Wedding prep!

Two days before the wedding we had to drive to Edmonton to get Jesse to the airport to pick up his niece. Jesse had to fly all the way to winnipeg to pick up Saphire and then bring her back here on the airplane in order for her to attend our wedding. Since Jesse's side of the family was so scarce we of course had to have his niece! While I was in Edmonton already, I decided to meet up with my bridesmaid Sarah and my "cousin-in-law" for some wedding prep! 

We decided to meet up go to Sally's get some hair dye because I wanted to look like the little mermaid before the wedding. It was also the perfect chance for wedding nails! 

We decided to go to the nail salon with Angel and get my nails did! They did not have what I originally wanted for a design but they were great. They were sparkly silver tips and Sarah's nails were navy blue with the ring fingers silver as accent nails. Angel didn't get her nails did with us but instead decided to get a pedicure done! My nails were done before Angel's so I decided to sit in the pedicure chair and have a little massage. Angel was making fun of me for how short I was because I put it the chair on lower back massage when it was actually a whole back massage for me haha. We went to lunch and had a great time getting prepped for the wedding, and the best part was picking Jesse up from the airport with Saphire! She was so cute and so excited to be our flower girl! 

Wedding shower!

Nancy from work decided to throw us a wedding shower! She had a really cool idea about doing a pie bake off, which meant that she would have the pie crusts ready and she put all the ingredients that go into making an apple pie in the centre of the island. We split up into three teams. Barbie, Julie and I were on one team. Garth's wife Leighann, Amy, Connie and Nancy were on the other team. Lastly all the boys were on the last team...I know a co-ed wedding shower!?! It was great fun, Connie showed Julie and I how to properly roll out a pie crust onto a pie plate. We all had a bawl doing that, played around with the flour a bit. It was truly a great bonding experience and a great way to begin to celebrate Jesse and I getting married.

While we were waiting on the pies to bake we ate wieners, explored Nancy's house and property, which was gorgeous of course. Her house is beautiful, old country style with lots of antiques. It was cool to see what she had done with the place since we had been there last, she created a greenhouse and moved the firepit up the hill. Her husband created a pathway around their property and he made a scavenger hunt for the kids to go and explore. One of the greatest places in her house was her grandkids playrooms. She had antique toys, a foosball hockey table, air hockey, etc. It was fun. The boys had more fun in there with the toys there than with the actual adults. Mark and Jesse went against the kids and little did they know that Jesse don't let anyone win at all and that includes kids.

When the pies were done we all tried each others pie. Nancy's team had the most beautiful pie, my team's pie had the most gooeyist pie and Jesse's team won with the best pie! Out of all the people that could have won we couldn't have believed that it would be the boys! Everyone's pie had something unique about it! After that we opened presents and were showered with gifts in celebration of our love, which Jesse and I were not expecting.

We are truly grateful and appreciative out of everyone that came and for our hostess that put on this great fun time in celebration of our love! It was the best wedding shower I have ever attended!