Thankful: Thanking our wedding party

Finding the perfect gifts for our wedding party was such a fun wedding task!

As I mentioned in my prior post, my mom and I went to the rehearsal dinner venue that morning and decorated, we also dropped off the gifts. I used them as place cards for our guests so they would know where to sit. 

For the Guys:

Vineyard Vines Red Sox & Patriots ties

My brother threw his on right away! Look how handsome :)

For the ladies:

I got them each a canvas tote from Wedding Chicks, I filled it with.. 

Kate Spade earrings - which they all wore on the wedding day!

Cute flippys which I HAD to buy. I got them at Marshall's and they had the exact number I needed in the EXACT sizes.. talk about fate!

I also added this travel brush set from Sephora, the ones I bought were bright pink! I included this because I wanted to tie in that I was treating them to their makeup on the wedding day!

I added this pink lightweight bathrobe from Old Navy... when I purchased these I had this thought in my mind of the cute bridesmaid shot with all the girls in them... my girls did not disappoint, look how beautiful they look!

And before the rehearsal I treated them to a little nail pampering. This was a really fun way to spend some time with my ladies prior to getting hitched!

Please disregard the intense spray tan, I scrubbed and scrubbed at this the morning of the wedding to get myself a few shades lighter!!

For the flower girls:

I also bought them totes from Wedding Chicks I added some flower clips I found at Forever 21 which they ended up also wearing on the wedding day.

I added these cute sticker paper doll books I found on Amazon as well as a Disney Brides coloring book w/ crayons. I believe these were a hit with my little lovies. 

How presh is my flower girl Nina, she melts my heart!

I also found this adorable pearl necklace and bracelet set from this Etsy seller. The girls are sporting them in this picture

Our parents were a tricky one, I mean what could you possibly give them to thank them for all that they have done! Once I got it out of my head that it was impossible to put a monetary gift to that I was good. 

We decided on gifting them with pictures from our engagement shoot. 

For Eddie's parents we gave them a canvas print of this shot, it was taken on their pond so I thought it was fitting!

For my parents we used this shot and had it put on a piece of wood through Photo Barn, I loved this concept!

I bought my dad these cufflinks, because frankly I could not resist! He is a talented self taught guitar player and hearing his music fill the house is one of favorite memories of growing up. 

I am pretty sure everyone loved their gifts!! I know I loved watching them all being opened!

Warming up for the big event!

The wedding weekend kicked off with our rehearsal at the church followed by a dinner hosted by my in-laws!

The rehearsal went off perfectly, I never knew how beneficial the rehearsal would be. The practice round really did help ease my mind about how the next day would go, and the hand off from dad to future husband was apparently more complicated than I thought...

The wedding coordinator also made sure to STRESS the fact that nobody better show up drunk on the wedding day.... like OVERLY stressed.. he must've had some pretty messy mishaps prior. I couldn't even imagine that! Needless to say, we didn't have any issues on our wedding day :)

After getting it down, we headed out to The Scarlet Oak Tavern to enjoy a night of eating, drinking, and finally spending time with people we love that we hardly ever get to see!

My mother and I went earlier that day to decorate the room. I loved how it came out, simple but adorbs!

I had Shannon Grant Photography capture the evening, she did such a great job, and I hardly even noticed she was there snapping away! All upcoming photo cred goes to her amazing talent!

Once everyone got to the venue Eddie & I snuck away quickly for a few photos around the outside of the restaurant, the rain broke just in time!

Ed had to drag me away from the camera ;), to join cocktail hour and mingle. 

After an all to quick hour, it was time to sit for dinner.

The Scarlet Oak Tavern provided the cutest menus for us. 

A slide show with a bit too many embarrassing photos of myself was shown... I had a very short haircut as a child and was mistaken for a boy more often than not, enough said! But Eddie, he was a cute kid, so at least we had those photos to offset mine.

Toasts, hugs and gifts (upcoming post to come) were given.

Desert was dished out..  no wedding diet would let me pass up one of these! Even though my dress would hardly zip up when I picked it up the day prior.. #brideproblems

and of course we concluded the evening with a bridesmaid photoshoot

Me and a few of the bridesmaids ended up crashing in my suite talking nonsense and laughing a perfect way to end the evening!

