Posted by Jess
18 December 2010
Last week we made our way back to the US for a long holiday visit. We came back a little early as Jason was honored to be part of a friend's wedding on Saturday the 11th. As most of you know, Saturday was the 4th largest snow storm in the history of Minnesota (or at least since they started recording such things). The 18 inches of snow that fell in 24 hours made for an interesting wedding day!
Some unusual wedding day activities included:
- Being the first guests to arrive to the church, even though we were five minutes late for the ceremony start
- Leaving the kids back at the hotel with a friend's sister (THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!) in an attempt to making it to the ceremony
- Running through 3 foot snowdrifts in high heels and nylons
- Pushing the pastor's car out from a snow bank
- Shoveling and snowblowing the church parking lot so the dozen or so guests can make their way back to the hotel (in tuxes and dress shoes of course!)
- Eating two entrees for dinner because there was so much extra food that was going to be wasted
The bride and groom were wonderful sports about it all, the day was beautiful and definitely unforgettable! We are so glad we were all able to a part of it.
The girls did it up on the dance floor all night. Ella danced every song until 11:25 when she very abruptly fell asleep on the floor. Her goal was to dance with everyone BUT mom and dad and I think she did it! Abby took a short nap after dinner and then was at it all night (it took her a little longer than the rest of us to get onto Central time). Her biggest joy of the night was walking up and down the 2 steps up to the DJ's platform. She was still going for the last song at midnight and joined us all for the singing and swaying to Piano Man. Way to go, little girl, you're a trooper!
Here are some photos from the day - my ceremony pictures aren't so great, but wanted to post the lovely bride and groom anyway!!
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| My shoes were a little wet when I got to church so I put on Jay's extra pair |
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| SHOUT! |
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| Resting up for more! |
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| making new friends |
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| Abby at 11:25 |
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| Ella at 11:25pm |
Congrats Marshall and Angie!
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Comments (2)
Your whole story about shovelling at the wedding and these pictures are hiliarious. I will be chuckling about this for hours! Hope to see you soon! -SK
i totally love this whole recap-story, but i REALLY love the two 11:25pm photos ;)