more wedding

i realize i have gotten a lot of blogging mileage out of char's wedding, but it was such an important event...so many beautiful people around, lots of family, lots of creativity, lots of sweetness in general. as life around here has been resuming "normalcy" (whatever that is!), i remembered i didn't really post many of my photos and i want them here to remember, but this is the last one probably. the professional ones were amazing and you can view them here and here. it turned out to be great that i had a dress with pockets because i carried around miles' pacifier, my camera, and my phone the whole day.
the rehearsal dinner was in this old-timey tavern at the park. it was a time filled with delicious food (rooster's beak anyone?!) and lots of reflection on char and jeremiah's lives to date. to close the evening, jeremiah's dad led the group in prayer and it was beautiful. i absolutely loved his family and it made me so happy to watch charlotte join such a welcoming, humble, Jesus-loving family...in-laws are a blessing.


the flower girls and the ring-bearer (Jeremiah's nephew), all four-year olds.

char was wearing our grandma's dress from her 20s at the rehearsal here with all the bridesmaids dresses. she gave us paint swatches and let us find our own dresses. a running theme of the wedding: nothing matches exactly, but together it works and makes one beautiful whole...kind of reflective of charlotte's style.

on saturday morning, bethany and kelly and i went to shop for charlotte's bouquet. she tried to grow flowers for bouquets, but they weren't doing well so we ended up finding her some flowers that morning and the bridesmaids carried marigolds. we also enjoyed coffee samples at fresh market

first moments in her dress!

just before processing

marit and aida could hardly keep their eyes off of charlotte and kept breathlessly telling her how beautiful she was. so. cute. the flower girls did an excellent job and ended up processing with me and sitting with grandparents. my amazing neighbor nicole made their dresses and headbands and we were able to buy them in support of their adoption fund. that made us happy!



our talented artist aunt kathy made her incredible earrings as a wedding gift


immediate family of the bride

some of my dad's fam

graham and benjamin testing out the get-away car (fire truck)

there was a little miscommunication about the fire-truck...c and j got ready to leave, all the guests lighted sparklers, they mounted the truck and then realized the driver had left and not yet returned.

they waited around for about 20 additional minutes until the driver came and left joyfully...a little anticlimactic, but by that point (that is, post actual wedding), no one seemed to care.

most of these people (and some of my mom's family too) came to lunch at our house the next day before everyone left town and we ate leftovers from the week. such fun!