The home looked pretty darn good if I say so myself. Mom came over multiple days to help take care of the kids so I could clean or paint and also helped me clean the week of the wedding. Diane, Aundrea (Dave's wife) and Lori (Diane's sister-in-law ) came over the day before to help decorate. We pulled all the crystal down from my wedding as well as my kitchen plants and much more and put in the wedding flowers and colors. We have a crab-apple tree out front that also dropped these perfect little crab apples. We filled the bowls, vases, and candle holders with water added some clear rocks Diane had brought and added the crab apples for the perfect color. We lighted floating votive candles that morning in every dish and it was a beautiful effect.
The bride decided the morning of the wedding she HAD to get her hair cut so she didn't get to the wedding until 15 minutes prior to it suppose to be starting. But it is her day so we all waited for her. We took some pictures while we waited.
Here are Rick's brothers, Rob, Groom-Alex, Rick and Dave.
I teased them about looking so serious and got a more natural smile.:)
Here are Groom-Alex with Dennis and Diane.
Here we are visiting while we wait.
I was wrestling with Andrew during the ceremony and Rick was taking video so we didn't get any pictures of the ceremony. We'll have to wait for the photographer's pictures for that but here is our bride and groom after the wedding.
Medalith was beautiful. The morning her bride's maid,
Daniella, thought of video chatting with Medalith's mom in Peru for the
ceremony. So Aundrea got Rick's laptop set up and sat in the front row
so she could see everything. Dennis even introduced all of us to her
mom so she could meet everyone. Daniella is from Peru and she was a
bride's maid along with Laura.
Rachel and Isabella, Alex's and
Medalith's daughter, were flower girls.
They had beautiful dresses made
for the day.
As Rachel was walking down the isle doing her petals she was very careful to do one and only one petal at a time. She knew all eyes were on her and wanted to do well. Way to go Rachel!
The Somer's Bishop, Bishop Mark Quinn married them. My sister, Kristen, played the flute in the ceremony. She is a very accomplished flautist. She did a great job! Dennis gave a father's blessing and everything went great.
After the ceremony we went over to Lou Malantis for lunch...yum! We then went to the reception at the church. Diane has some wonderful friends that took the reception on due to her health and almost surgery (that will be another blog). It looked great and we took some of the lovely centerpieces Andrea put together from out home and displayed them at the church.
The first part of the reception was a receiving line and yummy food. They then had cutting the cake and a Peruvian custom of the ring cake. All the single girls, we included the boys for numbers, gather around and pull a ribbon out of this special cake. The person who pulls the ring at the end of the ribbon is suppose to be the next one married. It was a fun new tradition for us to see.
After that there was dancing. I think Rachel and both our Andrew and
Dave and Aundrea's Andrew danced the whole hour. Here are some
pictures.
Our Andrew was stuck to me the whole evening so we had to make him part of the dancing scene.
Rachel called Dave's Andrew her prince and they danced like this the whole night. They never were apart for more than a potty or food stop.
Andrew had his own crazy moves.
Anson on the dance floor!
We had a great day. The kids were real troopers sticking it out that week. We banned all toys from the main level for several days and they had the whole wedding day festivities to happily be part of. We rewarded the boys extra Wii time and Rachel a hot bubble bath for their great behavior. At the end of the day Aaron asked if they could play with toys again tomorrow. What a cute good boy!
The days following the wedding we said good bye to all our family and friends that had come in for the wedding. Here is a picture of our kids with their new cousin Andrew. We had a blast with him and all of our kids LOVED having him here with us.
Long blog I know but it was GREAT BIG FUN!
