Bridesmaid's Dress Shopping!

So excited to announce that we finally found my bridemaid's dresses for the wedding!!!  Before I show the dress that we ended up going with I'll show you some runner ups first!

My best friends Hannah, Steph, and I went bridemaids dress shopping back in May.  We went to Catan and David's Bridal.  Again, I had another experience where I don't really like Catans.  None of their dresses in the show room are larger than a size 12 and that makes it hard to try on dress there.  However, I really did like the dress above from there.

When we went to David's Bridal we had a much more enjoyable experience and were able to try on dresses and have fun.  We never went back to Catan's after that.  This is one of the dresses that we considered.

At the end of the day our top contender was the dress that Hannah had on in the color that Steph was wearing.  However, after some thought about it I decided that I really wasn't sure about that dress, because I had envisioned a dress that was not strapless.  At the time I was still leaning more towards a one strapped dress like the pink one from Catan's.

Both Hannahs and I went back to David's Bridal in September to look at dresses again and we found this dress!!!  I like the material and how this dress looks a lot!  I think that the two straps looks good on them.  I also liked the cut of this dress better than a one shoulder dress, because they can wear a wide variety of jewelry options with it.  You can see the details on Hannah Johnson's dress better because her dress is lighter and comes out better in pictures.

Our colors for our wedding are light blue and grey/silver.  I really absolutely love the color this dress comes in too!  We are going to get the dress that Hannah is wearing but in the color that Sam has on!!  It's called cornflower and it is exactly the color that Cody and I were going for.  We wanted a lighter blue color but not too light or too dark.  So this color is really perfect.  So excited for the girls to get their dresses in!  We found the dresses towards the end of September so they have plenty of time to get them ordered in.  And David's Bridal is really good about getting dresses in quickly too.  :)

To make things even better later on that night we went to the mall looking for shoes and jewelry.  We decided to go into dress barn and look for a dress for my wedding shower (which I found by the way!!)  but we stumbled upon the perfect jewelry for the girls to wear!!!  It's hard to tell in the picture but the necklace really shines and is light blue too.  If you look at the beads closest to the chain you get an idea of what it would look like.  I bought a color sample from David's Bridal so you can see what the jewelry looks like compared to what the color of the dress is going to be.  I am super excited about finding the girls dresses and jewelry so quickly!  Now we just need to find their shoes!!  So excited that everything is coming together!!!  :)

Katelynn and Shawn's Wedding

Another blog that is long over due!  Here sre the details on Shawn and Katelynn's wedding shower and wedding!

Aunt Sherry did it again!  Another beautiful wedding shower.  She had the shower at the same place as Jacqueline's wedding shower.

The tables were beautifully decorated.  Each table had a center piece and a favor for everyone that attended. I loved that she used pictures of them for the table center piece. The food was really good at the shower too.  My aunt Becky made these little deserts that were extremely good!!

Here was the entry table that showed Katelynn and Shawn over the years.

All of the presents!  Katelynn is such a good present opener!  She gets so excited for every present.

We all played games and had a nice time.  I think Katelynn and Shawn got a lot of nice things at their shower.  Overall it was a really nice time.

Now onto the actual wedding day!  Shawn and Katelynn got married on July 19th 2014.  As usual I took waaay too many pictures, but I just can't help myself!!  I love taking pictures and being able to document big events like this.  Plus now my blog will have all kinds of awesome pictures and details as usual!

 First we started at the church.  This was Katelynn's church that she has been going to in Avon.  Beautiful church and it was really nice because the pastor knew her and was able to tell stories about her during the ceremony.

Here are some pictures before the wedding.  Aunt Becky and grandma

Uncle Johnny and Janel

 

Aaron and Matthew escorting Aunt Sherry in.

 

Shawn's reaction when he saw Katelynn coming down the aisle!  So cute!

Katelynn's dad giving her away.

Start of the ceremony.

I think that this was my favorite picture of the night.

After lighting their unity candle.

They had their friends play a song and sing during the wedding.

During the song.

After the song was over.  They are so photogenic!  You can really see how beautiful Katelynn's dress was in the picture.  I'm so glad that it came in on time!

The kiss!

