Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!! I was finally able to get through some photos over the long weekend!!!!
Getting closer to the end, but there are still so many more to go through! And I have been experimenting with Aperture 3 to make stylized edits to the photos, which slows things down a little, but it is so much fun!!
Sorry in advance for the huge photos, but Photobucket is not participating with me today!
Our fifth day started with my hair trial before the rehearsal. I was feeling pretty good that morning and really starting to get excited about the wedding! I had arranged to have my trial in the room a few of my BMs were sharing so DH didn't get to see -- and it was so much more private. Everyone was a little slow after the day before, so the girls were just getting out to breakfast when I came in (around 10:30 am). Beaute Speciale sent Laine to do my hair and make up and she was great!! Easy to talk to and great to work with. She had great ideas on how to improve my "vision" and she had no problem trying a couple different things. I am a visual person, so I have a hard time picturing conceptual ideas without seeing them on me. She was great about giving me an idea of what different things would look like.
We started with my hair.
Then the make up.
Mom and I
And finally the veil.
Afterwards she changed my hair for the rehearsal. She had a great idea for a sweeping side bun. I had a clip that I found on etsy that we used -- I had originally gotten the clip for mom to use next day at the wedding, but it worked perfectly!
After the trial, I rushed back to our room to change into my rehearsal dress and go check into the Boardwalk Inn. Since we had so much stuff in our room still, one of DH's groomsmen moved into our room. DH was going to stay the night with him anyway -- and this saved so much stress of having to move all of the extra stuff the guys were going to need for the wedding day (not to mention all the alcohol!). It was so cute too ... when DH and the groomsman went to get new cards for the room, DH was issued one with my last name
(I guess because I had made the reservations originally?).
So I drove over to the Boardwalk Inn. I have to say, I just love everything about Disney!! As soon as they check your license at the gate, they radio ahead and there was a whole team of people waiting to help check me in!! After the room mix up at Coronado Springs, they had given us a Garden Suite at the Boardwalk, so we were treated extra special! They unloaded my car, took all of the luggage/boxes (and there were still a ton!) to the room and parked my car while they escorted me outside to our suite. No checking in, they did it all for us! A very nice gentleman briefly told me about all the special things were get, like free breakfast, wine and cheese hour, and chocolate hour during the fireworks. We ended up being so busy after the wedding, we really didn't take advantage of too much (except the breakfast part), but so cool!
Our room was amazing!! Two bathrooms (which was so helpful while we were all getting ready), a waiting area downstairs, a beautiful upstairs with a king bed, and a balcony -- I'll let the photos speak for themselves!!
I had to rush out pretty quickly to meet everyone else at the WP for the rehearsal at 4. So I hopped into a taxi and was off! Of course everyone else was running a little late, so I beat them all to the WP. I had told everyone they need to leave for the WP by 2:30 and be there by 3:30 so we could take photos, etc. As it turns out we were the last event in the WP that day, so we were able to stay as long as we wanted. I also had Randy come for the rehearsal and welcome party later that day -- another thing I am soooo glad I did! We got some great photos!!
Looks like it was a fun night. 
Man u r famous.. can i get ur autograph 
We didn't decide to go there until right before the wedding. But, the plan was always for the guys to go somewhere a Disney bus shouldn't be seen so a plain bus was in our BEO. Definitely would have made for some great photos at Universal 
