The Marine!
The Marine with his best man or 2nd Marine.
The Marines singing with an attentive audience.
The Marine cake topper that Katie painted. She painted both of the toppers. We decided to go with a cutting cake and several finger food desserts.
The Great Pretender!
My next post will probably be of the wedding decor.
Happy Friday everyone!
She stepped out of the dressing room and stood, waiting for him to see her for the first time in her wedding gown.
Her father walked his little girl down the aisle to “Together” by Hagood Hardy from the original music score from the Sullivan Films “Anne of Green Gables”.
Her Uncle Steve performed the wedding ceremony and without Katie knowing found a beautiful quote from Anne’s House of Dreams to read to them. “…The Bird sang until the ceremony was ended and then it wound up with one mad little, glad little trill. Never had the old gray-green house among it’s enfolding orchards known a blither, merrier afternoon.” It was a service that honored God and exhorted the young couple to listen to God’s instructions for their marriage.
My father, Katie’s Dzeda, prayed a blessing over them in Russian. Passionate words of God’s protection and blessing on their union.
The kiss, the pronouncement and the recessional. Walking out to This Will Be (An Everlasting Love).
The flower girl and the ring “barrel” as my niece Hope calls it. Hope was the flower girl and Jackson was the ring barrel. I have a post coming dedicated to just the two of them.
Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!
It’s my birthday and I’m being taken out to brunch and dinner today. My sister, niece, my grand nephew, and my grand niece are still here from California so my Daughter in law is bringing them to join in for brunch together before she takes them to the airport. Tonight Josh, Laura, Dear and I are going out to dinner.
Meanwhile back to the wedding. My friend and hairdresser Sherri came to the venue on Sunday to attend to our hair. What a treat that was. She does a beautiful job on Katie’s hair and always makes my hair behave.
Since all the sisters were together we had to make sure and get plenty of photos. This one is from oldest to youngest starting from the left. Kathy, Vera, Ellen and Lana.
Right to left oldest to youngest.
Me and my sister Lana. Partners in crime and tablescaping…
Love this photo of the Father of the Bride walking our daughter down the aisle. Thanks to Harv and Bev for this one and the next few photos.
The wedding party walked in to the theme from Anne of Green Gables and I really had a hard time keeping it together.
Dear and I really were blessed with our daughter and son-in-laws day and we were filled with joy for them and us.
We were surprised when the guests applauded as we walked out after the ceremony.
Dear thanked all our friends and family for coming to the wedding and prayed a prayer of blessing over our food and time together.
I had to add this photo my niece posted on Facebook today. Me and my brother Leonard cutting the rug!
There are plenty more posts coming with all the Bride and Groom’s special moments and more family shots, too.
Thank you to all of you who have held us up with your prayers over these last few weeks as we prepared for this day. Those prayers were answered and we felt the peace and joy we prayed for. Truly a day that love was poured down on. Katie and Andrew traveled back to North Carolina last night and should be home by now.
Blessings…
Just wanted to let you all know that all our wedding joy is complete and went off without any noteworthy hitches! God is good. I will share a lot more soon but I’m in recovery mode from all the fun and excitement we’ve been having over the last 5 days! Yesterday the majority of our guests flew home so there were at least 5 trips to the airport and back. Thank you to Steve and Lana for being our transportation leaders!
Thank you to Bev and Harv who took the photos I’m sharing today with y’all.
Bev’s birthday is the day before mine so that means today is her day. Oh dear, Bev’s birthday is actually the day after my birthday so Happy early Birthday Bev and thank you for coming to Katie and Andrew’s wedding and sharing your photos with me! Blessings! Now you have good proof that I need some more time before I post intelligently again.
The MGCC March birthday girls!
Stay tuned for lots and lots of wedding family and friend photos coming soon!
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 