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The Wedding

22 Monday Jun 2009

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emily, kristen, wedding

Ahhh . . . now that the photographer has posted pictures from the wedding, I can share the link and write about all the many beautiful things that happened on June 7, 2009.  Please, please look at the photographer’s photos because they are much better than mine!

Early morning – Emily picks me and Kristen up at the Battleground Best Western; I hold box of bouquets in my lap all the way to Bridal Veil, relishing the fragrance the whole way; we are the first to arrive and set up begins!

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During set up, we all do things like put food in the refrigerator, put tablecloths and flowers on tables, and direct boys on where tables and chairs should go.  The photographer was arriving to take formal pictures before the wedding, so at some point I headed into the bathroom to re-steam dresses while the rest of the set up was finished.  Then it was time for the girls to get ready!  We had a lot of fun getting pretty while the photographer, Lauren, snapped photos of our preparations.  Formal pictures were next, and Lauren and her husband did a great job of directing us and making the pictures fun.

After photos, we were about an hour away from the wedding so we all continued getting ready [poor Emily’s mom had to have her linen jacket steamed a couple of times and eventually decided not to move her arms until the ceremony :-)].  I fretted over whether or not the rings were still in my pocket while everyone was amazed that my dress had pockets and that an entire ring box could go unnoticed in them (which, I’ll agree, is pretty amazing).  Finally, the time came to walk over to the ceremony site, so the bridal party and family walked around the lake to get to a little hut where we could hide before walking in.

When we got the signal that it was go time, Steven (Eric’s brother) and I started walking down the path to stand up with Emily and Eric on their wedding day.  Next came Kristen with two fellas, Jeff (Emily’s brother) and Michael (Eric’s other brother), then Eric with his parents and finally Emily with her parents.  After the families were seated Emily and Eric stepped up to the officiant together, where he discussed the commitment of marriage and I almost cried because I thought I saw E’s chin quivering.  The vows were beautiful, the ring exchange was flawless (I have to admit this was the most stressful part of the ceremony for me – mostly due to fear of messing up the hand off and having to crawl in the grass to find Eric’s ring).  Emily and Eric kissed and walked down the aisle as husband and wife, spent a moment together and then greeted guests on the path to the reception.  Kristen, Melody and I brought up the rear, at which point I first hugged Eric (started crying, managed to choke out a “congratulations”), then Emily (started seriously crying and just managed a longer than normal hug).

The reception was next and this also went off without a hitch.  We dined on delicious box lunches from Whole Foods, and completed a puzzle of the newlyweds (picture taken before they were weds).  Not entirely too late, Sasha finally arrived after dealing with delayed and canceled flights.  He (and I) were really sad that he missed the ceremony, but he still got to congratulate the bride and groom.

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(Please note silk capelet in photo – more discussion of this handknit coming soon)  The toasts were made with delicious Izze fruit soda!  Steven made an adorable toast to Emily and Eric, Kristen and I expressed our love, Emily and Eric thanked everyone for coming, Emily’s dad said a few words and Emily’s mom (in a surprise gesture) toasted me and Kristen (which brought on a few tears again).  Then came the cupcakes!

After cupcakes and Izzes, we took a little canoe ride.  Emily and Eric went in the “bridal canoe” while Jeff took me and Kristen out behind them.  Look at us go!  The photographer said she has done a few weddings at Bridal Veil and that Emily and Eric were the first bride and groom to get in a canoe (I’m not surprised).

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Much merriment ensued, and then it was ultimately time for the happy couple to drive away from us!  The getaway was simple (we went pretty easy on them), and clean up was easy peasy with so many people to help out.  After everything was loaded up and ready to go it was time to say goodbye to everyone, which was hard after such a fun week.

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Chapter Two

11 Thursday Jun 2009

Posted by Linden Down in knitting, Uncategorized

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bunny, capelet, emily, flowers, kristen, melody, wedding

Friday and Saturday

Well, I called this the Shower and Post-shower era, so I guess I’ll start out telling you about the Friday morning shower at Battle Grounds (a cute little coffee shop with a pun-ny name based on the town).  The shop was in an old house, and we had one of the upstairs rooms reserved.  The gathering was pretty small – Emily, me, Kristen, Emily’s mom and Eric’s mom.  After ordering some delicious pastries, sandwiches, teas and coffees, we settled down for some serious coloring.  I’m talking Strawberry Shortcake and Carebear coloring books, complete with wedding stickers to accessorize.  We each colored a few pictures symbolic of the upcoming nuptials (and a couple of sunny pictures hoping for good weather).  After coloring came present opening, and E got some very adorable gifts and cards.  See the poster we made?

