R&R - The highlights

Well as many of you have already seen on Rebecca's blog...she and Richard got married! And her blog definitely chronicles it best. But I wanted to share some highlights of my photos, now that I have my cord back. (Can you tell how happy I am to have my cord back??)

So here we go....R&R's wedding....from Elaine's perspective :)

Sarah and I flew into DC and rented a car, then drove to Fredericksburg. We ate some lunch down town, and then met at the church for the rehearsal. R&R got married in an historic colonial church. So historic, in fact, that the pews had doors on them! (I don't know if doors actually make something historic, but what the heck). Rebecca's nephew Toby said what we were all thinking...he went in the pew, closed the door, and said..."It's like jail." Here is Sarah demonstrating.

After a good laugh about the doors, the rehearsal continued. This was the part I felt most embarrassed....good thing I'm waiting til after the wedding to publicize this. I totally forgot Rebecca had asked me to do a reading. The pastor asked those who were reading to come up to practice...and I had a very odd sense that was supposed to be me. Then my memory confirmed it! Rebecca had asked me so far in advance, I clean forgot! Thank goodness she is super prepared and had the scripture printed out for us. Otherwise, my folly would have been made public at the rehearsal. Which I would imagine wouldn't make for a very calm bride. (Mental note...I should print out scripture readings for my readers too!)

Here's the wedding party...rehearsing in action!
We had a lovely dinner with other family at friends after the rehearsal. Sorry guys, no pics of that.

Here is the outside of the beautiful church the day of. You can see Toby on the stairs in his little tux in the second photo if you look closely.

And a lovely self portrait of Sarah and I with the church in the background. (Sarah was shocked at my desire to take a self portrait...but I'll soon win her over....whahahaha.)
Again I'll refer to you R&R 's blog for proper wedding photos, but here are some of my favorites.

Rebecca & her sister making their first entrance into the church.
The happy couple at the reception. I, along with many others, interrupted their dinner to take a photo. Jeff & Sunil showing off the awesome favors. Favors and centerpiece.Awesome cake! (How do you like my artsy angle?)Another awesome self portrait, this time Wendy joining us.
And finally....the get away car!
It was a beautiful wedding, and always a joy to watch good friends get married.

After the wedding, we were trying to walk of the big dinner, so we took a stroll around Fredericksburg. Here come the fun pics! First off...you know how some cities have ceramic animals all over town with various decorations? The only other time I've seen it is when I was in Spain and Bilbao had decorated cows everywhere. Well, it must be more than just cows, cause we saw decorated fish every where. Here is a sampling... (the first one was even out side the restaurant where we had the rehearsal dinner!)
And finally, I always love funny signs. And our walk around town really gave me quite the photo ops. They are all funny for different reasons.
Hmm...makes you wonder who applied last time???And last, but not least. Propaganda at it's best in the DC airport. Both shirts have the name of the candidates and the same catch phrase "Changing History!" (Note the color choices for an added bonus.)

Anyway, there you have it. R&R's wedding plus the lucky bonus photos!