6.18.2006

Better Together

Congratulations to Andrea Johnson and John Williams!

This was a biggie - I've known Andrea since she was 12, and we were put up in the same house during our crazy trip to Belarus. She and I have seen a lot and done a lot since then, and now she's all grown up and married to a wonderful Englishman. I was also asked to sing during the signing of the registry. I was only too happy to oblige.


The ceremony was beautiful. It was done on a veranda at La Salle Park in Burlington. The bridal party walked down the aisle to Jack Johnson, and Andrea came in to the ukelele version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".

After photos and a cocktail hour, we went inside for the dinner reception. The food, the speeches, and the dancing was great. It was an amazing evening.

When the happy couple was ready to call it a night, they walked to the getaway car through a tunnel of guests holding sparklers.

Much love, John and Andie!

6.12.2006

Marity!

Congratulations to Matt Wilkinson and Charity Brooks!
These two got married in a lovely ceremony this past Saturday that included the groomsmen walking in to the Top Gun anthem, a program that looked like a magazine, and a perfect little slip of the tongue that resulted in the title of this post.

Charity looked beautiful.


The life of the party!


The donut and cupcake wedding cake


The happy couple:
Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson!

6.04.2006

.overwhelm.overwhelming.overwhelmed.

This weekend has felt like a lifetime of happenings packed into 3 days. So much has been going on that I haven't had much of a chance to sit, breathe, and let everything sink in. Take today, for example: I woke up, went to church, went to lunch with my family and family friends, came home for 30 minutes, drove my sister to work, ran errands, did ridiculous amounts of laundry, got caught in an almost inescapable and ridiculous conversion attempt by a crazy religious fanatic (at the laundromat!?), did some cleaning, ate some dinner... and now it's almost 10pm. You get the idea.

Now that I've been able to stop for a minute, I (selfishly) wonder if it was better when I didn't have any time to reflect... to stay at least sort of blissfully semi-ignorant of how much is going on, how tired I am, all the things I still have to think about, and just how much attention I haven't been giving to others (and what could have happened in the meantime)...

It hits like a ton of bricks. And today, it hurts.