Oh. My. Goodness. Gracious!

We are 4 DAYS AWAY from the big day — cannot believe it! Things are really falling into place and STARTING to feel real… it’s just taken this long to get to this point! I can’t believe we’re in wedding week. WOW!

While I’m rushing about getting everything last-minute done before all our family members come into town (YAY!!!!!), today I’m going to discuss with you the layout of our evening.

Prior to the day’s main activities [approximately 11AM], my bridesmaids are coming over in the late morning to get ready with hair and makeup. We’re taking over the upstairs of my parents’ house and master bathroom for all our prettying. Drew and his entourage of boys will be here in the early afternoon [~2:30PM] to put on their dress shirts and tie bowties (he’s giving a tutorial at the rehearsal dinner on Friday night –  Yippee!).

{From Pinterest}

Shortly after their arrival, our photographers and videographers will show up to take a few getting-ready shots of us [~3:15PM}. Then onto our first look!

I’m not completely positive where we’ll end up doing our first look (we have all of my family’s farm to go wherever we want), but I want it to be private and pretty. I don’t know if we’ll have him facing me or do the “turn and look,” but I imagine a good deal of tears will be in store. :)

{from Pinterest}

Then the two of us will traipse around the fields taking our pictures together (I’m hoping for some Gone With the Wind-esque candid shots), shortly to be joined by the rest of the bridal party [~4:15PM].

{From Love & Lavender)

Family shots will commence around 5PM, and then we’ll eat dinner over here before we head to the venue for any final preparations/pictures there (if we can squeeze them in), etc.

Prelude music will start at 6:30PM by our amazing friends on violin and piano. Guests will be greeted at the door with their escort cards (so excited for these!!!) and ushered to their assigned seats by groomsmen. This is the time I’ll hopefully be praying with my bridesmaids and gearing up to finally DO THIS THING!!!! {I’m giddy just thinking about it!!!!!}

{From Pinterest}

We’ll be lining up around 6:50, and then making our way downstairs for our processional to the song Drew wrote me a few years ago, “Finding Hope.”

Our ceremony should be fun and beautiful and emotional… anticipating it to last around 35 minutes(ish). Then we’ll take our extended family pictures, any last shots we want around the arbor, and then family and bridal party will go outside with everyone else for our mini cocktail hour out on the porch. Drew and I will be heading upstairs to have a moment to ourselves to freak out and jump up and down about being MARRIED!!!! (I imagine there’ll be a good deal of gawking at our new rings, too! I’m especially missing my engagement ring right now since it’s in the store right now getting rhodium-dipped and cleaned to perfection for the big day!)

{From Jerry Yoon}

Guests will come back in about thirty minutes later and make their way back to their seats for Drew and I to be announced down as husband and wife (EEEEEEE!!!!!). We’ll cut our cake, and then everyone will be free to grab as many sweets as their bellies can hold and fancy-lovely coffee drinks!!!

We’ve allotted for around 20-30 minutes for everyone to mingle with their desserts, let Drew and me make our rounds of seeing people, and getting settled in before we do toasts. My Matrons of Honor and Drew’s Best Man will be saying a few words, and then Drew and I will thank everyone for coming and making all my wedding dreams come true. :)

{From Snippet and Ink}

Then onto dancing!!! Drew and I will kick off our First Dance and get into all the formal things (with a few fun moments spattered in), and then the dance floor will be open for all!!!! We’re seriously hoping everyone will stay a long time and dance all night with us:  I am never one to turn down an all-night dance party, so you bet the second I get the chance, I will be out there like the best of them.

SO EXCITED!!! I can’t believe it’s wedding week and all of this is actually going to go down in just four short teeny tiny days. So excited for all the special details I’ve spent months (and sometimes years) creating and planning!!! There are so many different moments I’m just thrilled to death about… can’t wait to live it all in such a short amount of time!!!!!