Hannikay re~cap

::part one::

Back again... still without internet at home, but hoping to squeeze in some posts at work. :)

We have all our wedding photos back now and we are enthralled by the results! I want to share so much with you about how the day went - what was good and what was not.. and now I can put photos in amongst the story.

So starting with.. the start. I woke at 6:30am, but we all had a 2 hour drive into the city we chose for the wedding.



I was quite relaxed.. actually I was on a high! I had spent all Friday fixing up the dramas that had unfolded during our rehearsal on Thursday night, so today I was confident everyone knew what to do!

I had written our a spreadsheet in Excel, with names across the top and times down the left hand side. In 15min intervals, I had the ENTIRE day mapped out from 7am in the morn to 11pm at night. If anyone stuffed up now, it would not be my fault!



Writing an entire day's events isn't that hard. You just enter what you KNOW has to happen (for eg. hair appointments, church entry time, estimated church exit time, reception starting time) and then put all the other details around them (eg. Dad pick up Hannah 15mins before church start time).

I printed off copies and gave them to everyone. People on the spreadsheet included bride, groom, b/maids, dad, mum, videographer, FMIL etc). I knew in my mind where I wanted all of them, so this put my thoughts into their head. I also put errands on it, for example, at 4:45pm in mum's column, I had "Put presents from church in car to take to reception".



The boys didn't have a lot to do in the morning, no length hair and make up appts, so I had for them to go and check the sound at the reception, practice playing the videos that we were going to display etc.





I was so ecstatic about how my hair turned out, but disappionted with my sisters turnout... I could have done a MUCH better job with a curling iron and hairspray at home! It was supposed to be all tight curled, but ended up being long spirals that eventually hung themselves out.... but it was ok - they still looked cute with their headbands.



Because we lived so far from the city, we arranged to get dressed in our honeymoon suite room, which was the BEST thing ever, because as you can see by the piccies, it was a classic vintage room with heaps of glitz.



We were well ahead of time with our preparations.. I was starting to get jitters, no appetite for lunch (4 grapes I think I had?) and rush around helping the girls & mum get dressed. Then the photographer, Sarah, arrived and she made me feel soooo much more relaxed!



She LOVED my little handmade touches, like my paper bouquet, girls shoes, dresses & my sleeve.. she started jumping up and down and getting all excited (she's a gorgeous petite lil thang!) and I knew I'd made the right choice :)



We had nearly an hour of her taking photos of me, my sisters and parents before the wedding, because our "First Look" was to start.





I don't think it was the plan for all my little brothers to come by with Dad but they did and it made my day seeing them in their lil bowties mum made!



By now, Jason was ready for the first look. We had a little scary moment, because the poor boy freaked out when he saw a few of his friends lounging around in the park we were going to do our "first look" in! He rang, and said there was no way we were doing the first look there, and he was driving away again.

So I freaked out too, and I pleaded on the phone (via my brother) for him to come back, and we'd make sure no one was around. We had to get the bridesmaids and the videographer to walk around the entry and exits of the park, keeping everyone out. It was a nervous couple of minutes while Jason requested some "time alone" before I came out to see him.

After 5-10mins he said he was ok, and I walked up behind him.





It was a gorgeous moment.



Now, Jason was ahead of time actually, and we had 1/2 an hour to get photos before the wedding (getting our value outta this photographer.. hooo-yeah!).

The following piccies were the result. I couldn't have wished for anything better than a relaxed, quiet 1/2 hour before our wedding ceremony.













Then it was time for Jason to go. Mum & the boys had already left to get into position at the church. It was still 10mins to 3pm, with the church only 2 blocks away. We were going awesome for time!!

Daddy and I hopped in the car together and started off at about 5 to 3pm.

...... I've run out of time. To be continued......

:)

Hannikay