Wedding Season has Begun!

On Saturday, my first cousin Frankie married his new wife Gina.

Gina looked stunning and I just loved her dress.

Frankie looked very handsome too of course!

Here I am at the church with Shea and Layla. They both were enamored when Gina walked down the aisle but Layla had to be taken out after a couple of minutes. She wasn't climbing on the pews or anything, she just talked (at her normal volume) and talked and talked :-) I had visions of the entire video of the wedding being filled with Layla's chatter so Ryan took her for a walk outside.

Here are Frankie's sisters and more first cousins of mine, Shannon and Ashley.

The bridesmaid dresses were beautiful and both girls looked great.

Below are pictures of the mariachi band playing during cocktail hour. It was very fun and festive music and made Cassie really want to dance!

Below is a picture of my favorite detail of the wedding. Frankie and Gina rode into the reception on a tandem bike. They were SO cute! Sorry for the poor quality picture.

I have a little fact fun for you now :-) Did you know? Frankie and I ended up on the same co-ed dorm floor during our freshman year in college. Crazy, huh?? And one of the boys that lived right next door to me was in Frankie's wedding party. Too funny!

Here are some of my favorite pictures from the wedding. Click on the picture to make it bigger.

And I LOVE this one of the three of us. I thought my grandpa looked so cute in his tux!

And since Layla wasn't at the reception...

Ryan and I actually got a picture of the two of us together!!!

You might be thinking, where were Layla and Shea? Well our sweet Aunt Joan joined us in Wisconsin to play nanny for Saturday night. She babysat both babies in the various hotel rooms we were occupying and had her flip camera ready to videotape the action (bottom left). Thank you so much Joan for coming and for monitoring Layla's phone calls, hee hee!!! The other pictures are Layla and Shea playing in the hotel pool.

We had such a fun time at the wedding, reception and hotel stay.

We were all sad to see it come to an end on Sunday,

but we have another wedding to look forward to in July that will be here before we know it.

Congratulations Frankie and Gina, we are so happy for the two of you!!