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!

livin' large in texas: part 2

saturday for becca's bachelorette party it was actually her birthday too.  reilly and lauren came up with such a great idea to hire a professional photographer to take pictures of all of us.  we hired Rachel Ledbetter from Fort Worth, TX.  she was amazing and made it so comfortable and fun for us.

(you can click that link to see a sneak peek of the pictures that she took of us)

i will post all of them at a later date.

after our photo shoot we went to an authentic mexican restaurant in fort worth, before heading back into dallas.  it was really yummy and we even got to sing happy birthday to bec.

after lunch we headed back to dallas to hang out and chill a little bit before goin' two steppin' that night.  some of the girls took a nap, i worked on my school stuff, and becca and morgan went to pick up this precious little one.

this little girl used to live at an orphanage in Uganda, where becca lived for 3 months.  when becca and morgan went on their first trip one of the ladies that went with them fell in love with this little one (i mean how could you not) and she adopted her and she now lives with her new mommy and big sister in Dallas, so becca called her up and arranged for her and morgan to go pick her up from her nanny's house and be able to hang out with her for a few hours before her mommy could pick her up.

we ate cupcakes.

 

played with the ball.

 and then her sweet mommy came to pick her up.

 we just couldn't get enough of her :)

after little one left we all started to get ready for dinner and to head out for our night out 2 steppin'

 

rockin' out at Cowboys Red River

 love this pic! ry and bec doin' some of the line dances :)

 love this picture of all of us after dancin' the night away :)

bec- hope you had a fabulous birthday/bachelorette weekend.  i know we all did.

can't wait 'til june 9 :)

wouldn't miss it for the world

so i finally checked my mailbox at my apartment.  i had lots of mail.

bypassed all the bills and found this :)

we wouldn't miss it for the world.

can't hardly wait until 6.9.12

livin' large in texas: part 1

bachelorette/birthday style

{ fyi: bec and her friends are OBSESSED with Friday Night Lights so hints the FNL themed decor }

unfortunately for bec, 4 of her best friends live in texas.  i know that she is really missing them a lot during this special time in her life, especially with all the wedding planning.  after talking about what we were going to do for her bachelorette party we decided that it would be most convenient for us to fly out to texas.  we did some talking about everyone's schedules and it just so happened that the weekend of becca's birthday was going to be JUST perfect for everyone.

so...becca, lo, and myself packed our cowboy boots and we were off to dallas :)

we landed in dallas on friday and were so excited because reilly was there to pick us up :)  we headed to the hotel where we were going to decorate one of the rooms for bec's party we had planned for later that night.  we sent bec to the other room to hang out while we decorated before heading to get dinner at bec's favorite mexican restaurant, chuey's.

reilly and sally, two of becca's best friends live in dallas. along with two of our cousins, lacey and megan.  morgan and lauren, two more of becca's best friends were driving in from austin, where they live.  everyone met up with us for dinner at chuey's before heading back to the hotel.

the cousins :)

 the bride-to-be with sally and ry

 all of us at dinner!

 lauren. bec. morgan.

after dinner we headed back to the hotel for the infamous lingerie shower.  since we are all so artsy of course we took pictures of all the decorations, so here are a few shots of the room decorated.  

(dont mind the horrible hotel room lighting)

(we hung all of bec's lingerie on a string from clothes pins, but i'm not allowed to post pics of that)

cute pantie and bra cookies that ry made!

precious deco that ry made! she used puff paint to make the outline of tx and then painted the bottles with chalk paint before putting those cute little tissue paper flowers in them :) she did such an awesome job with all the cute decor!

cute little pin wheels!

the sign that morgan and lauren made!

morgan and lauren did these cute little wall decorations and also put pictures up all over the room!

goodie bags that lauren made for us non-texas girls :)

yummy cupcakes that sally had made for everyone!

cute little sign that ry bought for decoration and for becca to take home (because this is russ' favorite thing to say)

cute little mason jar glasses that morgan and lauren had with all of our names on them :)

 and the bride-to-be was: surprised. shocked. excited. thankful

 some group photos of us girls. (minus lo in this pic)

 us being silly and posing with this cute frame reilly had brought for decoration :)

 bride-to-be and sally!

 love my sissy!

 becca and her sweet friend lauren!

 love me some morgy!

 holy big eyes! hehe! sorry boo!
such a cute pin that reilly made especially for miss becca boo to wear on the first night!

 pretty sure this might be my favorite picture EVER.  love this 2 more than words can describe.

so. we had a few games that we played during the lingerie shower.

1. bec had to guess who gave her which {little number}
2. we played, "how well do you know your groom." i asked russ a bunch of questions about himself and then we asked bec the questions and she had to guess how russ answered it. every answer she got wrong she had to put a piece of double bubble gum in her mouth. i thought it would be pretty funny seeing her with a mouth full of double bubble, but she actually knows her man very well. (only missed 3 questions)
3. reilly wrote a bunch of questions on a beach ball and we tossed the ball back and forth and whatever question our hands landed on we had to answer it about becca and then when we threw the ball to her she had to answer the questions about us.  this was such a cute idea because we were able to go down memory lane and tell fun stories about becca.

we all had a blast on friday night and then hit the sack to get ready for becca's big birthday surprise we had planned for the next day.

more to come next time :)