L & J's wedding! (part one)

The much anticipated weekend finally arrived!  Wedding time for my brother L and his fiance J!!!  We had been looking forward to this for a long time, and I know they had too.  In the past couple months whenever I have gotten together with L, he has been happier than I have ever seen him before.  And the wedding weekend was no exception!  Both of them were so happy - not stressed and crabby and running around trying to get a million things done...oh wait, not that last one.  They did have a million things to do, but that is the nature of weddings and that is why we were all there a couple days before so that we could help!  We left after school on Wednesday so that we could be there all day Thursday and Friday to do whatever job was assigned.

(quick side note...thanks for sharing your pictures with me M&A!  their totally awesome ones in the next few blog posts are marked by *)

 

kids had to feed the pheasants in Boppa's yard first

big job for Thursday was getting the shed cleaned out and polished up for rehearsal dinner on Friday night

Dad worked hard to finish his office in the shed before the wedding.  Including refinishing this door which was from our old farmhouse.  Looks awesome here and I couldn't believe what memories rushed back when I saw it!

Part of the fun of weddings is getting to see all sorts of family.  All my mom and dad's siblings were able to come as well as some of my cousins.  So the few days before the wedding were not only spent getting ready, but spending time catching up with everyone too.

Friday's big job was decorating the reception hall.  Here are Aunt J and Uncle R helping out!

* L & J were so organized and had everything ready to go for us.  Here the kids had fun helping put tea lights in their holders.

The only off thing that happened for us over the weekend was that Carsten got sick.  He ran a fever pretty much all weekend and had bad cold symptoms too.  Nothing that kept us home from anything, but it meant a lot of holding and cuddling by momma and dadda, but also by others who braved the germs.

Aunt M got little C to sit and snuggle with her for quite a while

Friday night was the rehearsal!  Probably one of the smoothest rehearsals that we have been to as well.  As far as our jobs in the wedding, Mom and Dad got to be the proud parents, I was honored to be a bridesmaid for J and my brother M was a groomsman for L.  Very pregnant sister-in-law A took a lot of photos with their new camera, and S watched the kids, which was twice as hard since C wanted to be held all the time. 

* L & J rehearsing going down the isle!

After rehearsal, we all went back to the farm for the rehearsal dinner, which was in Dad's new shed.  It was a great place for this!  They had the meal catered by friends from Edgerton and everything was delicious.  Mom and Dad invited all of the family that was in town already to come too so it was great to be able to sit and talk with everyone. 

shed and tables nicely decorated for the dinner

Aunt J got some snuggle time with little C too!