Our Beautiful Ride : She Went To The Chapel and She Got Married!

It seems just like yesterday my sister became engaged to Bret and here they are on their honeymoon already! They were married 9-29-12 in Osborne on a near perfect 70-degree day. They couldn't have asked for better weather or a prettier wedding ceremony and reception. After many months of planning, making decorations, guests lists, and dress shopping my sister is married and now Brad and I are no longer the newlyweds in our family.

Brad and I packed up Parker and headed to Osborne on Thursday morning. Once again he was a real trooper in the car - who's baby is this anyway?! We are so lucky! We made it to my parents house around lunch time and Mom was already in full wedding weekend mode. She is so organized and had everything that we needed to do planned out. I told her she should become a full time wedding planner - after planning 2 weddings she could really make a career out of it! Anyway, we started decorating the reception site later that afternoon and continued into most of Friday. Friday evening was the rehearsal in the church followed by a rehearsal dinner hosted by Bret's family. Since I knew it was going to be a long day on Saturday and Parker had already been thrown off his schedule, Brad and I went back to my parent's house a little early that night to hopefully get Parker to bed at a decent time.

Saturday morning began at 6am so we could get ready to leave the house by 7am to get our hair done. Megan chose one of my high school classmates to do our hair. She did a wonderful job and it was fun to get to hang out with her for awhile. I volunteered to get my hair done first so I could go back home and get Parker ready for the day because he was going to be Megan's ring-bearer!! My mom and sister found him a little black tuxedo onesie! So cute! When Megan asked me to be her maid of honor months ago I was delighted! But, being a maid of honor and having a 2 month old to take care of at the same time is a lot of work... so I was so lucky to have Brad's parents come for the day to help us with Parker. Brad would have done a great job taking care of him but he was an usher in the wedding so Parker got to spend some time with his grandparents! We started pictures around noon and the wedding was at 3:00 that afternoon. Parker did a great job during the wedding! He woke up a couple of times but stayed content just hanging out with Grandma. After the wedding they had a reception, with dinner at 5:30 and the dance at 8:00pm. Parker made it until about 7:00 or so and then he get really fussy. We took him home along with Brad's parents. He took a bottle and quickly fell asleep. Brad and I went back to the dance and got home around 12:30 to find Parker, Bev, and Darold all fast asleep. :-)

Sunday morning we had a brunch at my parent's house and then watched Meg and Bret open their gifts. They got so many neat things and will have a fun time when they return home from their trip putting everything away and trying out all of their new kitchen gadgets.

It was such a fun weekend and I wish Megan and Bret many years of happiness! Thanks for letting Brad, Parker, and I be such a big part of your special day!

It's tough work helping Aunt Meg decorate for her wedding!

The Bride

My Wonderful Mom!

Taking a break from decorating to have a chat with Grandma!

Parker and his Great Grandpa Mans. So sweet... I love this picture!

Lighting the unity candle.

Check out that dress... so pretty!

Cutting the cake...

.. and now posing for a picture!

Check out my cousin, he's all grown up! He's going to hurt me for saying this but I used to change his diapers and now he's holding my baby... hehe! I feel old! I tried getting him to change Parker's diaper but he wasn't too thrilled about that one!