The Wedding...

The Night Before the Wedding...

Well after a very HOT day it was time to practice this ceremony!!!

All decked out in their Hawaiian attire,

these crazy guys were ready to see

the bride to come down the isle!

I have no idea what they are looking at

but it must have been interesting!!! LOL

Remember these aren't the photographers pictures,

just pictures we all took.

I just loved this one because you

can really see how pretty those hydrangea's and lambs ear

dried flowers looked on those doors!

Here they stood holding hands practicing

for what would be the biggest

day of their lives!

It was a beautiful day

but it was way to hot...

almost 100 degrees and the humidity

well just let us say we were

all dripping wet and miserable...

Thank goodness for lots of ceiling fans in that place!!

Down the isle they went...

and off to the other end of the property...

The Rehearsal Dinner was to be all the

way across the property, down by the pond!

West Virginia is a beautiful State

as you could see we were surrounded by trees

big beautiful Green trees.

And to the right, right behind those trees

is a beautiful river!

If you look really close

far in the background about 300 yards down

Is the pavilion the wedding would be held the next day!

By this time mostly decorated

and shortly after this dinner we would be adding the

finishing touches on everything.

That way the next morning all we should have to do is set

the tables and add those little touches that would make everything perfect!

It was such a beautiful evening and everyone was having such a wonderful time!

It was a luau and everyone was dressed the part!

All the bridesmaids were looking great!!!

Signs were hung...

This one was designed by Mary

The Flower girl.

She always called

Amanda/Anda

and well she never knew her Pap

So she always called

JR/Pap

and that is what the sign should read...

and that it did!

Here we are

The Usary Girls!

Me,Amanda & Colleen

we had worked hard

and it was time to party!

Here is our wonderful Photographer,

JR's cousin Sandra and her husband Rocco

and I can't forget the Crazy Groom

in the background!

Yea that's JR

There is Marsha on the right

watching as they cut the great Grooms Cake

her and his sister BJ had bought for him!!!

It was special all right!!!

Topped with a replica of his dog Cabella

a 170 lb. Mastiff

and of course him laying under the tap on that Keg..

It was such a cute cake!!!

This is such a great family photo

of

JR,Mom & his sister BJ

They had no idea until that night

they had bought the same outfit

for this occasion..

JR & my nephew Austin

really did dress alike that night and they looked so cute!

They look like they just got caught taking a sneak taste of that cake!!!

And these life long friends always look this rotten...

They look so happy and ready to start a new chapter in their lives!

To Be Continued...

Lynn

The Wedding...

The details...

We knew with a burlap theme it was going to be hard so we decided..

IT WAS GOING TO BE ALL ABOUT THE DETAILS...

This very old suitcase was in someones basement, I think maybe Colleens.

We opened it up and inside it was lined with Contact Paper!

Olive Green and Antique Gold like from the 70's

LOL

I ripped it out really fast...

Lined the whole thing with "Burlap"

I never knew there were so many kinds of Burlap!

Than where the pocket on the lid was suppose to be

 I used a really open weave

Wide Burlap Ribbon and gathered it to look like the pocket

Now for the detail...

Muslin Roses...With Dried Lemon Leaves...

Muslin was Amanda's Grandmothers favorite fabric,

and she had lots of scraps in Tuff Boxes..

In fact she had lots of things we used for this wedding.

Grandma died about 2 years ago and every time we went to her garage to find something

We would say:

"She Just Keeps Giving and Giving"

as she always did.

She would have loved all the things we made and used of hers!!!

I learned how to make the flowers from many hours of watching You Tube Tutorials!

You can learn how to do anything from You Tube!

Than I ran a brown satin ribbon across the top from rose to rose

Made some letters out of card stock covered in fabric

for the words...

"Cards"

Added some antique linens and doily's

and a few more roses...

The ring bear pillow leaning in front, burlap of course with a birds nest on it!

Topped the table with one of Great Grandma's Quilts from the 40's

and that is where all the cards they received were placed.

I think it really did turn out pretty cute!

In Loving Memory...

I know somewhere there is a picture of this up on the mantel at the wedding.

I guess we will have to wait for the photographers pictures on this one...
I found one,but you have to look for it...
On the left where the antique lace tablecloth is hanging off shelf...

This picture gives you a good view of the fireplace area...
The tall racks held all the cupcake's, 190 of them...

Didn't need that fireplace with temps in the 90's

One more old suitcase

(Amanda works at Garfield's Restaurant and they are remodeling

So lots of the things that were up on the walls were up for grabs and she grabbed this one)

This one had tiny decorated bottles

with antique hankies tucked inside

"For Happy Tears"

It was so hot that weekend we

put sunscreen and bug spray

to keep everyone comfortable, being right by the river...

The basket on the right was full of Muslin Squares...

Everyone wrote with markers a nice note for the

Bride and Groom

These will be put together to make a quilt.

In the tall silver vase were sparklers for their send off...

This table also had one of Great Grandmas Quilts

along with a table runner made out of

Yea you guessed it!

Burlap

With their "W"

for

Walls...
I had good time painting all of those. The head table had the ones with the "W" for Walls
all the other tables were just trimmed in white.

On this bench another quilt with a basket of Beer Koozies as favors

and more of the Hydrangea Baskets ...

All of these tables lined the walkway as everyone came in.

It was nice seeing everyone writing notes and adding prints to the tree

and dropping off their cards and gifts...

and as you can see the sun was shinning on them this day!!!

It was beautiful!!!

To Be Continued...

Lynn