1: My last day as a single lady

1 day to go!

That's right ... the day before the wedding is finally upon us. This week went by sooo slowly! The only really good thing about being as organized and as much of a control freak as I am is that fact that I've been done with everything for the wedding since last weekend. This week has been all about relaxing and enjoying this time with Jon.

Today is my last day as a single lady! Today is our rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. Some of my family will be arriving at our house around noon today for lunch and then to help us get all our wedding supplies up to the hotel. We plan to check in around 3pm then get ready for the rehearsal.

I'm still anxious and I hope this day goes by faster than this week has! I bet the nerves will hit me right before our rehearsal ...

5: Rehearsal dinner

5 days to go!

EDITED TO ADD:

This is NOT good

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Our rehearsal is Friday evening at our venue and dinner will immediately follow the rehearsal at a local brewpub restaurant across the river from our venue. Our rehearsal will be pretty short and sweet ... we'll just need to go over where our family will be seated and the order of the processionals and then the recessional. My amazing cousin Judy is performing our ceremony and she has informed me that she has been practicing (with her equally amazing husband, Bob, saying mine & Jon's parts) and Jon & I have been practicing and reading through the ceremony too! We have not shared our ceremony with anyone except Judy & Bob --- and we wrote the whole thing ourselves ... about 9 months ago ... so we are very excited to see if anyone notices the little personal touches we added!!!

I'm sure Jon will be wearing shorts & birkenstocks to the rehearsal & dinner ... but I decided to get a little more dressed up than that ...

Here is the dress I'll be wearing
(I bought this dress way back in January when
I went shopping with my mom for a dress for my bridal shower)

And the shoes (got to LOVE Target)

16: Rehearsal invitations

16 days to go!

A couple of day ago we sent out our rehearsal dinner invitations to our parents and bridal party. We are having our rehearsal at our venue the night before our wedding and then heading to a local brewpub in that area for dinner & drinks! We had these invitations made because our rehearsal dinner is a pre-order so we wanted to make sure everyone got the info for the meal choices!

We ordered the invites from the same Etsy seller that I got my bridal shower & bachelorette party invitations from! They turned out great ... just like I knew they would! By now everyone should have received them so I wanted to post a photo because they are so darn cute!!!