The Wedding is Over

The wedding that saw so much preparation is over and I have to say it was probably the nicest wedding I have been to (at least that I can remember). 

But let me show some pictures of the days leading up to the event and then I’ll throw in a few of the wedding.

The rehearsal dinner was held at our place.  Much preparation went into getting everything ship-shape.  But then the day of – it started snowing and it was quite chilly. 

This picture shows the snow coming down. (if you look real hard)

I knew I could not seat 70 people inside my house but I figured we would try.  While I was figuring out the seating at home, Russell was at rehearsal working on the song he was singing for the wedding and Audrey was having fun practicing walking up the aisle as a flower girl.

The front of the church was decorated with brown material and paper lanterns with flowers.

Back at home I stretched out our dining room table to its full extent which would then hold 20 people, pushed the living furniture back against the walls and set up 2 banquet tables and placed 1 table in the library/schoolroom.  That was as much seating as I could provide.

Where would the food be served from?  I placed the plates and silverware on my entry way bureau (you know the bureau I’m talking about – the one with my garish gorgeous spring decor of eggs?)  I placed a small serving table in the entry way/hall and a few feet away another table in the living room.

You can probably guess what happened if you live in Arizona.  It stopped snowing and the sun came out!  But it was still quite chilly outside so all efforts were not wasted, although I was so hot from running around I could have ate outside in my short sleeves.

The mother of the groom served a lovely supper.  The family are commercial fisherman in Canada so they brought fresh pickeral for the meal.  I should amend that to say it had been frozen, which in their books causes the quality of the fish to drop.  It’s not fresh any longer.  It was still delicious to eat and I didn’t see anyone having a problem with it being previously frozen.

Oh dear, what is this?  My niece, who was one of the bridesmaids, doesn’t look so good.  But all was well on the day of the wedding when they used some make-up to cover up the effects of her fight.   

Just kidding!

Walleyball was played that night while some stayed in the house to visit and still others braved the cold to sit around the campfire.

The rehearsal dinner was held two days before the wedding so Friday was a quiet day except instead of getting everything out in preparation – it was time to put it back away.

 

 

 

The day of the wedding was beautiful.  The weather had warmed 20° with no wind.

I don’t have many good pictures of the wedding but here are a few acceptable ones.

 

The bride dealing with some last minute crisis.

 

These boys are becoming pro ushers.  They were given several compliments for how well they took care of everything.

 

Justus was the greeter.  When Audrey was first asked to be the flower girl, Justus went to his aunt and while snuggling up to her said, "I could be the ring bearer because then I could practice with Audrey."  The aunt already had another ring bearer so she figured she had better find him a job.

The get-away car was adorable – a smaller red convertible volkswagon with a "Just Married" sign across the back and some coke cans dragging from the bumper.

Serenity with her aunt and new uncle. 

 

 What a wonderful occasion!

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