Mr. and Mrs. Bally

Something that I really liked was that Shawn and Katelynn walked out of the room, and then they came back in and hugged/thanked every person that came to the wedding.  I thought that this was a great idea because they were able to say hi and thank everyone for coming.

Hannah and I

Hannah, Aunt Bec, and me

Hannah and Aunt Dar

Daddy and I

Matthew and Robyn

Aunt Sherry

The happy couple!  The gave us lavender seeds to throw at them.  Of course my Uncle Johnny dumped his whole container down my dad's shirt.  Katelynn's dress had a lot of lace on it so the seeds got stuck all over her dress.  Not to worry though the bridal party helped her get it off of her dress.  And it did smell really good.

At the reception hall.  Dad and Aunt Evelyn...who came to the wedding all the way from TN!

Cody and I.

Aunt Becky and I

 Aunt Becky, Janel, and I 

The photo lover in me loved that they figured out a way to get people to share their pictures with them.  I am trying to figure out the best way to do this for our wedding still.  I'm looking at different apps and ideas.

Shawn and Katelynn walking into the hall.

Here are some details of the wedding.  They had 3 different center pieces at the wedding.  This was the one on our table.

Each table was named for a place that was special to both Katelynn and Shawn.  I thought this was a really cute idea.  

This was the cake table. It was very pretty.  As a matter of fact the hall itself was very pretty, and even the people that owned the place said that they had never seen it look so beautiful and they were even taking pictures for their portfolio because they liked it so much.

The card box area.  All of the guys came into the hall earlier in the day and decorated it while the girls were getting ready.  So the first time that Katelynn saw everything all together was when she walked in.

A different angle.

Cutting the cake!  They were nice to each other and did not smash the cake in each other's face.

 

They had an unique game that they played at the beginning of the wedding.  The DJ sat them down and asked them questions and they each had one of each other's shoes.  

When he asked a question they both raised the shoe of the person that they thought it applied to the most.  It was a pretty comical game. 

The first dance.

Mother and son dance.

Uncle Jack sang the song that they danced to.

Aunt Katelynn with her niece.

The Bally boys and their usual serenading of the bride.  They did this at Matthew, Aaron, and now Shawn's wedding.

Shawn's solo.

Katelynn watching them perform.

The funniest part of the wedding occurred after the Bally boys performance.  Their performance was pretty predictable... everyone knew that it was coming... but what happened afterwards we had no idea.  At the end of their song, the song cut and the best man said "Hold up" and the guys broke into a flash mob to the Backstreet Boys song Everybody.  It was absolutely hilarious!  I was in tears watching it.  Unfortunately my camera died during the Bally boys performance so I didn't get any pictures of it.  This was the only picture I could find of it by Facebook stalking.

But no fear, I ended up grabbing Cody's phone to take some more pictures with for the rest of the wedding.  :)  Here is Shawn getting the garter.

Katelynn getting ready to throw the bouquet.

 All the single ladies getting ready to catch it.  One of Katelynn's friends ended up catching it.

Here is Shawn getting ready to throw the garter.  He actually looked like he was going to random throw it up, but when he actually threw it he aimed it at the guy who's girlfriend caught it earlier.

 

Here is Shawn coaching him on how to put the garter on her.

There they go!

Dollar Dance time!  I can't BELIEVE how much taller Shawn is than me!  He's like a whole foot taller than me.  I was looking up at him, and I was thinking holy crap am I short!

Love this picture of dad and Katelynn!

Uncle Johnny and his cowboy hat haha.

 

Katelynn and Aunt Evelyn

Aunt Becky and Shawn

Here is another one of my favorite pictures from the night.

Another adorable picture.  You can just barely notice Jacqueline's baby bump!  We should be seeing a new little boy any day now.

These last three pictures I borrowed from Shawn and Katelynn's Facebook profiles.  Love this picture of all of the guys at Aunt Sherry's house.  Now that I look through these pictures I realize what a huge wedding party they had.

All of the beautiful ladies.  I really like that Katelynn asked Robyn and Jacqueline to be in the wedding too.  She's such a sweet heart! 

The wedding was a really fun night, and I think that most people stayed the entire night.  It seemed like the night went by really fast.  So happy for them.  I wish them years and years of happiness.