Backtracking, I: Wedding

In July Edith was a flower girl and Tom was presiding minister at his cousin Keri's wedding. It was blazing hot, but you'd never know it from looking at the wedding party--nor at the fresh-cut hydrangeas, gathered from everyone in the county who had some to give and resulting in a stunning range of colors.


Keri was a gorgeous bride, and there are marvelous pictures of the whole affair floating around Facebook and other parts of the ether. As this is Edith and Alice's blog, however, "Between the Dark and the Daylight" features the wedding from the flower girls' perspective.

At the beauty parlor

Skeptical at first....

Evaluating...

Pleased as punch!

One of the best parts of serving as a flower girl was serving as one of two flower girls. Edith and Jenna, the daughter of the groom, got along with each other from the get-go and had that much more fun participating together. Their quick friendship made me hopeful that E. would make friends just as easily when moving to Colorado and starting kindergarten.

The "limo bus" was another big highlight of the day for Edith, seen here with Jenna and the ubiquitous Aunt Sharon. That's right: Between packing our moving pods in New Jersey in June and driving our car cross-country and unloading our moving pods in Colorado in August, Aunt Sharon had the small matter of coordinating and hosting her daughter's wedding.

The girls knew they were supposed to walk in sync, but each was waiting for the other to start. Eventually they got going, and because it was an outdoor affair, they actually got to toss rose petals along the aisle.

Alice boogied down, oblivious to the fact that her parents would abandon her in less than 24 hours

Next post, Congo.