Last weekend Randy and I headed to Chicago to celebrate Brooke and Bill's wedding. I have known Brooke for years! She is Brandi's little sister. Essentially, Brooke got to hang out with the two coolest people for most of her childhood! I would say she was pretty lucky, minus the times we told her to leave us alone and to find her own friends! HA!
Friday night we went to Giordano's Pizza for the rehearsal dinner. AMAZING pizza and now it is ALL I crave.
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| Cheers to Bill and Brooke |
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| Loved catching up with Michelle and Brandi |
Saturday morning, Randy and I were up early so we thought we would head to downtown Chicago to have breakfast and walk around! Unfortunately, by the time we arrived to the restaurant it was raining (down pouring) and we had no place to park. We eventually found a parking garage (dear lord it was expensive to park) and walked to the restaurant. Thankfully it was only a couple blocks away. But when we got there (soaking wet, with no umbrella) the wait was an hour long! We decided that we didn't want to wait and continue to pay parking so back we went. Now it was really raining and we were even more soaked. After we dried off on the ride back out to the suburbs we were hungry and I wanted to go to IKEA. Breakfast at IKEA isn't too bad. And it was Randy's first time shopping at IKEA!!! I think he liked it!
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| This was on the way back to the parking garage. Raining so hard that we had to stop so I could make sure that my contacts hadn't fallen out. |
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| Not a Trump fan but thought this was a cool building! |
After shopping and getting all dried off we headed back to the resort for some rest and get ready for the wedding!
The wedding was simply beautiful. It was at a Greek Orthodox Church (Bill is Greek). Amazing ceremony. It is always neat to see how different religions celebrate marriage.
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| Brooke was a BEAUTIFUL BRIDE! |
After the wedding we all headed back to the resort so that we could all get on the chartered bus that took us all to the reception. The reception was also amazing. Dinner was steak, baked potato, and green beans with all the wine one could want! Lots of Greek desserts made by Bill's family...delicious!
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| On the party bus! |
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| Group picture! |
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| John (Brandi and Brooke's dad) getting drinks for everyone! |
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| Love you Brookie! |
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| Meagan (one of the bridesmaids and long time friend of mine from Creston) |
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| Myself, Brandi and Michelle |
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| Myself, Bailey (Brandi and Brooke's little sister), Brandi and Erin (friend from Creston) |
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| All of us together! Love these girls! We always have a lot of fun together! |
I wish Randy and I would have gotten a picture of the two of us but we had a wonderful time. We wouldn't have been able to do this without the help of Peggy and Craig who had the boys, so thank you very much for this!
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