Suzanne and Lance's Wedding Website: April 2009

We did it! We are finally married! I'm sure a lot of you who read where wondering what the heck happened to me before and after the wedding. Well, before the wedding, I was just too darn busy to do anything but wedding stuff. After the wedding, well, I'm still trying to recover from my wedding coma.

Our wedding was absolutely perfect! I can't stop gushing about how perfect everything went and how much fun we both had. We have asked each other if we would have changed anything and our answer was a big NO! These next few blog posts are going to be pictures and stories from the last few days. I would love to share with everyone how everything came together and all the funny little moments we had during our wedding weekend.

We will be leaving for our honeymoon on Thursday, and I'll be bringing my personal laptop with me so we will be able to blog while in Hawaii too! Tracy's wedding is only 10 days away and I'm excited I finally have time to think about it! hahaha

Let's see where should I begin? Originally I wasn't going to take Thursday off of work, but as the days drew closer to our wedding I realized Thursday was a "must have" day off! My boss graciously gave me the day off and if I can give one piece of advice to brides out there, take Thursday and Friday off before your wedding!! I do not know how I would have been able to do everything without those days!

Thursday I had my mani/pedi appointment, made a last minute run to Michael's, purchased our "thank you" gifts for our fathers and groomsmen, finally went out and bought my undergarments for my dress (T.M.I. I know, but seriously, why did I wait until the last moment??) made a billion and a half phone calls, spent way too much time at the mall, bought my super cute purple vans for under my wedding dress (again why wait until the last minute??) met up with Lance's family for dinner down by the hotel, and then finally heading over to Jared's house to view our slide show. I started running my errands on Thursday at 9am, and we didn't get back home until 10pm. I'm talking a solid 13 hour day of non stop go go go. I felt good about everything I had done that day, but still was sick to my stomach when I thought of how much I still had left to do. I seriously needed more hours in the day! hahahaha

Like I said, we got home that night at 10pm. When we got home, I got into my pj's and was heading out to the living room to start finishing up the programs for the wedding. Me and my brilliant self decided to make labor intensive programs, which turned out cute, but was SO much work! At 10:25pm on Thursday evening, 2 days before our wedding the freaking power went out. I couldn't believe it. We were all standing there in the dark. Jesse had just put food in the microwave to heat up. He wasn't even able to push start before the power went out. It was really funny until I realized I wouldn't be able to get any of the work done I needed too.

We decided to just go to bed (well Jesse went out to get food since he didn't want to eat the cold food in the microwave!) but I couldn't really sleep. My mind was going over the millions of things I still needed to do. Finally at 2am the power came back on. I got out of bed and started working. I hadn't slept a wink. I couldn't, things had to be done. I cut those programs until 7am when I couldn't see straight any longer. Some of those toward the end started looking bad. If your program was all jacked up sorry. Those must have been the ones I did on no sleep! ;-)

At 7am, I had to lay down. I couldn't even function anymore. I only slept until 10am, but man was I mad at myself. When I woke up I completely felt like I had slept too long (you know 3 hours is to long to a bride to be!!! hahaha) and now I was behind! I'll continue on with Friday's festivities tomorrow. I think this blog post is long enough for now, and probably boring to everyone but me! ;-)

Love,
Suzanne

A few weeks ago, the girls and I headed off to Arizona for the weekend to catch some spring training baseball and some sun! The girls from my wedding party packed up on a Friday and we caught a plane right out of town.

The flight over to Phoenix was so cool because the flight was full of Angel fans! We had a delightful flight there and only some minor hold ups getting our rental car. You should have seen 6 girls and their luggage packed into an SUV! It was quite interesting, but we got it all to fit!! hahaha Oh, let me introduce you to everyone. My good friend Suzy is in the back row on the left, my twin sister and bridesmaid is in the back row in the middle. My bridesmaid and sister Rachel is in the back row on the right. My bridesmaid and one of my BFF's Wendy is in the bottom row to the left. My other BFF and maid of honor Tracy is in the bottom row in the middle. And there I am on the right. I love all of these girls so much!

Once we got to our hotel and checked in we headed over to the spa.This pictrue was taken pre-spa. Post spa, we all looked completely torn up. I would never post that picture! They would kill me! The spa was really nice, and we all really liked the treatements we got! I'm really glad we added this stop to our itinerary!

After the spa we headed back to the hotel and got ready to go out that night. Cat and I love the Spaghetti Factory and any state we visit that has one we always stop and check it out. We have both been to the two in Orange County, the one in Seattle and the one in Oahu. Somehow I haven't been to the one in Portland even though I have been to Oregon a bunch of times. I'm going to have to make it a point to stop there the next time we come and visit!!! So, since we want to visit all the Spaghetti Factory's out there, we had to be total tourists and take a picture in front of the sign!

It's a horrible picture I know sorry! It really is better than the other ones the person tried to take for us! LOL This Spag. Factory building here in Phoenix was so neat. Here are some better pictures from that night!