Kristy & Steve's Garden Wedding

Saturday afternoon Geoffrey and I headed south to Richmond, VA for the wedding of my childhood friend, Kristy. Kristy and I have been friends since the 1st grade, when we met in Mrs. Blankenship's class at Gordon Elementary. Fast forward 21 years, and we arrive at Historic Mankin Mansion, the site of Kristy & Steve's wedding.

Kristy's nephew, Will, the ring bearer looked very suspiscious of the whole thing.
Mr. & Mrs. Jordan






I'm not sure what they were laughing about, but it sure was funny. Kristy & Steve danced to Rascal Flatts' "God Blessed the Broken Road." The song was very appropriate, as Steve and Kristy met over 5 years ago, when Steve was the best man in Tracy's (Kristy's sister) wedding.
During dinner Geoffrey and Travis discussed ways to take the leftover steamship round home. I somehow don't think the plan to wrap it in a table cloth would have worked so well.




The funniest part of the night was following the bouquet and garter toss. The lucky guy who caught the garter was blindfolded, to ensure he didn't see anything when he put the garter on the bouqet winner. While he was being blindfolded, the best man sat in the chair. The poor blind folded guy was pretty shocked when he touched a big hairy leg!

One of the great thing about weddings, (besides the actual marriage of course), is getting to catch up with old friends. I've been lucky enough to still remain in close contact with 5 of my high school girlfriends. Hopefully they won't kill me, but I couldn't resist a little "now and then" shot.

"Then" was 1999, at one of our annual back to school sleepovers we held each August before heading back to our respective schools. We certainly have had fun times throughout the years and I can only imagine what we still have in store.

"Now" at Kristy's wedding. As she said last night "3 down and 3 to go." Only time will tell who will walk down the aisle next. :)