Flashback Friday . . . Our Wedding Rehearsal

We had such a great time the Friday before our wedding.  It was my first full day off work and by now all of our friends and family had arrived in town.  The boys all went to play golf Friday, while us girls headed to the nail salon for mani's and pedi's.  We followed that up with a bridal luncheon at Mi Cocina.

That night, we headed to Perkin's Chapel for the actual rehearsal followed by the rehearsal dinner at Bice (it's an Italian restaurant in uptown, that has since closed).   This was the first time, it really hit me that I was getting married the next day.  Practicing walking down the aisle with my dad made it seem so real.  Everything went smoothly at the rehearsal though which helped put me at ease for the next day.

Shawn's parents planned the rehearsal dinner and everything turned out great.  We had a cocktail hour in the bar area where everyone could visit.  My parent's friend, Mr. Jenkins, had made a slideshow for Shawn and I with pictures of each of us growing up.  The slideshow was playing on the bar area TV's during the cocktail hour.  We headed into the dining room for dinner and to be honest, it felt like it took forever for dinner to be served.  The restaurant went very heavy on the wine serving and I'm pretty sure we all sat around for an hour or so and they just poured and poured and poured the wine.  Needless to say, everyone enjoyed themselves.  So much so that I ended up having to drive my brother, sister-in-law and 2 cousins home that night.  I wanted to make sure everyone got home safely.  I stayed the night in our apartment with my friend Jessica, Stephanie, and Steph's husband, Luke.  Shawn stayed downtown at a hotel.