Jill & Bryan Beary's Wedding

Jill & Bryan got married in Boulder on July 28, 2013 at the Flagstaff Amphitheater.  Jill was in town for two weeks prior to the wedding and we got amazing quality time with her.  Sabrina even stopped asking where Bryan was every time she saw Jill, which she had been doing for several months prior to that.  I think they bonded over baking and berry picking.  When it came to the wedding, Sabrina was very dialed in.  More so than we even thought.  Sabrina was a flower girl just over a year ago in Cynthia and Jason's wedding.  We still read the Very Fairy Princess Flower Girl book (by Julie Andrews) from time to time that they gave her, but other than that, it really hasn't been mentioned much.  But WOW were we ever wrong to think that it didn't mean a lot to her.  She started talking about being the flower girl in Jill's wedding about 3 weeks prior to the wedding.  I had to teach her that you don't get to be the flower girl in every wedding, that's just a very special thing...and then I was proven wrong by her, as is becoming a habit!  She talked about it so much for about a week that I finally broke down and asked Jill if they already had a flower girl.  They didn't, so Sabrina was in if she wanted it.  She was thrilled and she jumped at the chance!  She started picking out her outfit weeks before the wedding, including new shoes and hair bows and her fancy gold dress.

The day of the wedding was rainy which added to the normal stress of getting two small girls ready for a wedding, and was further complicated by the very sudden and very shocking death of our wonderful family friend, Joan Owen, just the day before.  It was a day of very conflicting emotions.  Brent and I were scrambling around the house trying to feed everybody some lunch, do both girls' hair (me), paint Sabrina's nails (Brent!  Way to go, daddy of two girls), and get ourselves ready.  We made it downtown in time to catch the wedding party bus to Chatauqua and all was going very well with the photo session, the girls were being cooperative and adorable, and the weather was even clearing up!..but then I picked up Sabrina and felt some very cute, but VERY bare buns!  WHOOPS!  I looked at Brent, he looked at me...yep, I had gotten the girls dressed and completely forgotten underwear for Sabrina.  What to do?  Scrounge the diaper bag...nothing...then I remembered that our friends, Lee and Cara, were coming to the wedding and they should have some 3T underwear for Casey that Sabrina could borrow.  I caught them just before they were leaving the house and they showed up just in time to slip the underwear onto Sabrina before her big walk down the aisle.  Friends are so key when you have kids!  Sabrina did a great job at the wedding, except for one very cute diversion down row three where she started throwing petals, instead of on the aisle.  She had to be re-routed, but then did a wonderful job.  And by the time we were all walking down the aisle, the weather had cleared up completely and turned absolutely gorgeous.  We couldn't have gotten luckier.

The reception followed at The Rembrandt Yard in Boulder with a live band, great food, and wonderful dancing.  Poppy was a tremendous help with the girls and even took them home to put them to bed at our house, despite Nana's unfortunate absence (she flew to CA early Sunday morning to be with Larry).  They gave him a run for his money, but he hung in there (and very nicely lied to us so we got to stay out late and dance with friends, which was rare and fabulous).  The next morning came with some cute surprises, including Kali in the crib with no PJs (Poppy apologized profusely for that one) and a backwards diaper, but happy as can be.  Then Sabrina woke up with this line: "Mommy, when Poppy put me to bed last night, I was bursting with tears, but then I just went to bed, and he did the dishes."  Aww.  Thanks Poppy!

Here is a sampling of some of the professional photographs from the day.  We still have yet to organize ours, but these are definitely the highlights.

Jill's Wedding