They asked us to serve the rehearsal dinner, so we left early Friday morning around 7:30. Our minivan doesn't have A/C, so it was a hot ride out. Somehow, we managed to have some fun, though! :)
Photo credits go to: T..J., Abi, Sam and I.
Mom surprised each of us with our favorite snacks. The three of us were stuck in the back for basically the whole trip. :)
The two stooges.
All of us
Dad with his sun chips and Mom with her double stuffed Oreos.
Dad put a bid in Trip Advisor for a $60 hotel room. Ramada Inn accepted the bid, so we got to stay in a $150 hotel room for really cheap!
We had been planning on just stuffing in one room, but Dad surprised us when we got there by having two rooms!
It was a very interesting hotel. Each second story room has a private balcony that overlooks a pool and, we think it was a bar area, or something.
The boys loved the pool!
Josh found a soft stuffed ball out on the one balcony that someone had left. The boys had a grand time of playing catch in the pool with it.
After getting changed, we had a pillow fight before leaving for the church.
Of course, it was everyone against Josh. :)
You know those colored throw things that hotels put on the end of beds? I tied KK's legs up with one. He didn't realize it till he went to get up. :)
Bats in the belfry!
At the church, we started to prepare the rehearsal dinner when somebody spotted a bat clutching onto a divider curtain right above the food table. After Daddy took care of it, we found another bat up there. You can almost see it in between the two big folds of curtain.
See the chair behind the table? That's where the bats were.
Guest book table.
Their Love Story
Here we are, back in the hot kitchen.
Reception food table in the gym.
Kiley's famous iced coffee. My, was it good!
Dad, mixing a salad
Chopping veggies
The Smith singers (plus Ry), practicing "One hand, One Heart" for the ceremony.
Joshie was crying over the onions he had to cut, which happened to be particularly strong ones. :)
Working hard
One of the tables
Josiah
Joanna
Watching and waiting
Abi was dishing out the mushroom sauce for the spaghetti, when she exclaimed, "Aha! I thought I'd seen a rubber band in there!"
Awhile later, I was looking for a dish in the cabinet above the sauce. I tipped a little saucer over to look at it and a bunch of little wooden pegs fell down into the sauce and on the counter. Uho. I fished around for awhile and thought I'd found all of them, but Abi found a couple more later. :) Whoops! When we told Sheila about it, she responded with a chuckle, "no wonder it tasted so good!"
We wrapped the garlic bread in foil to warm it in the gas stove. Somehow, one of them got a hole in its foil, so the melted butter dripped out onto the bottom of the stove. It almost caught fire, causing a lot of smoke. We couldn't find an exhaust fan, so quickly opened a door and started waving lunch trays around to blow the smoke out. Never a dull moment, huh? :)
Drink station with water, lemonade, and coffee.
Last minute set up before the crowd comes!
Sheila had made ahead of time, plain and fish lasagna, and the mushroom sauce for spaghetti. There was also garlic bread, salad with all the toppings, fruit salad and chocolate cake.
The sunset on the way home was gorgeous!
The night before the wedding, the brides mother asked Dad if he could help with the reception food. He said yes, of course. So, we ended up missing nearly the entire wedding doing food set up.
Cashews and wedding mints
The cake was just decorated styrofoam. :)
Coffee table and punch fountain
Decorations (edited) :)
Bridal table
Lunch before the wedding, that most of us kitchen people never got...
The special couple
Aw... Sweetness...
Kater and Bird wore white dresses. They were so cute!
Chocolate dipped strawberries
Those totes on the left held the real cake for the reception.
On Friday, a bunch of people assembled fruit kabobs. Before the wedding, we stuck them in pineapples that had been screwed onto a piece of OSB and a tray for stability. They turned out really pretty!
Bride and Groom cake
The altar
They took pictures before the wedding. I was looking for Sam, and discovered him standing next to the photographer, taking pictures. :)
Ok, it's getting close! We've got the table all laid out...
...the punch fountain going...
... and the coffee full.
Josh and KK putting the centerpieces on the bridal table.
There were three choices of cake- white, lemon, and strawberry. Wow, it was so yummy! I've never had cake that moist and fluffy. My mouth is watering as I write this... :)
The punch was lime flavored.
Lemon water and iced coffee
Yes, I actually got to hold Sweeter... but only when all the Smiths got busy with their various parts of the wedding. :)
This is just after she walked down the aisle.
Pastor Tom married them.
I thought this picture was really neat. All of these ceremony pictures were taken through the little glass slits in the sanctuary doors.
Back in the kitchen, getting ready for the rush!
The cake left overs on the bottom of the trays were extra yummy. :)
Bridal table all dished up.
Fruit trays, chocolate dipped strawberries, fruit kabobs and cake completed the menu.
Decor
I really like how they put the bridal table in the middle of the room. It didn't seem as showy then.
These candles had to be carried from the sanctuary and relit before the bridal party entered.
Enter: Bride and Groom
Cutting their cake
:)
I like how this picture focused on them, but blurred the crowd out.
Bridal table... again...
Instead of greeting people as they dismissed, they just walked around after they were done eating and talked to people.
Tammy and Addison Strong helped us take down the food afterwards.
These ladies were from that church. They were a big help to us!
Take down
Folding up those fluffy ties that they used on the chairs was a headache!
It all went really fast with everybody helping.
Kels and Katerbug
Visiting
The boys got out the basket ball and started playing after they cleared the floor.
Chloe is amazing! She just gets right in there and seems to be able to squeak out of all injuries.
We left Holdrege around 7:30 pm and got home around 12:30 am. Dad and Josh bought an A/C recharger and recharged the A/C in the van, making our trip home not quite so miserable.
We got home with very sore feet and very tired bodies. :) But all in all, it was a great weekend!
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