Wedding Weekend-Part 2

So now that we have some of the real wedding pictures back, it's time for another post.  Just a little background info on this wedding-I was living vicariously through my brother and sis-in-law the whole time!  Now let me explain...I loved my wedding...I really did, but all my life I wanted a Husker wedding.  I wanted my wedding colors to be red and white, and I wanted to incorporate the Tunnel Walk somehow, and I just had all these grand visions...

None of them came true!  That's what you get when you marry a boy who grew up in SEC country (good thing I kind of like him! :) )

So when my brother got engaged and they decided on a "theme", to say I wasn't jealous would be a lie.  So I embraced the fact that he was going to have a Husker-esque wedding and did my best to help with all I could! 

Their colors were red and black with damask accents.  These are the programs I made.  They turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself! :)

This picture just cracks me up!  If you were to see the progression of pictures before this one, you would see that the photographer is in front of the boys and they are walking toward the camera.  Lots of cool, artsy shots all leading up to this final one...

Here's our little family. Getting Lainey to cooperate for pictures at this point was near impossible!  It was about 3:00, and she had had no nap.   She also had a high fever, which we were not entirely aware of until we got home the next day.  That explained A LOT about her odd behavior over the weekend.

Me and my baby brother.  If you look closely you can see my growing baby bump.  We almost had a close call thinking we were going to need a different dress, but I managed to make this one work.  I was 12 weeks on their wedding day, and we had not made our baby news public yet.  As far as I know, no one suspected anything, but I'm sure when the news broke the following week there weren't many surprises! :)

Jake and the bridesmaids

Megan and the groomsmen

The obligatory feet picture that is oh so popular these days.  I think it's my favorite one!

The whole bridal party

I think this one needs to be in a magazine somewhere!  So stinkin cute!

These were the doors outside of the reception hall.  These wreaths were by far my favorite thing I made for the wedding!  I even made one for our front door!

These would be the money collectors for the Dollar Dance.  This tradition was a new concept for me, because I'm pretty sure this is not a common practice in the South.  The Dollar Dance is where people give money to dance with the bride or groom.  This money is then used on their honeymoon or wherever.  It's really nice because there is a designated amount of the bride & groom's time where you get to spend a moment with them and talk...and it doesn't hurt that they make a little money doing it! :)

All in all it really was an amazing wedding!  I think I can say this is our last wedding for a long time...maybe forever!