Wedding Bells!

This past weekend, my sister in law, Ashley, got married.  What a special weekend it was!  All 5 of us (yikes!) were in the wedding.  And you know what?  We survived!!

Now, prepare yourself for a ton of pictures...

@ the rehearsal dinner.  Ashley and her matron and maid of honor!

The bride and groom (his name is Grant, and YES, we LOVE him!!!)

My father in law married them.  Such a special moment for him!

And here is my groom standing across the stage from me.  In typical Chris fashion, he's not behaving.

Mom and daughter making a few changes...

Trying to take a picture of Ashley and Jerome.  Thanks Valerie, clearly what I really wanted was a picture of you :).

This was what I was aiming for!

Chris ushering his mom in...

I was trying to take a picture of this sweet moment, a dad practicing the giving away of the bride.  Sweet, right?  But take a closer look.  Yes, that's Chris in the background pretending to pick his nose.  Or maybe he's not pretending.  That's wouldn't surprise me either.

I love how Grant looks so intensely at Ashley.  No doubt that these two love each other!

Rehearsal done.  Now on to the dinner!

So mad this picture isn't in focus because they are such a cute couple!

Yeah, they're pretty cute too :)

Ashley and Grant live in LA so most of their wedding party was from there.  I do have to say that they have an amazing group of friends, including this precious couple!

Mallory and Matt.  They are both married, but neither one of their spouses could make the wedding.  When I took the picture, I told them to pose for a "we are married, but not to e/o picture".  This is what they came up with :).

Grant's brothers (he is one of 4 boys) and Matthew and Lizi (they did the music for the ceremony)

More LA peeps.

Grant's parents.  Such sweet sweet people.  They live on a ranch in Missouri where they raise, sell and distribute free range ,organic beef.  Cool, right?  Check out their web site here.

The researsal dinner was fabulous!  Afterwards, we had a lingerie shower for Ashley and the boys took Grant out.  The nest morning, we all met up at the church...

Because she lives in LA, Ashley has access to all kinds of fun people!  These two girls, Cynthia and Evy, were at the top of my list!!  Cynthia worked with Ashley at the E! Network and Evy is a hair/makeup artist.  On top of that, they are just plain fun to hang out with!

The bride getting dressed...

Bride and Ring Bearer (not dressed yet).

Such a handsome little boy, if I do say so myself!

And of course, the flower girls are just as good looking :)

We made it through the ceremony and Carson actually succeeded in pulling the girls down the isle in a wagon.  A modern day miracle, for real!

We headed to the reception and these were the only 3 pictures I took:

Wrangling all 3 kids while being 9 months pregnant was rough!  So thankful for my mom and dad who basically gave up their whole day to help with the event :).  

Ashley and Grant made the most beautiful bride and groom.  We love you both so much!  Can't wait for all the fun times to come!!