cutest flower girl, ever...

So Aunt Julie's big day begins...

We joined the ladies in the Presidential Suite for hair and makeup!

Here is Rowan's first 'up-do', although it wasn't up, but it was definitely done! Thankfully it was a laid back environment in Aunt Julie's Suite, so her impatience was allowed! But overall she did very well!

 Here is the final touches, make-up, dress and all! Super cute!

 We got to ride in the limo bus to the church with the groomsmen and grandparents! Rowan loved it. She was looking out the window waving to people. And was interested in her Daddy's flask as well!

 And Tada...she even made it down the aisle! No tears! Or bribery! But we only made it through about 5 minutes of the ceremony before she saw her Daddy up on the altar and was whining for him. Then we made our exit! So I did miss out on most of the ceremony. We did come back in and sat in the back eventually but we were in and out in order to keep the ceremony quiet!

 We got a few pictures after the wedding, but not many. It was difficult to get good pictures in the church without a flash. But I think we have at least one good one! Excited to see the photographers pictures!

 Between the ceremony and dinner/reception, there was a significant amount of time, so we went back to the hotel and changed out of our dresses and managed to get about an hour nap in. Also got to visit with some family and friends that were there, and then it was time to get back into our dresses for cocktail hour and dinner. But really, Rowan only cared about the dancing!

It was difficult to entertain the kids during the dinner and speeches, because like most weddings, it gets long and drawn out. So they ended up running around the dance floor. But she made it through. And actually went strong until about 10pm when she finally fell asleep on my shoulder while dancing. She was a dancing machine. She was going up to people she didn't know and grabbing their legs and dancing with them. I have never gotten so many compliments on how cute she was and well behaved! In my mind she wasn't the best behaved but given the circumstances, she did pretty well.

A few highlights from the day:
I didn't do a good job of photographing many of the little things. But they didn't have a cake, they had a Cold Stone Creamery Sundae Bar! That was an awesome idea! Rowan was too busy to even partake!

They also had a photobooth that Rowan was mesmerized by, even though half the time she didn't smile because she was too busy looking at the screen counting down!

To my knowledge the day went off without any issues! Julie looked beautiful! This was the first wedding Rowan has ever attended, and man am I exhausted! Didn't help that Ed was in the wedding too, so he wasn't always available to help with her either. But we did all survive! And I hope we didn't interupt too many things throughout the weekend! We all had lots of fun and are so happy to have Julie officially a part of the family!