A Memphis Wedding

We've been getting excited about this weekend for a long time, Leah and Rich tied the knot. We had an extremely early flight on Friday morning that took us directly from Jacksonville to Memphis. You see we don't get direct flights to anywhere besides Atlanta so for us to get a direct flight somewhere is like heaven in our travel world. We had no issues with airports, rental cars, directions or anything of the sort so we were off to a great start.

After driving around Germantown for a little while we went to Leah's parents and then quickly headed to a morning of beauty. Leah treated her bridesmaids to a mani and pedi, it was really nice way to get the weekend started.




This is Laura, but we like to call her Blinky. A little back story...we all went to Venezuela a few years ago and Blinky could NOT keep her eyes open in any of the pictures. So every time the camera comes out now, I take upon myself to tease her.

This is Leah's sister, Elizabeth.

After our morning at the spa we went back to Leah's parents for a bridesmaid luncheon. This is where we had a fabulous light lunch and then Leah showered us with amazing gifts. Can you tell she spoiled us this weekend?

Stax Museum for the rehearsal dinner. The picture below would be the first night Adelaide stayed up until 10 central time dancing and playing.

Saturday morning we had a chances to roam Beale St before the wedding festivities started again. We went to a place called Little Anthony's where A pigged out on pancakes and then she went crazy when we were leaving and she saw all of the balls lined up outside of the FedEx Forum.

Hair had to be done, of course!

Oh Saturday, the day you would have expected Leah to be stressed and turn into bridezilla, but no luck. We have no stories to tell Leah about how crazy and unrealistic she was being, she was very calm and almost eerie calm.

don't tell, but yes we were drinking in the church.

I brought this garter back for Leah from Belgium.

Pretty family

I don't have any pictures of us while the wedding was happening. Grant was busy trying to keep Tootie busy so that she would notice I was standing at the front.

Can you believe that Blinky had her eyes open and Mark is the one with his closed? History in the making.

Adelaide hanging out with her new favorites: Emily and Bull

Right after a round of Today and Forever we'll be Zetas true.

Our only family picture from the weekend

This is Leah, not only is she one of my best friends, she is also one of Adelaide's first friends. A few weeks after A was born Leah flew in for a few quick days to see us. It was such a good feeling to have a friend come from as far away as Texas to meet my new addition. We didn't get to go out drinking, shopping, lay in the sun or do anything crazy, it was just a weekend of sitting, talking and being with true friends. One thing that Leah said to me a long time ago that I will never forget was, "you know the best thing about you (me) is that we can just sit and do nothing, the pauses in conversations aren't awkward and we don't feel forced to make small talk." Those may not be the exact words, but that's the gist of what she said. True friends can just be there, no matter if they see you everyday (college) or live on what seems like the other side of the world (she used to live in LA). I can't tell you how proud I was to stand up next to Leah on one of the most important days of her life.