Heading to Virginia

My favourite cousin in the entire world, and second favourite relative only behind John, Norman's(well the world calls him Bill) daughter Kristin is getting married!  So we'll be down at the Winterham Plantation for the ceremony.

Hate trying on dresses!

and I'm going to have to wear real shoes and makeup foe a wedding as well!!

Grace

A lot of you know or know of my friend Grace. (Her blog is in my side bar as Loving Comfort Knits)  Curt and I had the privilege of being invited to her daughter's wedding yesterday.  We had a wonderful time despite only knowing most of the people from HER blog posts.  The bride was gorgeous, the groom was clearly in love, the JoP was a funny old dude.  I kinda think it would be rude to post pictures of the bride- so you'll have to check on Grace's blog for that,

Here is a picture of me and Grace before the ceremony:




And here's a picture of Grace and Tom during the reception





Tom made these gorgeous butterflies as favors:





But there was some sort of mix up and the butterflies ended up at the wrong tables (that little tag had a couples name on it)  Grace got a bit upset about it and started trying to fix it.  But the music was loud, and her legs were bothering her - so I tried to help her.... and became the weird butterfly lady.  I took a stack to the table they should have been at, got all but one couple correct, took the butterflies from that table back to Grace to find out where they should be etc etc.


At one point I couldn't find Grace and checked the lady's room - someone yelled "there aren't any butterflies in here"  As the reception wound on, it got more difficult as people started tearing the tags off.  And as more people danced - there were a lot of empty tables.  Then people started  coming up to me to tell me they didn't have a butterfly!!!  So curtis started calling me the crazy butterfly thief...


Well, there is always one nut case at a wedding, and try as I may... it's usually me....

John's wedding

Yes, I know - I promised you pictures from John's wedding. Sophia sent me some in an e-mail and then john sent me a cd.  Haven't looked at the cd yet.  But here are a few of of the e-mail.

  John and my mom.

Curt was John's best man.

Curt, me, my mom, John, the Angie

My mom, Sophia and John

Me, Sophia's sister, Sophia, John, my mom, the Angie, Curt

My mom

The last of Anna's Wedding

I realized I don't have many pics of my mom - maybe when Anna gets her digital album up I'll have more.   And I don't have a copy of the picture with the bride's side - cause we were all in it.  Here's my mom with Anna, Joe and Joe's mom.



Here's my mom with the Angie and John at her house before the wedding:



Anna & Joe feeding the ducks:





My favoritest cousin on the planet Norman:



The cake:

Anna's Wedding Cont.

I guess the Angie and I are pretty much alike - She was Anna's Maid of Honor and thus the first pair after the Bride and Groom processed back down the aisle- I was the last.  This is the face she made at Curt and my cousin Norman:



And this is the face I made at them:



This is the wedding party outside the reception:



Anna and the Angie:



Anna and my brother:

Anna's Wedding

During my blog hiatus, my sister Anna got married on Nov 26 (Thanksgiving Sat) at a tiny church that still uses the latin rite mass.

Here's Anna getting her hair and makeup done - don't you just love the wedding day socks?



She wore the Princess Kate knockoff dress - with 6 crinolines underneath because she wanted the bottom more poufy so her (size 8) waist would look waspier. (hmmmf) Her dress took up the entire back of the stretch limo!!



She should have measured the aisle of the church - her dress was as wide - my brother stepped on the dress I don't know how many times and he kept popping in and out of pews on his way up (since my dad is no longer here- my brother  gave her away)



Poor Joe (the groom) was barely on the kneeler!



I actually wore makeup and curled my hair!!



The Kiss!





I'll finish this on Thursday - tomorrow is Sensational Haiku!! (and Braun's Day!!)