Ring Bears as Ring Bearers

A movie footnote to Jordan and Stephanie's wedding, nephews Beau and Beck dressed in bear costumes for the wedding rehearsal. No one expected the ring bearers to growl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvdHKL2_JcE

A New Mrs. Frugé

 
Stephanie Reneé Reinhart became Mrs. Jordan Frugé a week ago today.

It seems so much longer ago––is it the time change? 

A Mary Poppins wedding, "practically perfect in every way."

Welcome to our family, Stephanie.

My pictures fail to capture how radiant Bride and Groom looked, how wonderful the ceremony was, and how much fun our whole family had throughout the wedding weekend in Horseshoe Bay. 

Here's a peak at a few pictures the wedding photographer took.
http://tylerschmitt.blogspot.com/2010/03/wedding-stephanie-jordan-austin-texas.html 
  

Jordan's nephews, aka. my grandsons Beau and Beck, were Ring Bears. A surprise during the rehearsal, the twins played their parts and kept their secret, which was their mother's great idea. No costumes worn for the actual wedding though. 

No wedding is complete without its crisis and its hero. Here's Charlie, the guy who risked life and limb to break into Stephanie's house to retrieve her veil.

When Stephanie realized late Friday night that she had forgotten her veil in Houston, desperation led Jordan to tell Charlie to use a golf club to break a window. A vigilant neighbor stopped Charlie mid-entry––stopped him with a .357 Magnum pointed at his backside. 

This story has a happy ending. Charlie got the veil, he delivered it in time for the wedding, and Jordan and Stephanie via cell phone made fast friends with their new next door neighbor.  

From a Distance

From so far away that I wondered whether my point and shoot camera (a Canon G10) could record anything, this one picture captured the bride's joy.

As the couple entered their wedding reception, we gathered among guests who this past weekend made the drive to Canadian, where the bride's ancestors first arrived in the Texas Panhandle during the mid-1800's. Those great-great grandparents later settled in Pampa where the bride's parents have lived all of their lives and where we had lived for 25 years.

A serendipitous occasion for my husband and me, we knew two-thirds of the people who attended this lavish event. Like something out of the movie Sabrina, everyone savored a picture-perfect evening that people who live in Dallas or Houston or San Antonio might enjoy 2 times a year--once in the spring and once in the fall. Like ice cream on top of cake, it tasted yummy just being there.

Weddings bring people together from a distance. Back in the Panhandle, traveling a shorter distance to see people we know and love and have missed makes Lubbock feel like coming home.