SYTTD:B.

my sorority "little sister" liz is a little outrageous.
she had a goal set by the time she got to college that before graduation she would have a ring on her finger... and that's exactly what happened.
last year after her engagement, she applied to be on the TLC show- "say yes to the dress: bridesmaids". and go figure, she got chosen to be filmed.
and of course, yours truly... her "big", is a bridesmaid.

myself, my little liz, and my grandlittle kennedy.

now they film hundreds of episodes for the show over the course of a few months and then pick and choose which ones to actually air.
we kept getting emails saying we were in, they loved us, etc. but we weren't positive we'd gotten it until we read the headline for this friday's show.

if you could only meet liz you would know why it was chosen- she's over the top and downright awesome. i promise that you would love her as much as i do.
the moment i heard her say these few things, i knew we were in...

"there will be 100% chance of snow at my wedding because i will have snow machines. it's basically going to be a winter wonderland"

"i want my bridesmaids in white. sorry kim k- i had the idea first, and my wedding will outlast yours."

liz-"no i don't have my dress picked out yet."
lori- "aren't you doing this ass backwards then?"
liz- "well no, i want to know what my bridesmaids dresses look like first so i know what to out-do."
yup, truth.

signing our release forms- heyyy camera crew in the back!

but keep in mind if you watch the show this friday... that we really are nice girls, swear, haha. and we really do love each other very much.
you see, every episode has some sort of "theme" that the network tries to portray. we had no idea what our theme would be except that we were a big group of sorority sisters.
until we got there...
liz's childhood best friend leah is also a bridesmaid. she's actually the only one that was not a part of our sorority.
so go figure the producers picked up on that.
once we were there and started talking about the wedding... it became obvious what theme they were going with for us... leah was our target.
and we knew that after this little conversation...
producers: "so leah, you and liz grew up together... best friends, all that good stuff."
leah: "yep, best friends for years."
producers: "but you aren't her maid of honor- samie, her college friend, is. doesn't that make you jealous? don't you think you should be the maid of honor?"
leah: "......... (silence) i guess i never thought of it like that...."
and there we have it. that was it.

to be honest, i'm pretty nervous as to what they're going to actually air and how they're going to make us look. reality tv is so staged and fake. i know that for a fact after this experience.
especially when they told you to "act natural"
but would grab you, turn you around, and tell you to look at someone and say your exact sentence all over again.
they hung on our every word and made it exactly how they wanted to.
pretty crazy.
but also, pretty entertaining. we got a lot of laughs out of this experience.

sidenote: i almost died in the boots i was wearing. pure suicide.
sidenote #2: lori needs more makeup.

i hope you all tune in on friday at 9:30pm on TLC!!
over and out,
j.