Wedding Recap: Getting Ready

Since I posted the other day about our engagement and the rings, I decided that I would do a wedding day recap. Our 3 year wedding anniversary is January 10th and I cannot believe how much time has flown!

We got married on January 10, 2009 at Annunciation Catholic Church in Downtown Houston and had our reception at Union Station inside Minute Maid Park. This post will be all about getting ready.

Since our ceremony was at 2:30 we did not really have the day to relax and my girls and I went to my make-up artists studio down the street to get beautiful so there are no photos of that. The guys we also ordered told to be at Inn at the Ballpark ready to go for photos.

Ok funny story about this photo: Do you notice the pill bottle in my moms purse? I am a pretty high strung person, and with all the nerves flying around the days previous my mom had a prescription filled from our doctor friend for a muscle relaxer. She did this for my sisters wedding too.  It was actually mainly for my dad but my mom took one the day before and then she cut one in half for me that morning.

I wore my moms pearl necklace and pearl/diamond earrings

I also wore purple heels with a six pence taped in. It is for good luck - it is supposed to be from the year you were born I think but we did not have that so we used it from the year of my parents wedding. Good enough right?

I also wore an Astros Garter

I wore my moms mantilla veil - it was hand made in Spain as a gift from my dads family for their wedding 46 years ago. My mom wore it when she married my dad, my aunt wore it, my sister, and me. It is gorgeous - it actually bustles up so I wore it all night.

Here we all are about to head downstairs - we clean up nice right?

Check back tomorrow for more pre-ceremony photos that include the guys!