Wedding festivities!

Once upon a lovely Sunday evening in September, Donovan and Sabrina got married :)

As promised*, here are some pictures from their wedding weekend (apologies in advance for the poor photo quality, particularly regarding the last bunch).

The girls started out the weekend with pedicures:

Sabrina, Everly, Birdie, and Jubilee

The evening before the wedding, we made the lovely

30-minute drive to Independence, TX for the rehearsal.

Note: Sabrina's sister Bunny stood

in for her at the rehearsal.

Post-rehearsal, Sabrina and Jube looked lovely;

Paul and Birdie pretended they were in a band.

Bridesmaids

Birdie, me, and Everly

 Almost married!

Sabrina and Donovan

At Cenare for the rehearsal dinner

me, Sabrina, and Everly

 Wedding Day!  Getting ready at Eyrie Park.

Sabrina, me and Samuel, Jubilee

Willin and Everly

Trying to figure out how to tie the sashes;

these pictures make me laugh :)

 Beautiful Birdie

Time to put on her wedding dress;

she was positively giddy with excitement :)

Opening her gift from her husband-to-be--

a beautiful necklace from Anthropologie.

Time to head to the church!

Willin, Samuel, and Jubilee, Sabrina

The ceremony

(photos courtesy of Paul)

Quick photos before the reception

 The cakes!

Having fun at the reception, which was held

at the Antique Rose Emporium. So beautiful.

Off they go, amidst a shower of rose petals.

 Once most of the guests had departed, we took

advantage of the empty dance floor.

Some got a little crazier than others...

Around 1am, after cleaning up...soooo tired...

But happy :)

Congratulations, Donovan and Sabrina!  It was such a blessing to be a part of your special day--and even more, to be part of your lives!  May God richly bless your marriage; His faithfulness is already so evident in each of you and in the way He brought you two together.  Love y'all!

*This shall forever go down in history as the day that I actually followed through, in a timely manner, on a promised blog post.  I think I should get a gold star.