Meet the wedding party!

Here are all the wonderful people we chose to be part of our wedding!

We will start with the ladies...

Maid of honor is my sister. She was my biggest supporter through out the whole process of wedding planning. I could not have done it without her!

My best friend! I was glad to have her here with me on this special day and can't wait to be with her on her day when it happens!

Zach's sister was able to come celebrate with us! We were so happy to have her here. 

Zach's niece was the flower girl. She was so fun!

All the girls wore cowboy boots. 

Now the men!

Zach's best friend was best man. 

Zach's brother and the flower girls dad. 

Zach's younger brother. 

Our co worker and great friend married us. He was the person responsible for getting us to hang out for the first time!

Some more of our family and support system!

I would not have chosen any one else to be by our sides on this day. Thank you I everyone!

Wedding Decorations

I love everything about the wedding decorations! I wanted a country/rustic themed wedding and I think everything went together perfectly! We didn't buy our decorations, we rented them. I suggest everyone do this unless they have plans for everything after the wedding is over! We used MyEventRental. Kathy was amazing to work with and she is so nice!

These are horse shoes welded together. Zach's dad made them for us. It was my favorite decoration!

I bought this chalk board from Joann's. I had a 50% off coupon and I think it cost $15 after the coupon. 

My sister made these for my bridal shower and I loved them so much I asked her if I could have them for the wedding!

Zach's mom and step dad bought the straw for us because they have horses and could use it after the wedding. I bought the letters from Joann's also an wrapped them in twine. 

My friend Shaliece had this pillow made for us, I love it!

These chairs were perfect for the wedding! They were painted to look vintage and I loved them!

Zach made fun of this decoration. It was not anything like a real hitching post but it was still cute! 

Our back drop was amazing! 

We had her put up lights across our yard so when the sun went down there was still light. I wanted to keep them. 

I'm so sad that we didn't get pictures of the tables! We had round tables with ivory linens. Over the linen we had a burlap and lace runner. So cute!

For the guest book I wanted something other then a book. We had to rip down our fence and put up a new one so I decided to use a piece of our old fence. I painted it. 

My mom wanted to put up some balloons to direct everyone to the right house. This picture is cute with the lights in the background. 

Out table center pieces. 

The chair ties. 

Sugar Skull

My sister asked me to go to a Dia De Los Muertos party with her and she wanted to paint a sugar skull on her face. I went to the Halloween store to pick up some make up. It was nice because it was Novermber 1st and everything was on sale! I got A LOT of makeup for $18. 

I looked up online some pictures that I liked and these are what I found...

They were all beautiful to me but I decided to use the 2nd one as my inspiration. It took an hour and a half to paint my face! Finally my sister decided it took too long and we didn't paint hers. This is how it turned out...

Well I had so much fun painting my face, while Zach was at work the next day I painted it again and then again haha!

These are the 2 I did that day. 

Needless to say, my face hurt that night from all the make up that I rubbed off. That stuff stays on good!

I took some pictures to show how I did it, in case anyone else wants to try!

1. Find a picture of something you like. This was mine. 

2. Start with a fresh clean face! The makeup lasts longer and looks better on a clean face. Pull your hair out of your face. 

Tools needed:

Makeup in the colors you want to use. 

Black eye liner. 

White base makeup (it doesn't have to be white or you don't need a base makeup if you don't want a color underneath)

Makeup sponge. 

Small paint brushes. 

Water. 

3. Paint your face with the base color. 

4. Choose color for eyes and paint the shape you want then outline it with the eye liner. 

I didn't paint over my eyebrows. Just filled it in with the eye liner. 

It's all pretty easy! The hardest part for me was doing the left side of my face because I am right handed. You just draw whatever designs you want! 

One thing I found to help was make an outline then paint the inside then outline again because I always tend to mess up an go outside the lines!

Don't buy cheap makeup if you want it to last a while too. The make up I bought was great! The colors didn't blend together. It dried fast!

This was my favorite, I think it turned out good! I can't wait until next Halloween now. It will be fun. I want to do something scary on Zach and me! 

Pictures

The next few posts will be pictures :)

My two favorite of Zach and I. 

And some more. 

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On Friday I woke up and had to go to the airport with my mom to pick up some more family. It's probably the most people we will ever have sleeping in our house! Every room was full and all couches and we have a large house!

After picking them up at the airport we went to my sisters house to see if Zach could find out what is wrong with my parents car. Shortly after getting there it starts to rain. And I don't mean just a rain shower, it seems more like a monsoon! The roads were flooding and looked like rivers!! It had been raining all week and the weather did say that it was supposed to rain on Saturday as well. I had decided that if it rained during our wedding I would be ok. I have actually heard rain on your wedding day is good luck. 

