Week Before the Wedding: Waxing & Harrison Ford

I was the luckiest person ever the week before my wedding because of the amazing people who surrounded me and helped me in the days leading up to the BIG day.  Tuesday night before the wedding day, one of my high school best friends, A, flew in to hang out and help.

The Wednesday before the wedding, the theme of the day was WAX.  Yep, you heard me, wax. Bridesmaid CH, Bridesmaid AT, and HSBF (high school best friend) A joined me on the adventure.

Suffice it to say, yours truly got nearly everything waxed in preparation for my wedding day and honeymoon... and A got her eyebrows waxed in solidarity.

Me, A, and CH

We began the day in Georgetown, a neighborhood in DC known for great shopping, fun restaurants, good bars, and a bit of snobbery.  After a very fast and very good priced Brazilian ($30 for less than 10 minutes of waxing, with not a hair left...), we got lunch at a great little Italian restaurant.  We paused long enough to commemorate the experience with some photos.

A, CH, Me, AT

A and CH

Me and AT

After lunch, we visited illustrious Georgetown cupcake and saw them filming an episode for the show of the same name. The cupcakes were nummy!

Since A had never been to DC before, I took her and CH on a driving tour of the monuments and museums.

CH, A, Me

A in the car

Believe it or not, after about ten minutes driving down Constitution avenue, we saw HARRISON FORD standing at a cross walk.  We have NO photos because were in utter shock.  It went like this:
Me: That guys looks like Harrison Ford (nods at tallish man in black trench, with silver-grey hair and goatee/small beard)
A and CH: Yeah, he does
All of us, as we drive closer and then past him: IT IS HIM! IT'S HARRISON FORD! HOLY SHITE!  HE JUST LOOKED AT US!  HE KNEW WE KNEW HIM!  HOLY CRAP, TURN AROUND, LET'S FIND HIM AGAIN!!!

I know exactly what I would have said to him if I had gotten to meet him: "I love you, you're so handsome, I loved you in Indiana Jones, Regarding Henry and The Fugitive. Can I get a photo and will you tell Calista hello for me?!"

We returned home after this brush with fame, and when it appeared that we wouldn't be able to start the cookie favors as we had planned, A, CH and I left to get my hair trimmed (had to rid myself of those split ends before the wedding hair do!) and then get eyebrows waxed.

A playing with some funky nails

Word to the wise: when a woman tells you that you may look ugly and have nasty chin hair in your wedding photos and you should get it waxed, and you know for a fact that yes, you do have sparse, blonde NORMAL hairs on your face (as all humans do) don't let your bridal brain give in and agree to a complete face wax.  You end up looking like this:

After waxing everything but my forehead and cheeks, the stylist promptly proceeded to tell me that I had dry skin and began rubbing lots and lots of lotion on my face.  All I could think was "if this gives me zits on my wedding day, I'm gonna kick her ass."

A got her eyebrows waxed and CH was suffering from facial sunburn, so we commiserated with each other:

We ended the day making some cookies, but I'll share that fun with you all in a coming post :)

** all photos credited to myself or amazing Bridesmaid CH

Have you ever spotted a celebrity or been conned into getting your entire face waxed?