{"id":14145,"date":"2013-06-08T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=14145"},"modified":"2013-06-08T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T07:01:49","slug":"mother-of-the-groom-diaries-the-day-before-the-big-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/mother-of-the-groom-diaries-the-day-before-the-big-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mother-of-the-Groom Diaries: The Day Before the Big Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The day before the wedding we picked up Peter at his place in suburban Minneapolis and headed over to the local Men’s Wearhouse, where he and Jon tried on their wedding tuxes. Photos by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

In a little more than twenty-four hours our son Peter would be a married man. But first, he and Jon had to pick up their wedding duds at the local Men’s Wearhouse. Our daughter spent the afternoon getting fit in the hotel gym. My dress and accessories were ready, so I took pictures.<\/p>\n

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Jon’s vest, shirt and jacket fit just fine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Purple<\/a>
The bride<\/a> chose purple as her color and Men’s Wearhouse had vests and neckties in a handsome shade.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ivory shirts complemented the vests and ties worn by the men in the wedding party. Photos by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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His wedding clothes in order, our son Peter was a very relaxed groom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Young<\/a>
Christina got a workout in at the Marriott City Center gym on the day before her brother’s wedding<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Writer<\/a>
My outfit was complete: Purple knit gown by Lauren<\/a> from Bloomingdale’s, black stretch sandals by Impo from DSW. (Cheaper and more comfy than the the silver sandals<\/a> I’d been looking at.) The gown was less than $200 and the shoes around $40 — so I splurged and bought myself the earrings and bracelet<\/a> by Swarovsky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In a little more than twenty-four hours our son Peter would be a married man. But first, he and Jon had to pick up their wedding duds. My outfit was already hanging in the closet. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[146,34,981,29,982,942,56,983,984,985],"class_list":["post-14145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-changing-family","tag-christina","tag-dont-miss","tag-groom","tag-jon","tag-menswearhouse","tag-mother-of-the-groom-gown","tag-peter","tag-swarovsky-jewelry","tag-tuxedo","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}