becca and russ

the week prior to june 9, 2012 was a very big week for my little sissy.  it was the week before she became a mrs.  the thursday before i headed down to iop to join my sista and some of her closest friends to finish up the last minute preparations for her big day and of course just have a little girl time before she got hitched!

the beautiful sunset off the back porch on thursday before the big events of the weekend!

on friday morning i had some maid of honor duties that had to be filled.  i had to go pick up the programs and i had to take becca's ring to get it cleaned so it would be all beautiful for the pictures.  after i fulfilled those duties i headed to the salon to meet the bride.to.be and her bridesmaids for manis and pedis.

friday night was the rehearsal and then a gorgeous rehearsal dinner that russ' parents put on for all of the bridal party and our giant families :)

the beautiful bride.to.be with her fun ribbon bouquet i made her from some ribbons that were on presents she had opened from her bridal showers!

sweet lillie and i waiting for our turn to walk down the isle.

our now family of 5 :)

gair and i at the rehearsal dinner! it was such a beautiful location. the rehearsal dinner was at the cooper river room that is located with a beautiful view of the cooper river bridge and obviously an amazing sunset :)

almost all of the bridesmaids. i think lo had just left right before we took this picture.  pretty sure this is an instagram(ed) picture which is why the coloring is weird.

after we left the rehearsal dinner we headed back to mom and dads house for a girls only slumber party :) we had to make sure becca got her beauty sleep since we all know how late she likes to stay up!

saturday morning we all got up and ate breakfast and just kinda took it easy.  thankfully we had everything done and ready for the wedding and all we had to do for the day was get ourselves ready and finish packing becca for the honeymoon :)  we had a very relaxing day listening to some fun music, getting our hair did and playing with makeup.  it didn't seem real. it was just like we were playing dress up, it was hard to believe that at the end of that day my baby sister was going to be married.  you can check out becca's facebook album, oh happy day (part 1) to see pictures before the ceremony took place.  once we were all ready to go we all put our dresses on and hopped in the cars and headed to Seewee Preserve in Awendaw, SC, which is where the wedding was.

bec and i crammed in mom and dads car and i'm not gonna lie, i got a little teary eyed on the way there thinking about that being the last time we would be a family of 4.  of course those tears were of happiness, because i couldn't have been more excited about the new edition to our family :)

i love these pictures so much!

going from a miss to a mrs. in only a few hours.  she might kill me for this one, but i love it.

can't believe it :) so happy for you!

when we arrived at Seewee all of the girls went into this little house to finish getting ready and so bec could get into her dress.  since there are tons of pictures from this, i am just going to post my favorites.

this is one of the signs that i painted to go at the entrance of Seewee.  i painted signs there were all over the property with becca and russ' favorite bible verses.

me and my sissy right when she put her dress on :)

moma getting her all zipped in.

reilly helping moma and me just staring in awe of how beautiful my little sissy looks :)

kisses for the bride-to-be

still couldn't believe that this day was finally here! morgy had to get back there and tie bec's beautiful bow.

so special. my favorite picture.

all of us praying over becca right before it was time to walk down the aisle.

if you want to see pictures from the actual ceremony you can click this link to becca's facebook album, oh happy day (part 2) and even more pictures in this album, oh happy day (part 3).

one last picture that is another one of my favorites (i know i have tons of favorites)

 right after they became mr. and mrs. russ tomlinson :) 

oh happy day!