pictures the next morning, Scott and Amy generously put us up in a fancy hotel.

These pictures aren’t the best

It was very nice with a huge yummy breakfast. After we checked in, we headed to the rehearsal. About halfway there, Maggi starting panicking because she couldn’t find her phone, but was pretty positive she didn’t leave it in the hotel room. Long story short– we ended up going back to the hotel and found her phone in our former parking space. Not before Maggi had gone on a mad dash back to our room. With the phone retrieved, and on edge a bit from all that just happened, we thought we’d recover on the drive to the church. That probably could have happened had Maggi not seen a spider crawling in a cushion on the back of her mom’s seat. Let’s just say there was lots of screaming, jumping, napkin throwing, laughing, and even some tears.

There was a lot more laughter that continued through the evening.

It was a fun time shared with my closest friends. Thanks to Mayci for watching precious Evangeline!!!

You can just feel the excitement oozing from them that they had for the next day