Pre-wedding

 

 

 

Becky's wedding was last week Sunday.
There were all sorts of fun pre-wedding activities leading up to it, and I did not get many pictures. ..
We did a ladies tea on Thursday. Yum! The tea was good and the tasty treats were better.
Thursday was a hot day. I enjoyed being in my air-conditioned car, the air conditioned midwives office, etc. Being outside for any period of time did not appeal to me. And I sincerely hoped the weather reports would be accurate and the weather would cool by Sunday.
Friday morning was the rehearsal then a rehearsal brunch. The girls had fun being silly with their flower baskets and meeting the other flower girl and the . But we realized we should probably remind them of the correct way to walk with the baskets as well :) Brunch was casual and yummy.

Our basement became wedding storage central int eh months leading up to the wedding.
Wedding favors, a pop-up tent, vases, decorations, wine, you name it had found residence in our basement. On Thursday and Friday morning flowers had been purchased from Pikes Place market & wholesale & stored in our basement. Saturday morning our basement was transformed into a flower shop. We set up a couple folding tables, had large Rubbermaid containers on the ground for flower stems, leaves & other waste and 4 of us went to work on creating all the corsages, bouquets, table arrangements, etc. Thankfully Becky & another helper do flowers professionally. Plus Jarad's mom already had a bit of experience with flowers. So my lack of experience did not hamper things too much because I could do the simpler things and fetch what was needed from various places in the house.
Need some ribbon? I'm on it! Want a gluestick? No problem!
Meanwhile Becky's sister Laurie was up in the kitchen busting out some homemade pies for the wedding. (Instead of cake, Becky & Jarad had lots of women bake pies to share. Yum!)


Saturday night there was a Mariners game that a group of wedding party & friends went to.
I made the decision that sitting in a stadium on a potentially hot, muggy day was not for me.
Matt took Addie. This made Etta upset at first but she quickly got over it.
She will get a special daddy-date in a month or so.
Matt & Addie took the bus, so that is always an enjoyable adventure.
Add in hot dogs, Aunt Becky, and being downtown & you have a fun combination.
Plus there was baseball.