The wedding is done, the guests have left and we are back in our trailer getting ready to move on next week. It has been awhile since my last post so let me bring you up to date of the goings on over the past week.
It started on the 17th when our middle daughter, Kelly, flew in to assist in the wedding planning. She was the maid of honor. On Tuesday our youngest daughter, Kim, flew in. They were involved organizing the private bachelorette party on Thursday and the open bachelorette party on Friday at Katie’s work.
On Thursday, Tyler (the groom) had planned his bachelor party to start with going to a spring training baseball game, followed by bowling and then some bar hopping. I attended the baseball game but passed on the other activities to entertain guests of ours that had arrived.
Friday was rehearsal day with a dinner to follow. This was the first real chance we (Fran and I) had to meet Tyler’s parents. We had been exchanging emails for many months but had not met them as they live in the Seattle area.
Saturday was the big day. We do not have any of the professional pictures yet but I will share with you some of the ones we took.
My daughter and her husband are unique and the ceremony was a little less traditional but representative of their talents and tastes. The presider for the ceremony was a college friend of Katie’s who was ordained via the internet. The ceremony was read from an iPad and the vows, written by Katie and Tyler, were read from a Kindle. The entire event was trended on twitter at #storiedwedding. Instead of a cake there was pie and Katie had a “bride dude” as a bridesmaid. He was a long time friend from high school.
It was a great evening and we had a lot of fun. It was very emotional as Katie is our first born and the first in the family to get married. It was nice to have friends and family take the time and money to fly in and share the weekend with us.
Congrats!! I love the 'non traditional' aspect of it all. Can't wait to see more pics. And just because she was your first born wont make the next two any less emotional!
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