the preparation

We got into Spokane on Thursday and the rehearsal was that evening. There were a lot of people to coordinate at this wedding, so the coordinator had her hands full. Lots of laughing, lots of talking when we weren’t supposed to be and lots of keeping the kids occupied while waiting in line.

Here is the bride and her Dad, followed by random rehearsal shots.

The flower girl carefully practiced throwing flower petals down.

Derek and Paul (Megan’s boyfriend) did a great job at managing children. There was a lot of waiting for them. And Derek actually deserves the credit for most of these pictures, as I was a little busy. He had his own little photo shoot to occupy them.

After the rehearsal, we headed to a mexican restaurant for the rehearsal dinner. I failed and only got a couple of pictures of this – hopefully Ryann had some friends take some!

There were no plans for Friday, so we were able to head to the Spokane fair, hang out and have some of our own family time that evening. I have tons of pictures of all of this, but it doesn’t fit this theme:). So on to the continued preparations for the wedding, starting at 9am on Saturday morning. My mom had found this lovely girl to come do all of our hair. I am so glad she was a lovely girl, because Mom found her on Craig’s list and Megan and I were a bit concerned. But it worked out wonderfully and she was great! The girls had their hair put in rags to curl it. I think I will steal this idea for the future.

There was a lot of tv watching, ipad playing and any other thing we could think of doing to entertain them after this. Derek had the brilliant idea of taking them down to the pool to “put their feet in the water”, or rather get all the bottoms of their rags wet so we had to spend extra time blowdrying them. But I shouldn’t complain because Derek was extremely patient and helpful through all of this “girl stuff”. We all got our hair pinned up, which was great since it was 95 degrees outside.

Addison was able to sleep in her rags and then have her hair done at the last minute. This worked out perfectly, and Derek brought her to the venue later. I was amazed how quickly this day of getting ready went, and then we were off to the big event. Stay tuned…