Thankful for all the great women in my life

I'm lucky to have many wonderful women in my life. From family to friends, I've always had someone to talk to, to give me advice, to lend a hand, and to share in life's many adventures.

When Jeremy and I were choosing our bridal party, I knew that I was lucky enough to have many friends that I could ask to stand by my side. It was actually an overwhelming decision! But the more I thought about it, the more the decision became easy.  I love to travel and I'm fortunate enough to have taken some great trips over the years. On a few of these trips, I've had the pleasure of having a good friend travel with me and they were some of my favourite adventures.

When you travel, you want to pick people to travel with who you know you will enjoy spending a lot of time with. Over the past two decades, I've gotten to enjoy adventures with three great friends, Sarah, Stephanie and Courtney. All wonderful women who I treasure as fabulous friends.

Gail organized a delicious supper at a new French restaurant called the Blind Tiger

Dress shopping was a success!

Stephanie and Sarah with "Paper Courtney"

From three different trips with Courtney to watch baseball in New York, Boston and Cape Cod, to the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and studying French in Québec City with Stephanie, to celebrating a recent milestone birthday with Sarah in New York, I've made wonderful memories with these ladies that I will always treasure.

When planning a wedding, you have countless decisions you need to make. What everyone is going to wear is a big one. You can order online, shop the limited selection in the Regina or travel somewhere else and make it an adventure. We decided to do the later and ventured to Winnipeg to check-out David's Bridal.

So in August, my mom, Angela, joined Sarah, Stephanie, and I as we all traveled together to Winnipeg to shop for dresses. It turned into the ultimate girls' weekend!

Jeremy's mom, Marlene, and his sister, Gail, were the hostesses with the mostest! They organized our sleeping arrangements, made sure we were well fed and entertained all weekend.  We had an amazing time!

Unfortunately, Courtney could not travel with us as she had family commitments at home. Luckily she was able to join us in spirit (aka "Paper Courtney") during some of our adventures and was able to FaceTime with us during our appointment at David's Bridal.

Our adventure was successful as everyone, bridesmaids and both mothers, found dresses and were all very happy with our selections.  One more item to check off the to-do list! If you are wondering what they ended up selecting, then you will just have to wait a few more months and see them at the wedding.  Everyone will look beautiful. 

​Thanks to everyone for another adventure I will never forget!