... that it was almost wedding time?

We had so much wedding prep and so little time!!!

First priority: Make absolutely ridiculous amounts of puppy chow with the cutest little helper you can find.

CHECK.

Kell and I made 5 gallons, and I believe Francie and Katie also made 5 gallons each. We know how to party.

(Side note: I'm pretty sure that approximately 3 gallons of it were actually eaten at the reception sooooo... Let's just say we were giving bags away to anyone who would make eye contact with us at the end of the night. 15 gallons of chex mix well spent hahahahaha)

We had all decided to stay in Orange County the night before the wedding, since we had the wedding dinner down there the night before and the wedding in the morning. Matt and I scored a great hotel room and dropped off all of our stuff with just a little bit of time left over to relax... or so we thought. After a few frantic phone calls and a little bit of wild goose chasing running errands with Mom, we finally headed over to the wedding dinner at Lucille's BBQ.

(Once again, Jake, it was NOT our fault that we were late. Okay? Okay.)

These two.

All the heart eyes.

Matt and I hid in the back with the other naughty kids and just ate ribs to our hearts content! Jake and Jacky traded in their wedding toasts for wedding roasts and it was quite an entertaining evening. Just Jake and Jacky's style and such a great way to have fun!

I'm soooooo glad Cait is back to ruin all of my pictures.

Blickensisters!

After the dinner, Jacky needed us girls to go over to the house to help with some last minute wedding stuff. So we headed over to her house to find this:

All of her friends feverishly making bouquets and corsages in the dark. The power in Jacky's whole neighborhood was out! We helped as best we could for a little while by cell phone/candle light, then finally gave up and hauled everything over to a neighbor's house who had power to finish the job! I could not believe how much of this wedding Jacky and her friends had done on their own... Probably saved them a fortune! I was pretty impressed. But also pretty tired. We finished waaaaaaay too late and stumbled back to our hotel rooms completely exhausted. Let's get to the actual party already!