#82 - attend the weddings of at least three couples/friends

Not only did I get to attend this wedding, but I got to be in the stinkin' bridal party!

Alaina (center) and bridesmaids. Yes, Melanie, I heartlessly ripped this picture right off your Facebook.

We--the bridesmaids and Lainy, that is--have all been great friends since ninth grade, and some of us go further back than that. (Lainy and I became best friends in eighth grade, and used to talk about how she and I would each be a bridesmaid at the other's wedding. How's that for fortune-telling?) We all live in different places now, so spending a few days with these ladies was indescribably fantastic! So many of my other close middle/high school friends (including the groom!) were at the wedding that we called it our mini-reunion. It's amazing how you can be apart from people for so many years and then just pick up like you never left--I definitely hit the jackpot in the friend department. They're incredible people. I was too busy having the time of my life to take many pictures, but trust me when I say it was SO WORTH the 18 hours spent driving there and back.

The bride was beautiful, the ceremony was beautiful, the weather was beautiful, and all my friends are still beautiful. What more could you want in a wedding?

Photos of the wedding and our fabulously adorable retro-inspired bridesmaids dresses can be found at Michelle Marie Photography--even the wedding photographer was a friend from high school! I told you it was a reunion.

1/3 down for #82. I'm expecting those wedding invitations, people! Get on it!

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