2nd best night of my life right there.. obviously the 1st is hard to trump!

WE ARE MARRIED!

Just got back from an amazing 13 days in Italy, happy as can be with my Mr!

We had the most amazing wedding day, can't wait to share it all!! 

for now I leave you with this...

Happy seis de mayo!

How great was it that Cinco de Mayo fell on a Saturday this year?!

Such a fun holiday to celebrate, I mean who can contain their hips when spanish music is playing especially after having a few margaritas! cinco de mayo = endless dance party!

This year we decided to try out the Tacos Guaymas block party on Green Lake. And it did NOT disappoint!! Music pumping plenty of bars open, it was a good day/night.

I attempted a festive outfit after stumbling upon these pants at Target. For 22 bucks I couldn't resist getting them in orange and blue! They are actually cropped skinnies and are much cuter in person then on their website! The store was pretty much sold out in all of the colors!

a few margaritas and a quesadilla to the face and I was good to go! Can we talk about how cute these plastic cups are.. I adore anything with a mustache on it! Well except maybe my fiance, I'd prefer he stay mustache free for the time being... 

Meg and I had to take a pic with this guy who apparently thought it was a white party, to be fair he asked us to have a pic taken with him as well....

ohh you like my cross body purse do you? well I recently splurged on this Hobo beaut, BUT I did get it at a pretty hefty discount on Rue Lala. I figured it would be perfect for wearing around Italy!

and this pretty much sums up the afternoon/evening... ran a muck with this wild child.

Completely shifting gears here but I wanted to share the gorgeous hanky that will be wrapped around my wedding bouquet. My mother's coworker embroidered this for me, it turned out so lovely and I can't waittttt to see it in person wrapped around my flowers!!

Fling before the Ring Savannah Style!

This past weekend me and some of my best girls & I met up in Savannah Georgia for a weekend of sun and ridiculousness. 

There was no place I'd rather spend one of my last weekends as a single lady than at this little slice of heaven. We were welcomed to 90 degree heat.. HELLOOOO what I needed SOOO badly in my life right at that moment!

First stop on the agenda River Street! Any city you can walk around with cups of booze is a city I want to be in! We grabbed some margaritas and hit the pavement!

That lady up front, thats my maid of honor, one little ball of fun!

We found this hot spot on top of the Bohemian Hotel and saddled up for a few more rounds. 

Then made our way back to our pad for the weekend.. This place was AMAZING, let me tell you, just take a look at the patio, that is if you can look beyond the obscene beer bong.. hey it had to be done, it was a bachelorette weekend after all!

Moving right along to day 2, we hit Tybee Island, a short 20 minute ride got us to this island paradise. I coulda parked my butt here for days. Tybee was a super cute little beach place, not a whole lot going on in that area though.

This is my college friend Jen & I. She seriously keeps me sane throughout the workweek on gchat. 

After a few hours in the sun, we headed back to the house and cleaned ourselves up, I was ready for the night pimp cup in hand and some pretty jewels around my neck (ha).

We started at Vics on the River for a high class dinner, I ditched my bach garb for this and traded up for a classy proseco drink. Not too many pictures we were taken after this point in the night..

The night ended back in the kitchen where we chatted for hours..

Day 3 we relaxed on the patio then got ready to hit City Market for some sight seeing.. I wore this extremely comfy Victoria's Secret dress.

We quickly ordered some Peach Sangria for our stroll.

 Here we are waiting and waiting and waitinggg for it!

By the end of the day and evening we were all a little rough around the edges.. even though, see that sneaky girl to my left, that's one of my bridesmaids, well see, as I was shoving Jager shots down she was taking "tequila" shots ahem actually WATER shots. JERK. ;)

We stumbled our way home and crashed that night.. 

The next morning we packed up and got ready to say goodbye. We did one last stroll around City Market for some lunch. 

What an amazing bachelorette weekend was had by me!! Seriously nothing tops a nice long weekend away with my girls!! Can't wait to be reunited with them again in ONE MONTH for my wedding day!!!!