The Krammerer Wedding Part Two

May I please just start out by saying that this was probably the best wedding ever? True story.

The day started with a little continental breakfast (thanks best western for my toasted bagel with two cream cheeses, yogurt cup, OJ & Coffee) followed by showering and blow drying our hair in our hotel room. After that Kate, Courtney, Kristina and I headed over to the Ritz to Danielle’s sweet to finish getting ready with her, her mom and the rest of the bride’s maids.

Danielle was a little nervous earlier that morning (as is to be expected of any bride) but seemed to be totally fine once she started getting her hair and makeup done. I have to admit, she was way more collected than I imagine I will be on my wedding day (you know, if I ever have a wedding day).

Danielle getting her hair+makeup done:

Danielle and the MOH, Carly:

Danielle’s mom taking the amazing dress to Danielle:

Me, Kate, Courtney and Kristina in Danielle’s sweet, all ready for picture time:   

I did my own hair by curling it all then sticking it in a low, curly, messy, side bun. I think it turned out really well. I wish I would have taken a better picture. I also curled Kate’s hair (the brunette in the above picture), finished Courtney and Carly’s hair and curled Tietjen’s hair. I was on a roll!

After we were finally all ready, and had enjoyed some (very expensive, very delicious, room service) fruit, cheese, crackers and champagne it was time to head downstairs to take some pictures.

On our way down, when we stepped off the elevator we ran into Simon Baker who was also apparently staying at the Ritz Carlton at Half Moon Bay. Danielle had a totally star struck moment in her wedding dress saying “hiii”i to him. He then congratulated her on her big day. Gush!

When we finally made it down to the hotel lobby everyone was staring at us. Probably because Danielle looked so amazing.

We got into the hotel’s escalade and were taken to the picture site. Baller status, right? haha.

The place where we took our bridal party pictures was really, really pretty. It was right near where the wedding would take place later that afternoon, overlooking the ocean:

Isn’t she the prettiest? 

After pictures were over we went back to Danielle’s hotel room for more cheese and crackers and champagne. We also listened to Danielle read us her vows (since that part of the ceremony would be private – a friend would be playing a song while they recited their vows to each other without microphones). They were so sweet and perfect. Not overly gushy. A perfect representation of their relationship. I seriously love them!

 

After that it was time to head down to Mullins, start to get really nervous, and wait for the wedding to begin…

The Kammerer’s Wedding Weekend (Part 1)

Oh my you guys, I spent the weekend in Half Moon Bay, CA (about 30 minutes west of San Francisco on the coast) for Danielle and Steffen’s wedding weekend! So amazing!

I flew from SeaTac to SFO on Friday morning, then waited for Kate in San Fran at the airport. When her flight got in we waited in a humongo line for our rental car then went on our way to half moon bay. We checked in at our hotel then immediately went to dinner at Half Moon Bay Brewing Company. It was pretty romantic. I had beer (true story, I just typed in I hate Beer – I think my liver is speaking for me right now), she had wine, I guess that means I was the guy on our “date”.

Next we pit stopped at Safeway for some vodka (I LOVE that you can buy alcohol from a grocery store in California! LOVE!!) and some snacks (for later, of course), then went back to our hotel room to wait for everyone else to get in. Not soon after, we got an invite to go over to a house that some of the guys had rented. Side note: Danielle was my sorority sister and Steffen was also in a fraternity at UW – ALSO they have been together since their sophomore year in High School though – crazy, right? Anyway, we went over to the frat boys’ house to play some beer pong (keeping it fratty, of course) and wait for Danielle and Steffen to arrive.

 

After some fun times with the guys we decided to head back to the hotel room to get some rest so that we would be ready for our 9am rehearsal the next morning.

Rehearsal was super quick and painless.

After rehearsal, Kate and I were STARVING (obviously) so we went to the Garden Deli and Cafe in downtown Half Moon Bay, and OH MY GOSH, I got the MOST amazing sandwich. If you are ever in Half Moon, you’ve GOT to go there:

After our sandwich we went back to the hotel and waited for our other sorority sisters to arrive. Once they did they immediately wanted a nap so Kate, Rachel and I went to Courtney and Carly’s room to hang for a while until it was time to get ready for rehearsal dinner.