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Once the delightful shower was over (thanks again to Eric’s mom), we headed off to find some ribbon for bouquets and then back to Emily’s house to hang out with Eric and do more wedding crafts.

Kristen and I were invited to attend a BBQ over at Eric’s house Friday night, and it was really fun to meet his family.  I hope Emily enjoyed having our support in the land of soon-to-be in-laws, although she seemed unfazed about it all and happy to be there!  Back at the hotel the finishing touches were put on Emily’s wedding capelet.  And, ok, I know it’s pretty cheesy, but all three of us made a buttercup (ravelry link) to go on the shoulder.  I couldn’t help being mushy this entire week, and I think I tried to make everything symbolic of something!

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Saturday morning dawned with an early morning hotel pick up from Emily to take us to Joann’s for more ribbon and Trader Joe’s to find flowers for bouquets.  The flowers from Trader Joe’s are beautiful, and after the purchase of 10 bouquets we thought we had enough flowers to make 3 lovely bouquets with extra flowers for decoration.  See, I can hardly fit in the backseat with all of the flowers :-)

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We headed back to home base (AKA Emily’s house) to prepare our bouquets, put the final touches on the wedding crafts, and steam ALL of our dresses.  Making bouquets was so much fun, and they ended up beautiful!  Here they are in the fridge with all of the shelves taken out . . .

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After bouquets, I steamed dresses for a bit while Kristen and Emily got everything packed up and ready for Sunday (can you believe E let me near her dress with a steamer?  Scary, but it worked like magic).  Before heading out to dinner, the three of us sat out on the deck for a few minutes – and then one of the most amazing parts of the trip (for me) happened.  I got a wild bunny to eat from my hand!  His (or her) name is Spot, and he/she is a very tame bunny who has been known to eat out of human hands before.  Spot is beautiful and it was a real treat to have him eat oats and sunflower seeds from my palm!

After dinner we got to see Melody (it’s been way too long), and then it was off to bed to catch our beauty sleep for the wedding day!

Next Up:  The Big Day!

Chapter One

09 Tuesday Jun 2009

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Phew! That was a whirlwind week I just had there! There is so much to talk about that I think I will have to break it up into little pieces to share. Just so you get the big picture – last Sunday was Emily and Eric’s wedding at Bridal Veil Lakes in Oregon.  Kristen and I (and as a surprise, Emily) flew to Portland on June 2 to start all of the preparations.  Here’s how the story went:

Chapter One: Preparing for the Wedding – Pre-shower Era (AKA Tuesday-Thursday)

On Tuesday, E, K and I all flew from OKC to Dallas Love Field, where we got on a plane that took us to Portland with a brief stop in Albuquerque.  We had a lot of fun with our scheduled flight activities of knitting, talking, napping and crossword puzzle racing.  Jeff picked us up from the airport and took us to E’s house for a delicious meal of mac’n’cheese prepared by E’s wonderful mom.  See us having fun in the terminal?

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Wednesday is kind of a blur – I remember going to Trader Joe’s and picking up snacks, stopping at Home Depot and Lowe’s to look for peat pots, picking up some gorgeous peonies at Whole Foods for E’s mom, a stop at Burgerville where I had delicious fried asparagus spears, a trip to Fred Meyer for grilled hamburger necessities, and a stop at Goodwill to find games for guests to play at the wedding.  That evening Kristen and I cooked dinner for the family (and by “cooked dinner” I mean we made the biggest fruit salad ever known to man while Jeff made burgers and everyone else did pretty much everything else).  After that it was time for some wedding crafting and to play our prize find from Goodwill – a hardly used Office DVD game with which Jeff and Kristen dominated me and Emily.

Thursday started out with a trip to the spa – specifically Pure Spa in Portland.  K and E both had 60 minute massages while I had a facial.  It was delightful and relaxed all three of us for the rest of the day.  After our spa trip we went to Noodles and Company for delicious pasta and then headed over to the very fancy Pioneer Place mall, with a side trip to Knit Purl (where I got some amazing alpaca yarn to commemorate the trip – I took the picture here to show off the pretty Clematis in Sasha’s back yard).  IMG_0637

After shopping, we headed straight over to Bridal Veil Lakes for the rehearsal which went quite smoothly with, as Emily puts it, “no fatal flaws” and a “small amount of chaos”.  Then it was time for the rehearsal dinner, which was held at a very cool place called Tad’s Chicken ‘n Dumplins.  Great fun was had by all, and Kristen and I got presents (photo cropped to only show the clutches because we looked very shiny)!

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Stay tuned for Chapter Two: Preparing for the Wedding – Shower and Post-shower Era (AKA Friday and Saturday)

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