Texas Fall Wedding #1

I got to spend 10 whole days in Texas in October - what a treat!! I had planned long before to be there for Jessica's wedding in Austin. She's one of my oldest and dearest friends, so of course I wasn't going to miss her big day! I had also always intended to stay the week before or after in Dallas. When I realized my New York friends, Kelly & Daniel, were also getting married in Austin just 6 days after Jessica. I started thinking that maybe I could swing 2 weddings in Texas in one week - and I did! It was a busy 10 days, but very fun!

I flew into Dallas on Thursday night, then headed to Dry Bar on Friday morning on my way out-of-town. I had heard of Dry Bar in Dallas and they more recently opened one in NYC and I was really excited to try it. They blow your hair straight and have a wide selection of cocktails to sip on while they're working. Fun! I wasn't SUPER impressed with my blow-out though. I had my hair blown-out in NYC a couple of weeks before that when I'd gotten my hair cut and I thought that stylist did a better job than the gal at Dry Bar. It was good enough, though :)

I drove to Austin and stayed with my college friend, Janet, and her family for the next 2 nights. It was soooo great to spend some time with Janet - it had been too long! She has 2 boys and I hadn't met the youngest yet, so it was great to see them, too. Her oldest is extremely sociable and so fun. I had fun seeing them and catching-up in between all the wedding festivities and on Sunday we were all able to go to lunch together before I drove back to Dallas. I am so mad I didn't get any pictures with Janet or of her family that weekend.

Jessica's wedding weekend was such fun! Friday night, we went to the rehearsal dinner at a pizza joint and all my high school friends were there - it was great to see everyone in Austin! It was a fun, relaxed night with wine and yummy pizza.  We also got to meet Waylon and Miles that night, the two newest Kewpie babes and just a couple of months old!

With Kate, Waylon, Kelly, Miles, and Maggie

It's so sad that we only took 1 picture this night

and it did not include the bride!!

(oh, and I'm actually liking my hair in this picture....

maybe I'll straighten it this weekend :))

On Saturday, I threw a little bridal breakfast for Jessica and her closest girlfriends/family. We went to a place called Chez-Zee and they have an event planner who was SO awesome to work with and made it so easy to plan something from 2,000 miles away. The food was pretty good, too.

Our table, all set up!

I homemade the menus and placecards.

I'm all about frugal event planning these days and the

only thing I purchased was the buttons (from the $1 bin at Michaels!!)

Finally, a picture of the bride!

All the ladies!  Plus, Evelyn the flower-girl.

We had their famous creme brulee french toast as an appetizer - yum!

Jessica again

With Kelly & Evelyn

We got our waiter to take a pic of the whole party

Party Favors...Imperial Wedding Tea!

After brunch, Kelly, Maggie, Kate, and I huddled together in Kelly's hotel room and got to planning our toast for that night. We'd already done the bulk of the planning via email, but it was good to get together and edit it all and practice. And it was fun to have those few hours together! Jessica is involved in Mortified shows (as a performer and producer), and Maggie had the brilliant idea of doing a mini-Mortified show for Jessica's toast - it was really fun!  I didn't take any pictures of our toast-practicing, but did get one shot of the cute babies!

That night was the wedding, of course! It was a really fun wedding! And it's been featured on all kinds of blogs so you can go here or here to read all about it and see more professional pictures than mine!
 

Cute set-up of pictures of Jessica & Bobby

A friend of theirs embroidered this and it looks just like one

of their engagement pictures!  Love this!

Joe & Kate, too cool in their shades

Jessica's brother & mom 

Bobby's niece and nephew

Bobby made an awesome entrance down the aisle...shaking hands and greeting everyone

Even 2-year-old Evelyn made it down the aisle!

Here comes the bride! 

Getting married...Jessica looked so happy!

 Sweet girl with pretty flowers

Table setting 

Dessert Table!  So cute!

Loved all the cookies homemade by her Brazilian mother

Grand Entrance of the newlyweds
Don't you love her dress?
It was her mother's wedding dress, made by her grandmother!

Jessica's pretty bouquet

With the bride!

Bride & Groom placecards

First Dance!

This picture cracks me up...it looks like

Bobby looked up and posed for the shot!

Toast Time!

Jessica's Dad's Toast

With Julianne - Jessica's college friend

Dance Party!

One more pic with the bride!

Photo Booth shot with all the girls!