So, it was after 11pm by the time we finally laid down. Charley, of course, was asleep in about 2 mins. I don't see how he does it! Me, on the other hand... I had about a billion things running through my head. "Is everybody going to show up on time?" "will the photographers be there to pick us up?" "will hair/make-up show up?" "will I even like what they do?" "is my dress going to look right?" "does my jewelry even look good with the dress?" "did I even remember my jewelry??"
Yes.. these were the things floating around in there. I almost gave myself a panic attack! Luckily, I finally fell asleep. I'm not quite sure what time it was... close to 12am.. And did I mention the alarm was set to go off at 3:30am???
Thursday, Sept 15th, 2011
"Today is the day!! It's FINALLY here!" This was what I was thinking as soon as the alarm went off at 3:30am..
I desperately needed
(minus the web surfing). Charley put the coffee on while I jumped in the shower. I debated about washing my hair, because I heard it stays better when it's not squeaky clean... But it was oily looking at the scalp, so I broke down and went ahead and washed it. I had to shave and all that good stuff. I was in and out in no time. I put on the PJ set I got from David's Bridal. It was cute. (pic coming up) Charley had my coffee ready, which he does all of the time because I tell him he makes the best coffee!!
But he does!!!
Then he had to start his showering process. He started getting all of the stuff out and realized he didn't have any shaving cream. This was after we discovered that he forgot the electric razor as well. These were the items from the bathroom he was supposed to be packing when I was making phone calls before we left the house. He said he forgot all of this!!
Very aggravating. Besides the fact that I had forgot the dress bag with all of the dress I bought from David's Bridal! But my mom saw them in her closet and brought them with her!
Good lookin out Ma!! haha Anyway a little off topic there... Back to the shaving cream.. we called some of our guests that we knew were up.. my mom and bf, that's it. Who else is up at 3:45am??? They didn't have any with them. Her bf uses something else to shave. Charley ended up using the bar of face soap that comes in the room!! I told him he was going to be broke out everywhere. Luckily he wasn't though!! He finished his all showering process and just put on some shorts.
Meanwhile, I was trying to drink my coffee... but it was starting to make me a little queasy!!
I was really starting to feel sick to my stomach. It was all about to start happening. How exciting!!!
Waiting on Beaute Special (Rough looking so early in the morning haha)
Beaute Speciale said they would be at the room at 4am. At exactly 4am, there was a knock on the door. It was Rosie!! I had heard good things about her on here, as well as from the steamers from Carolyn Allen's the day before. lol I was very excited!! She was super nice. She got my chair set up where I could still watch tv.. which was a very hard thing to do with the lighting in that room. We almost had to sit right under the shade at the table to be to see anything!! I got out my 2 inspiration pics for the hair. I didn't bring anything for make-up. I told her I didn't want the top to be slicked back, but that was the only thing I had to say. She could have at the rest of it. She glanced at pics a couple of times and got started. It didn't feel like it took her long at all to do my hair. I ate a fruit bar and drank some water. That was my breakfast!! lol
These were during the hair process, as you can probably tell!! Charley thought he was being funny by snapping pics. Little does he know that I needed them for documentation processes!!! hahaha
After she finished with the hair; she started on make-up. My mom mentioned that I don't wear a lot of make-up.. and by that she meant I don't wear ANY. EVER!! Rosie said that was good to know!!
She zoomed through the make-up as well. She definitely knew what she was doing. She had me check everything out with the mirror to make sure I was happy... and I was. So here's the final crappy in our room pic!! hahaha
That's the PJ set. It has bride on the tank top with the ribbon on 1 side. The pants were a pink and white gingham type print. Super cute to me!! lol
Then I had to get ready!!
Rosie helped us with this process, as I'm sure she's done several times before. The day before the steamers gave me a tip to make it easier to get in the dress without messing up hair and make-up. Put my slip on the floor (cause it sat there perfect by itself) then put the dress over that, then step into everything together. Worked like charm!!! Except for having to work through all of those layers to get everything straightened up. I made it in there though. That's all that mattered!
Got the shoes on, which I could already tell would be killing my feet.
The whole time I was getting ready, Charley was just standing around!!
It was like 5:45am by this time!!! He started running around getting his tux on. I remembered to put on deodorant!!
My mom mentioned my jewelry!! Completely slipped my mind.
I locked it in the safe the day before when we were doing all of our running around. We got that out and put it on. During this whole process, Rosie was sitting at the table eating a granola bar!! lol She helped where she could, then just waited til my mom was ready to get her stuff taken care of.
We got the phone call that photography was leaving their building and was on the way. It was almost time!!!
We couldn't stand it anymore, and finally went to the lobby to wait for our ride.
Got to take a break for a minute. This took forever to type up. I'm about to pee my pants!!!
TMI!!!! Sorry some of the pics were blurry. Sometime we get a little excited and don't wait for the dang thing to focus!! And of course I'm still not resizing. It just takes too long!
And even I loved it. Not loved it enough to eat all of it. That was the biggest sandwich I've ever seen. Charley ate the rest of mine. Which he does at every meal! He did not like his cucumber salad at all. It had onions in it, and neither one of us like onions. EWWW 
(Now DF is watching Dexter, so I have an excuse!) 
It sounds like everything was really busy the day before the wedding but also alot of fun! Are you going to post a pic of the shirts that you bought at dtd? I can't wait to read more and see more pics!!!!!! 
Another reader! Thanks for staying tuned in! I LOVED everything about AKL!!! 
We knew this was going to be awesome! It was very strange to walk in from the backside of things, but also very cool! We were very excited to get started! There were grounds type workers everywhere! It was kind of different to see all of that going on. We parked my the Walt & Mickey statue.
Where were they? lol I sent Tanis an email. Luckily she was in her office and called DPS immediately. Then our username wouldn't work. Anyway.. I emailed Ruth with DPS about that.. and she had someone check into everything. All was well by 5pm this morning. 