Zach was not able to figure out what was wrong with my parents car so we had to get it towed to a shop and luckily they were able to fix it that day. 

Everyone was hungry and decided to go eat so I stayed with my dad to wait for the tow truck while we watched the rain just keep pouring. After that we headed home so I could get a few more things done when my dad and I decided to go get some food ourselves. 

Our rehearsal dinner was that night. Zach had told people to come at 5 I had told people 6 haha! Bad communication there. Just like everything with the wedding we were scared but the rain was no where to be seen and not a cloud in sight. It was good because we were having a BBQ outside for the rehearsal dinner. Everything went great! Other then I didn't have any of the food because my dad and I had such a late lunch. 

Waking up on Saturday morning, it was raining. Oh no. We decided to go buy some umbrellas for the wedding so those who would come didn't have to be wet. Our decorator called and said she couldn't bring the stuff until right before the wedding because of the rain. As long as it is up by 5! 

This day went by so fast! We needed to start getting ready at 12:30. I didn't even have time to shower!! As Lizzy was doing my hair everyone's phone went off. It was a flash flood alert! Are you kidding me?! My phone has never done this before and it is on my wedding day! I look outside and there isn't even any rain. Huh? We had outside pictures starting at 2 in my wedding dress. I didn't want to be wet walking down the isle!

Well by 2 there was not a cloud in the sky and not a drop of rain touched our house. All the prayers had been heard. 

I was scared if it was raining that a lot of people would chose to stay home, especially if it was flash flood raining. But we had the perfect turn out. 

We came home and started taking the family and bridal party pictures. I was really angry with the photographer. I had emailed her the Monday before the wedding to get a timeline figured out for the day and had not heard back from her. I called her 2 times on Friday (the day before the wedding) and no answer. Finally I had seen an email from her in my inbox saying she will meet us at the park at 2 the wedding day. I was disappointed because for the engagement and bridal pictures she was so professional and even went to the locations before and figured out poses and places to take the pictures. On the wedding day she was 15 minutes late and didn't even know where the park was. We had to tell her all the poses and pictures we wanted done. Believe she should have known what poses to do an directed us. He just stood in he back and waited for us to tell her to start taking pictures. 

After all was said and done, the pictures turned out wonderful. I love looking at them. They will be included in the next post :). 

Crazy week!

Just like everything with the wedding planning... It seemed like everything was going to go wrong but then it turned out perfect!

I am going to start with the week leading up to the wedding. 

I worked Monday to Thursday that week. I wish I could have taken the whole week off but my work does not get done when I'm not there and I was taking the next week off for the honeymoon so it was not able to happen. 

Of course I was nervous that I was not going to be able to get everything I needed done and I will admit for the most part it was just my body that was present at work haha! I got what I needed done and that's about it. Thankfully my parents were here the entire week so my mom cleaned and helped out a lot and my dad cooked dinner! They helped out so much.

Then on Wednesday night Zach got a piece of paper off of the front door and brought it to me. It said that the power company was going to be working on the power lines in our neighborhood and that the power would be out Saturday (the 14th) from 8 am to 5 pm. My worst nightmare!!! We need power for the wedding! To get ready, to keep the house cool because it was pretty hot and also all the food we had in our fridge and freezer! The wedding started at 5 and who knows if it would be on for sure by then or not. 

Thursday morning I called Rocky Mountain Power to see if there is anything I could do. Basically they said that there was nothing they could do because it's a big job that needed to be done and that's the only time they could fit it in and that it would take all the hours they had said it would take. I was trying to hold it together on the phone with the guy but eventually started to cry. He was super nice about it and told me he would see what he could do. He told me he would contact the job foreman and call me back later that afternoon. After hanging up I just had to keep crying. I was embarrassed about bawling at work. Many people saw me crying and I have the ugliest crying face that lasts for hours after I am done crying. 

I ended up having to leave work a few hours early to just go take a nap. By this time, some family from North Dakota were here. I did want to see them but I snuck into my house because I just wanted a nap! They had read my mind because they were already napping!

After waking up from the nap I got the phone call from the foreman at Rocky Mountain Power, they said that they still needed to do the work on Saturday but they promised to be done by 12 noon. Ok I can deal with that. I thanked them for everything. 

I had lots to do that night and was meeting my mom and sister for a spray tan at 8. They had just come from a dinner at my sisters with all the family. Then my mom gets a phone call from my dad saying their car isn't starting. Oh no! It costs a lot of money to fix cars too! Luckily we have a lot of extra cars because we had a lot of family here. 

My next post will be about the rest of the week and leading up to the wedding!