Do you take this man (very quickly)

We went to a wedding this afternoon/evening, my cousin's daughter. An outdoor wedding, in August. The overcast with potential for thunderstorms was actually a BETTER option than I thought we would get.

Just as the officiant asked if anyone had any objection, there was, I kid you not, a big rumble of thunder. Partly due to weather, partly due to the bride being a high school gym teacher (Go! Go! Let's get moving, people!) it was the SHORTEST wedding I have ever attended. They did all the Stuff, and it was clearly heartfelt, but by damn they did it briskly. We sat in a gentle rain for the last ten minutes of the service, then everybody hightailed it to the reception, which was indoors.

   My most elaborate sewing project - by a WIDE margin - was my wedding dress. I was so happy with how it turned out. Now most of my sewing is mending torn clothes or re-sizing them. I’d like to make something else new and big and fancy, but I don’t really need any clothes like that these days!

   One of my favorite pictures from the wedding, as I try to get my new sister’s veil to stay put with bobby pins that are too small. I couldn’t even figure out what I was looking at when I first saw the photo; I always forget how much I look like the Addams Family’s cousin It from the back.

We made it through

   We made it through the wedding last Sunday, even though the weather was less than perfect. We were glad we did it - my brother has waited ‘til the age of 44 to get married, and he (and his lovely fiancé) certainly deserved a beautiful day. I’ll say this, though, having it at the farm was was exhausting, and it took me most of the week to feel human again. My daughter and my new sis-in-law worked all day for two days to get the decorations done - in a harvest theme of course - and it all looked magnificent. I brought a good bit of it inside afterwards and put it around the house here. I usually don’t decorate for fall a whole lot, too busy with other stuff.

  I’ll have to try to get a picture of the dried flowers arrangements later - they were adorable. We put little fairy lights inside the pumpkins, and the fact that the day was overcast actually made them stand out much more.