My friend's wedding
I attended my friend's wedding this weekend. This was pretty cool because it was the wedding of the first friend I ever picked by myself. I think we met at preschool when we were three. We lived in the same neighbourhood and were good friends throughout childhood. We stayed in touch over the years, even though we have not lived in the same city since we were 17.
I drove home to Saskatoon on Friday to go to the wedding on Saturday. It had rained really hard leading up to the wedding, but Saturday was blessed with good weather. The wedding was on an acreage outside of the city. I got to the site in good time, and met the groom and his parents who were waiting outside the house. I also got to chat with my friend's aunts and numerous relatives.
The ceremony was touching and personal. My friend wore her mom's refurbished wedding dress. The dress had been purchased in the 1970s and had a high neck and long sleeves. They removed the sleeves and neck and made a simple shift/slip dress using the original fabric. After the ceremony, which included personal vows, we drank champagne in the garden and mingled. There were only about 40 of us there.
The rest of us continue to mingle and ate appetizers while the immediate family had photos taken in the front yard. Later on, some of us (myself included) helped with the food preparation, mixing up salads that needed to be taken down to the dining tent set up on the lawn We then clustered inside a tent to eat food that was mainly prepared by the bride and groom! The day before the wedding, the bride and groom had made about 7 salads and a poached salmon with dill sauce. They also served roast beef and vietnamese salad rolls and three kinds of cheesecake, which were catered.
After the dinner, we sat around the bonfire and talked and people played Bocce Ball. It was a really a beautiful wedding, a great chance to visit, and a reminder that weddings don't need to cost an arm and a leg or be a huge, major production to be beautiful and meaningful.
I drove home to Saskatoon on Friday to go to the wedding on Saturday. It had rained really hard leading up to the wedding, but Saturday was blessed with good weather. The wedding was on an acreage outside of the city. I got to the site in good time, and met the groom and his parents who were waiting outside the house. I also got to chat with my friend's aunts and numerous relatives.
The ceremony was touching and personal. My friend wore her mom's refurbished wedding dress. The dress had been purchased in the 1970s and had a high neck and long sleeves. They removed the sleeves and neck and made a simple shift/slip dress using the original fabric. After the ceremony, which included personal vows, we drank champagne in the garden and mingled. There were only about 40 of us there.
The rest of us continue to mingle and ate appetizers while the immediate family had photos taken in the front yard. Later on, some of us (myself included) helped with the food preparation, mixing up salads that needed to be taken down to the dining tent set up on the lawn We then clustered inside a tent to eat food that was mainly prepared by the bride and groom! The day before the wedding, the bride and groom had made about 7 salads and a poached salmon with dill sauce. They also served roast beef and vietnamese salad rolls and three kinds of cheesecake, which were catered.
After the dinner, we sat around the bonfire and talked and people played Bocce Ball. It was a really a beautiful wedding, a great chance to visit, and a reminder that weddings don't need to cost an arm and a leg or be a huge, major production to be beautiful and meaningful.