Wedding - reception and get-away!

The beautiful spread, thanks to Jeanie and Alvin, overlooking the river

Ed's dad welcoming the guests and giving a blessing

My dad, with his own welcome and blessing
I thought our cake was mouthwatering!
To us!



Cutting our cake
Smile!No cake smearing on face allowed!

Eat up!

Mmmmmm

Showing Jessica the flowers

Kisses for Uncle Ed :)

A few Ed and Julie pics

Ed and I got a little bored with all the picture taking, and decided to amuse ourselves by hailing a passing raft and offering free beer - turned out the guys were having a bachelor party!
Getting ready for our send off.....nice to be in t-shirt and shorts!

Going down to the riverbank

Shoving off.... Bye-bye!!

We went about 2 miles downstream before getting picked up and taken back to the house, where everything was cleaned up and we had a few more precious hours with family before we took off!

Wedding - friends

Though we had an intimate setting, there were some wonderful friends who made the day extra special!

Dakota, a dear friend and mentor from college - we led a lot of Bible studies together!

Richard and Heather, us with their son, and Jon and Kelly - friends from church and choir

Some of Ed's friends from tennis and poker

Meghna, a colleague from work, and her family

Rick and Rina, Ed's friends from work and tennis

Meredith, a dear friend from work

the Borsts and Gary, friends from church

Aruna and Jenny, favorite former roommates :)

Alvin, who did our flowers

Jeanie - our next door neighbor who did our food

Rob, my supervisor from EIS

Adam and Bobbie, friends from work, with their daughter Mara

Sherstin and Steve, who are getting married soon!

David and Laura, also getting married soon, and Kevin, who got married the next weekend!

the "Smelly Creek Boys"

the Tarpleys - much fun to have them!

Wedding - family

It was so precious to have so many of our family at our wedding!

my beautiful niece Jessica

Ed's family - his brother Warren, Dad, and Mom

with my parents

my sister Laura, my Grandma Rowell, me, my mom, Jessica, and my sister Christy

Sisters!

9 All the sibs (and niece!)

With Ed's parents

All of the extended family present

my parents

Ed's parents

with my Uncle Doug and Aunt Jeanie

my beautiful Grandma!

with my uncle Ted and Aunt Cathy

Aunt Gayle, Aunt Jeanie, me, Grandma, Mom

my cousin Stacia