Our families arrived in Homer on Sunday and we managed to fit everyone into my parents house for a yummy Easter meal.
The Maurer's helped us bottle the wine favors for the wedding. As you can see corking isn't easy, but they caught on fast!
Emily demonstrates "Maurer Power"!
The finished product.Monday-We set up the ceremony site.
Good times with hay bales, sleds, and snowshoes.
Making sure everyone has a comfortable seat with a good view.Later in the evening the ladies were rounded up for a pleasure party which morphed into bachelorette party. There were many shots (mostly good ones) some dancing on the bar and my favorite, three legged races.
All the ladies lined up for shot # 4?
Three legged races. Emily and I were doing quite well until the end when Mel and Mr. Carhart Bibs tackled us from behind.Tuesday- Lou organized a card tournament, good fun! The house was full of card players at all levels. That night the first keg of beer was consumed.
Wednesday- we had the ceremony.
The weather was amazing, we enjoyed a short snowshoe/ski out to the ceremony site.
Lou and Jaz with Peter(Lou's brother) and Nikki (Jaz's sister).
My dad performed the ceremony. Lou and I had no idea what he was going to say beforehand. It was perfect, he did an amazing job capturing what we are about and had the whole group laughing several times. Thanks Dad!
Lovely ladies! Dorothy, Alison, Heidi and Mel after the ceremony.Thursday - another amazing day.
Shawn, Alison, Melanie, Jaz and Lane on the boat to the saddle trail.While some of the group was recovering from after ceremony festivities the rest of us got on a boat and headed across the bay for hike. We went to Grewink glacier.
We were able to hike across the lake and play some capture the flag. We returned that evening to an amazing shrimp boil meal! Alison is the master of shrimp boils, Thanks AL! (and to su-chef Lane too)Friday we decorated, napped and went dancing! Our reception was a ton of fun! My Grandma Ruth was even out on the dance floor.
If you didn't get the email and want to see more pics the link is http://www.donpitcher.printroom.com/event.asp?domain_name=donpitcher&group_id=3
I recommend looking at the photographers pics to avoid shuffling through all the ones he took. You will see I spent the majority of the week laughing, it really was a good time.
Almost a month later we have to say married life is awesome. We will keep you posted on our adventuring and we look forward to having many more adventures with all of you wonderful people.