We (Kate, Me, Kristina and Courtney) ended up getting to rehearsal dinner a little early and decided to have a glass of champagne at the bar:

Then when it was time to start the dinner we headed outside to where they had the tables set up. Everyone was kind of late due to the fact that the guys were playing a game of golf until 6 minutes before the rehearsal dinner started. WHOOPS!

But they got there and everything was good. Don’t Danielle and Steffen just look amazing?

Of course I made Steffen give me some love too :)

We sat down to an amazing seafood dinner (complete with many, many glasses of wine).

My soul mates (Josh and Courtney – yes, both of them are my soul mates) getting ready to chow down:

After dinner we hung out outside:

   

And they guys had even set up some golf game where you tried to hit the ball into these floating things in the pond. Needless to say, the girls weren’t very good at it:

 

Then I took these pictures with Josh (soul mate, who I also walked down the isle with), who can’t keep his eyes open:

Then I was all, HERE, I’ll even SHOW you how to do it:

Whatever, you’re never going to get it…

Now you’re a supermodel and I’m a motherfuckingbear, RAWR!

And then I just kept telling the bartenders to “Fill it up, yeah, all the way to the top, kthx” and we took some more pictures:

Some of them were even nice, like this one of Danielle and I:

Then we decided that Courtney could be our honorary sorority sister. Obvi we took a crown pic, Zeta love!

After that I figured that maybe it would be fun to take Prom Pics with all of the men in Danielle’s family starting with her grandpa:

Then her brother, Michael, who is RAD by the way:

 

And then, of course, her dad:

Then her dad was really excited about partying it up, so we took shots together (Eric (the best man), Me, Kate and her dad (who took a shot of wine, because he doesn’t do shots):

 

And then when I woke up the next morning, this was the last picture that had been taken on my camera and I thought to myself, that was the most fun night I’ve had in long time. I LOVE this.

Then after all my fun last night my stomach started calling to me, and clearly it was time for some continental breakfast (bagel with TWO things of cream cheese – Josh agreed, soul mates – Yogurt, juice and coffee, BOOM) before heading to Danielle’s bridal sweet to get ready for the WEDDING!!! But that’s a story for my next post…

Pointlessness & Clothes

Do any of you have an article (or a few) of clothing that you really really love but rarely wear? I definitely do. Maybe I like them all because I spent too much money on them? I don’t know. But one of those pieces of clothing for me is a dress (it’s a little fancy for one and  for two, well, it’s a dress and I live in Seattle), one is a silk shirt (I don’t wear that one often b/c it’s so hard to clean and I’m bad about going to the dry cleaner) and the other is this little cover up thing:

I don’t know why I have such a hard time wearing it. Maybe because it’s a short sleeve wrap thing and that’s just a little awkward. Maybe because it’s gray-ish so I feel like I can only wear it with black/white tanks and I don’t have many that I use for anything other than layering. Also it’s too long (in the front, the back is normal) to wear with shorts. So, I don’t end up wearing it often. But when I do I get REALLY excited. And today was the perfect day to wear it. It was warm-ish here in Seattle and I re-discovered this long white tank in my closet. Score.

I’ve been really good at pointless posts lately. I’m sorry friends. Forgive me?

Maybe I’m having such a hard time because my mind is on the wedding I’m in this weekend. I leave SeaTac at 9:55am tomorrow. I still need to finish packing. My attention span is like that of a 2 year old who just drank some coffee. I don’t know what’s going on. But I can tell you this, it’s probably partially because I’ve had a really hard time re-adjusting to school these past two weeks. Blah.

Ok off to finish packing.

You can look forward to real, exciting posts after the wedding. Pinky promise!

XXOO

Gurl, you fine!

And tonight I’m doing a face mask so that my skin can be all awesome and beautiful for Danielle and Steffen’s wedding in Half Moon Bay this weekend (have I mentioned lately that I’m soooooo excited?).

Kylee was definitely jealous of how good I look (even though we both have in matching messy buns right now – keeping it classy):

I’m pretty sure you could scare little children with this picture. If you know, you were the type of person who liked to scare little children.

Also this post has no point. I’m just bored and tired. Very tired. But not from lack of sleep. Maybe from lack of good sleep? Someone please help me!