This last week our daughter and her husband celebrated 9 years of marriage. Katie and Andrew were legally married at the magistrates office in Jacksonville, North Carolina before Andrew’s 1st deployment to Afghanistan. We planned a marriage ceremony and celebration one year later in Seattle. That weekend in March of 2012 was packed with gatherings of family and friends who came from near and far to celebrate. We were so grateful to God that Katie’s Babushka and Dzedushka could travel to be at her wedding and that Andrew got back in time to get leave to come to his wedding ceremony!
It was a lovely wedding on a cold clear windy March 11th in Seattle on Lake Union.
Moisi, Katie’s Dzeda (grandfather), prayed a blessing over Katie and Andrew.
These were all of Moisi’s people at the wedding.
Did I mention it was really windy?
Katie and her Dzeda (Moisi) at her first Christmas and birthday.
Moisi and Nadia were able to attend our niece Debbee and Lenny’s wedding in 2013 and that would be the last grandchild’s wedding the two of them could attend before our mom was ushered into Heaven in September of 2013. They watched some of grandson Caleb’s wedding in August of 2013 from their apartment via the internets. It was too far for Moisi to attend our son Daniel’s wedding in 2015. Moisi was able to attend grandson Joseph’s wedding in January of 2017 since the wedding was in California.
A good word from Spurgeon during these trying days of the COVID-19 Pandemic:
God is with the true, the just, the holy, to deliver them; and he will deliver you. Remember how Daniel came out of the lions’ den, and the three holy children out of the furnace. Yours, is not so desperate a case as theirs; but if it were, the Lord would bear you through, and make you more than a conqueror. Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, ‘I will trust, and not be afraid’.
HT: Jeremy Leffel Photography
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
What beautiful photos. So poignant that the grandparents were able to be there, and how lovely they looked.
What a perfect dress!
What a lovely celebration! Happy Anniversary to them. Her dress was beautiful!
I don’t think I’ve seen any of Katie’s wedding photos before, so this was a treat! Such a beautiful wedding . . . and, yes, such a blessing that both of your parents were able to be there to share in the joy of the day! Wonderful memories for you all!
…such a happy time.
Absolutely love this. What a joy to see Mom and Pops smiling faces! They always were so joyful. Miss this so much.
Should have said miss them so much
So many beautiful wedding pictures of such a happy day.
An amazing celebration! Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful photos with us Ellen. What a lovely couple they make. I enjoyed each and every photo.
Katie was such a beautiful bride…such grace and joy she possesses. The wedding was so nice and you, my friend, looked beautiful. I am so glad that your mother and father were able to be at Katie and Andrew’s wedding and what a precious picture of Mosi praying over Andrew and Katie. Thank you so much for sharing.
Beautiful photos of a happy occasion.
Ellen – what a wonderful retrospective, and through the lens of Tuesdays with Moisi. Being most familiar with more recent family photos, it was fun for me to look back at the “younger” versions of all of you! Thanks for the perfect Bible verse – we all need some reassurance right now. Stay well!