another great wedding

I do love weddings...but i really think i must elope. Friday was my sisters big day - and believe me, it was a BIG day...in fact it was several big days - filled with African and French relatives, shopping trips, polishing silver (a whole day of it for me =), preparing a Cameroonian rehearsal dinner, getting pedicures, a wonderful bachelorette party, and then finally wedding pictures at Pittock Mansion, the beautiful ceremony at the Old Church (someone mentioned to me that it was the most beautiful wedding they had ever seen), and the fun fill reception filled with lots of dancing at the North Star Ballroom. By 10pm I was ready for bed (forgetting about all the cleanup that lay ahead that would stretch out over several days). Tomorrow Mops and I are off to the beach for a much needed mini-vacation. For my favorite girls in Tennessee who I know would LOVE to see some pictures of the wedding - here they are! (i don't have a great selection from right now, but i will add more as i get them!)

"Love helped me push through the crack in the rock until I could look right onto my Love, the sun himself. See now! There is nothing whatever between my Love and my heart, nothing around to distract me from him. He shines upon me and makes me to rejoice, and has atoned to me for all that was taken from me and done against me. There is no flower in all the world more blessed or more satisfied than I, for I look up to him as a weaned child and say, "Whom have I in heaven but thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire but thee.'"
-Hinds Feet on High Places (Hannah Hurnard)