Kelly and Brad's Wedding

 

My oldest friend Kelly got married over the weekend, and I had the privilege of standing up to support her as one of her bridesmaids.

Kelly is an amazing woman, loving and faithful, beautiful inside and out - Brad is one lucky man! The wedding was simple and beautiful, and the reception was a lot of fun. 

Both our girls helped as flower girls, as well as Abby, the daughter of Kelly's friend Adrianna. The girls all did great at their job - Cora and Abby were quite a bit quicker down the aisle than Violet, however. 

Violet slowly, slowly, step-by-step, walked up the white runner, dropping petals as she went (nearly stealing the show). 

 Here's Kelly and Steve, having their father-daughter dance. Such a happy moment!

A friend of Kelly's family made lots of these signs with various "loving" phrases, and we all were encouraged to take photos next to any that were meaningful to us, for a scrapbook for Kelly and Brad.

We tried so hard to get a nice family photo with this sign that states "All because two people fell in love." This was the best one of many takes... so sad!

We had better luck with Stace and me holding, "the best is yet to come," which is the song Stace and I had our first dance to at our own wedding nine years ago.

 Here are my parents with one of the signs; they just celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary this month. Congratulations to them! (And thanks, Dad, for most of these photos!)

Cora started off the money dance with Brad, who is a great guy who we look forward to getting to know better.

Cora and Violet were going strong late into the night, dancing up a storm. They were such good girls all day; no meltdowns, hardly any crying. Stace and I couldn't have been more proud of them.

Violet got a little nap in the car between the ceremony and reception, thanks to Aunt Patty, who sat with her. That enabled her to stay wide awake until we got home close to 11 p.m.!