The Final Installment

Hats off to all of you who are still reading this crazy blog. I promise this is the last entry about our time in California!

So we have finally made it to the BIG DAY! 8/9/08.....Here comes the bride....

The girls glammed it up at a lovely suite with hair/make-up people doing their best to make 10 women beautiful. It literally took all morning. Let's just say I needed a little more help than most being that this belly is sure getting big and everyone else seemed like teeny-tiny 25 years olds. Oh wait, they were! :)









By the time they were done with us we all looked wedding ready and headed down to the limo waiting to take us to the wedding site. The wedding was outside in a national Park called Crystal Cove up on a hill that overlooked the ocean. Now I just have to say the site itself is nothing to write home about....dirt, tumblweed, a few wooden benches. Now I'm telling you this so you can appreciate the AMAZING transformation Jessie and Gail pulled off. I have never in my life seen a more spectacular overhaul of a wedding site. It was BEAUTIFUL! And let's face it, you just can't go wrong with the Pacific Ocean as your backdrop.







After looking at the pictures you have to think to yourself, "How?" I mean it's a park. There's no electricity; nowhere to go inside. And yet the chicken on my dinner plate was hot and there were twinkle lights and chandeliers in the tent. It was unbelievable! I realize generators were obviously brought in for the electricity but I'm just so impressed with the huge amount of effort this event took to pull off and how well it worked out. You guys should really go into business, Jessie and Gail!

Now I have to tell this little story because it made us laugh really hard. So, I'm not really sure why, but the wedding did not start on time. In fact, it was so late people were actually asking if there was a problem referring to the fact that several people thought either the bride or the groom had cold feet and perhaps there wasn't going to be a wedding. Now, this is only funny because we're talking about 2 people who can't keep their hands (or their lips) off each other no matter where they are. We had really good laugh over that one! Here are a few shots of us waiting to get the show on the road:









I didn't get many good shots of the reception after the wedding as the lighting wasn't great for taking photos once the sun went down, but I did get a few shots of the mariachi band that played during the dinner hour. They were FANTASTIC!!!




There was lots of dancing and fun had by all. And the happy couple has been in the Southern Caribbean on St. Lucia for the last week and a half dodging hurricanes thankfully. They get home to Ft. Worth on Thursday and then the real world hits! :) It was quite a weekend and a beautiful wedding. Gail, you can plan any event I ever have.....Martha Stewart can't hold a candle to you, girl! So glad we were there to see it!