My youngest brother Paul had been dating Ally for 7 years and have two darling kids together. Ally had been recently diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma so things have been rough for them. They finally decided it was time to make things official. It was extremely last minute. They informed us while we were in Florida so it was a mad dash to make arrangements. Those arrangements kept changing and it was really frustrating but I think it all worked out in the end. They were able to have the ceremony at this darling church in Sellwood and then had a little reception at Chris's store. Jonathan and Bethany came to town for it, as well as our Nanna! The morning of the wedding, the siblings wanted to go to brunch. Michael had to work that afternoon and didn't know if he would make the reception so we wanted to make sure we had time with him. I seriously love my family. We are all at different spots in our lives but truly care about each other and like being together. We got back from brunch to a mad house. Paul and his family are living at my parent's house while Ally is going through chemo so everyone was getting ready over there. We (Bethany, Jonathan, David, Chris and I) didn't have any responsibilities or commitments until the ceremony at 4 so we had made plans to go downtown and play. The wedding party had a lunch to get to so we helped get the kids ready. Then we found out that the rings and flowers hadn't been picked up. There were also some food items that hadn't been taken care of and my mom (who was going to marry them) hadn't written her ceremony yet. The stress level was at def con 10 so we decided to go take care of all that. We actually had a blast hitting a bunch of stores and writing the ceremony in the car. We made it to the church on time and took some pictures.
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| My Dad had written something for my Mom to read but she couldn't read his handwriting so he just read it for her. It was beautiful and made me really emotional. |
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| Sterling would not put that camera down. I think he took more pictures than anyone else. |
After the ceremony we went to World Market to finish up our wedding present for them. We all chipped in and got them a night at Paul's favorite hotel at Cannon Beach and a gift certificate to his favorite clam chowder restaurant. We wanted to put together a basket of snacks and stuff for them. We kind of went crazy and got too much, but it was fun. We then met my Dad at Oba for some food (we hadn't had time to eat since brunch) and then headed to the store for the reception.
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| This is the kind of picture we get when it's our kids taking it! |
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| Fondue station |
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| Ornament station |
As soon as we heard that Michael was done with work, my Dad went and got him. We were finally all together!
Bud, Dad, Poohbear, Wogger, Bethy Sue, Snug, Mum and Michael Pichael
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