05-18-10
The Nicest Thing I Have Ever Done///Pt. 1
This past weekend, my family and I were invited to what shall henceforth be known as The Nicest Thing I Have Ever Done, aka my [step] cousin’s wedding weekend at Gorham’s Bluff in Pisgah, AL.
Over the next few days I’m going to be sharing the details of this wedding, starting back in November when we got the Save the Dates (please note my mad photoshopping skillz).
The invites included the story of how the bride and groom met, an outline of the weekend’s events, and lodging information. Of course, since we’re family, we got to stay on the property all weekend. For relatively free, I might add…that might be rude to mention but I don’t care because it just made it THAT much more awesome for me.
Then in about February, we got the actual wedding invitation (these are the same, but I wanted to show the cool wrapper thing with my NAME ON IT. i love things with my name on them):
A few weeks later, the invitations for the various events of the weekend began to arrive:
We left Friday morning (my sister and I sleeping in the back seat like we’re 7 and 10)
and met the Father of the Bride (aka the Brother of my Step-dad) and the rest of the family before caravaning (i think i made up that word) up to Gorham’s Bluff. On the way there we find out we not only have our our house for our rather small family of 4, but we have 2 golf carts (one for my parents, one for sister+me) for transportation purposes. Because, I mean, who wants to walk DOWN THE STREET in heels, right? I had never driven a golf cart before…and let me tell you, I’m not very good at it. Perhaps because I insist upon taking pictures/drinking/laughing my head off at the ridiculousity (i think i made up that word too) of it all while driving as fast as possible.
So, our house.
The one with the wrap around front porch and a balcony AND a screened in back porch? Yeah, it was beautiful. See for yourself:
When we went inside, we were greeted with these lovely picnic baskets:
Containing maps, an official schedule (complete with the wedding planner’s phone number), and SNACKS!
Love the details somuch.
For tomorrow: The Bridesmaid’s Brunch! Hint: cotton candy FTW!
