Saturday when we arrived Megan & I went straight to a lingerie shower for Mikaela with other cousins and her girl friends. Rachel (Mikaela's sister) did a great job throwing the party!
Saturday evening everyone went to dinner at Vaughn & Carolyn's--they had a ton of lasagna, bread, and salad for everyone!
Jason & Stacie
Amanda and I
Aunt Ginny made Mikaela her own I'm the Bride Card
Sunday morning a bunch of us had breakfast together at the hotel where the 'adults' discussed the ridiculousness of Twitter--my dad and Vaughn decide to prove this by "tweeting" (texting) each other throughout the meal updating the other on their activity. They were sitting across the table from one another...
Since I was the officiant, Chuck and I were invited to the rehearsal lunch held Sunday afternoon at J's, an incredible restaurant in Fort Collins. This was the delicious dessert--chocolate ravioli--probably one of the most phenomenal things I have ever tasted.
Mikaela and Amanda at the lunch
From there we went to the rehearsal held at the Tapestry House, the gorgeous wedding location. The ceremony would be outdoors followed by an indoor reception. Here's Amanda waiting for the rehearsal to begin.
Ft. Collins sits at the base of the Rockies. This is Horsetooth mountain, part of the range, seen driving around town.
Dinner Sunday night was back at Vaughn & Carolyn's. This time pizza was ordered. This stack would only be half...we had 30 pizzas on hand that night!
Monday before the wedding (it wasn't until 6) a group of us headed out to Greeley to Grandma & Papa's house. Here's the crew exploring Papa's vegetable garden. (Papa, dad, Megan, Chuck & Nathan)
Grandma had been busy again! This is one of two wedding quilts she made for Mikaela and Erik--look at all those individual squares sewn together!
One of my favorite moments of the weekend was pulling out the memory quilt made about 9 years ago for Grandma and Papa's 50th anniversary. Grandma had transferred family photos starting from their wedding in 1950 to fabric and sewed them together to make a huge patchwork of family history. It was the one thing at Grandma's house I had been really wanting to show Chuck because it holds SO much Hanson family history. A bunch of us spend a long time pouring over the photos and reminisicing. 
The border of the entire quilt is made up of letters the 4 kids wrote to Papa in the 60s while he was in Vietnam and Korea. They saved them all, transfered them to fabric, and sewed them together to create the border. Some made us cry, but most made us roar with laughter as we read young Vaughn's requests for pet rabbits, my dad's accounts of helping around the house and Virginia's suggestion that little brothers and sisters should be muzzled and leashed. 
Renata & I howling because my dad had told Papa "you should see Renata and Virginia exercise, boy are they ever funny!" We were having fun trying to figure out what kind of exercises they would have been doing.
The wedding turned out beautifully despite a touch of the stomach flu for the bride...luckily we have some doctors in the family who can prescribe some anti-nausea drugs in a moment's notice to get her back on her feet for the ceremony!
Megan & Nathan waiting for the wedding to start
Ginny & Mike
Amanda & Erik's best man, Matt
Looking very official
Here comes the bride!
Who gives Mikaela to be married to Erik?
Listening to Stacie sing a beautiful song
The very cool reception hall
Chuck congratulating me on a great ceremony
Brian, Julia and I
The mommy of my little niece or nephew!
Dad and I
My beautiful little cousin, all grown up
Papa wanted a picture taken--he's ready to celebrate!
Renata and Ernie, causing trouble no doubt
They had glow stick bracelets on the tables, Ginny collected them
Saturday evening everyone went to dinner at Vaughn & Carolyn's--they had a ton of lasagna, bread, and salad for everyone!Jason & Stacie
Amanda and I
Aunt Ginny made Mikaela her own I'm the Bride Card
Sunday morning a bunch of us had breakfast together at the hotel where the 'adults' discussed the ridiculousness of Twitter--my dad and Vaughn decide to prove this by "tweeting" (texting) each other throughout the meal updating the other on their activity. They were sitting across the table from one another...
Since I was the officiant, Chuck and I were invited to the rehearsal lunch held Sunday afternoon at J's, an incredible restaurant in Fort Collins. This was the delicious dessert--chocolate ravioli--probably one of the most phenomenal things I have ever tasted.
Mikaela and Amanda at the lunch
From there we went to the rehearsal held at the Tapestry House, the gorgeous wedding location. The ceremony would be outdoors followed by an indoor reception. Here's Amanda waiting for the rehearsal to begin.
Ft. Collins sits at the base of the Rockies. This is Horsetooth mountain, part of the range, seen driving around town.
Dinner Sunday night was back at Vaughn & Carolyn's. This time pizza was ordered. This stack would only be half...we had 30 pizzas on hand that night!
Monday before the wedding (it wasn't until 6) a group of us headed out to Greeley to Grandma & Papa's house. Here's the crew exploring Papa's vegetable garden. (Papa, dad, Megan, Chuck & Nathan)
Grandma had been busy again! This is one of two wedding quilts she made for Mikaela and Erik--look at all those individual squares sewn together!
One of my favorite moments of the weekend was pulling out the memory quilt made about 9 years ago for Grandma and Papa's 50th anniversary. Grandma had transferred family photos starting from their wedding in 1950 to fabric and sewed them together to make a huge patchwork of family history. It was the one thing at Grandma's house I had been really wanting to show Chuck because it holds SO much Hanson family history. A bunch of us spend a long time pouring over the photos and reminisicing. 
The border of the entire quilt is made up of letters the 4 kids wrote to Papa in the 60s while he was in Vietnam and Korea. They saved them all, transfered them to fabric, and sewed them together to create the border. Some made us cry, but most made us roar with laughter as we read young Vaughn's requests for pet rabbits, my dad's accounts of helping around the house and Virginia's suggestion that little brothers and sisters should be muzzled and leashed. 
Renata & I howling because my dad had told Papa "you should see Renata and Virginia exercise, boy are they ever funny!" We were having fun trying to figure out what kind of exercises they would have been doing.
The wedding turned out beautifully despite a touch of the stomach flu for the bride...luckily we have some doctors in the family who can prescribe some anti-nausea drugs in a moment's notice to get her back on her feet for the ceremony!Megan & Nathan waiting for the wedding to start
Ginny & Mike
Amanda & Erik's best man, Matt
Looking very official
Here comes the bride!
Who gives Mikaela to be married to Erik?
Listening to Stacie sing a beautiful song
The very cool reception hall
Chuck congratulating me on a great ceremony
Brian, Julia and I
The mommy of my little niece or nephew!
Dad and I
My beautiful little cousin, all grown up
Papa wanted a picture taken--he's ready to celebrate!
Renata and Ernie, causing trouble no doubt
They had glow stick bracelets on the tables, Ginny collected them
Sarah, are you ordained already? If not, how did you happen to be able to officiate?
ReplyDeleteNope, not ordained yet, but in the state of Colorado that didn't matter. They didnt even need witnesses, they could have married themselves, so from a legal perspective I was eligible to marry them :)
ReplyDeleteWow, that's so interesting.
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