Wedding weekend away!

This weekend Josh and I headed up to St. Ignace along with a TON of friends to celebrate the wedding of a dear friend, Lois! We headed up on Thursday night so that we would have some extra time for girl talk and ability to help some with the pre-wedding stuff. I am so glad that we did. Josh and I really needed the time to talk and spend some time together and  also once everyone else started arriving the time we had with the wedding couple was greatly diminished. I must say I did enjoy every second of the wedding weekend.
We had a girls night on Friday night with a few of the girls that had come in early. Nothing like junk food, hotel rooms, and girl talk half the night to make a perfect evening.

Lois, Me and Carissa enjoying the beautiful weather on our girls night.

On Saturday we had the rehearsal in the morning and then headed to the bride's parents house were we had the rehearsal luncheon. Josh grilled burgers and hotdogs for it. He did a great job and I have to say that I greatly enjoyed my burger! After the luncheon we took over the boat to Mackinac Island with about 60 friends all there for the wedding! We biked around the island, enjoyed the view, skipped rocks, and took a walk up to The Grand Hotel. We all then got food and ate together in the park there. The pizza was delicious and the company was even better! :) To top it off Josh and I headed back and got to enjoy the hottub for an hour! The night ended with a bonfire at the groom's house. It was there that I was able to give Lois her scrapbook that we all made her. It turned out great! I loved how each person made a different page and that meant the book included such different pictures, artistic ideas, and notes. It took a lot of work and was definitely not in my gift set since scrapbooking is really challenging for me, but I am really glad we did it. I must confess that I did enjoy the process once I got started too. I think she really liked it.

A bunch of us girls on a biking break!

My hubby and I enjoying the beauty of Mackinac!

Da boys!

The girls with the bride!

The morning of the wedding us girls in the bridal party headed to the beauty salon early. I decided to just do my own hair because it is so short right now that there is really not much you can do with it. I had purchased a cute headband and I was ready to go. I did have my friend, Ana do my makeup while we were there and I did my own nails  (although silly me painted my fingernails before I took off my old toe nail polish so I had to redo everything twice).  Of course the moment the wedding day started it was over in a blink of an eye. One of my favorite moments is being called over to help with serving the cake and by the end all of us bridesmaids had cake all over us. I was laughing so hard i was crying! We ended the night in a dancing frenzy. It was so much fun!

Me, Lois and Ana. I love these women! The countryside girls together again! :)

Ann, me, Ana, and Megan- Aren't we looking beautiful!

The bride and groom! One of my favorite pics! :)

Overall it one of the best wedding weekends ever. I loved seeing all these dear women and men that I love so much celebrating the wedding of dear friends.