Wedding Day

Here is a peek at Heather and Kyle's wedding! It was very nice. Completely Heather. She had thought of every detail. Deer Valley was gorgeous.

The Program
The Ceremony.
Truly, I have to say it was one of the best civil ceremonies I have ever been to. So much spirituality spoken and felt. One of the highlight points that the pastor said to them was that God had brought them together and now He will be the one to keep them together. When all the newness wears off and the daily-ness of married life sets in, it gets hard. They need to turn to Him as the key partner in their marriage.

Beautiful mountain flowers. Much prettier in real life, or with a more advanced camera than my little point and shoot. So delicate yet strong.

The site of the ceremony. A peaceful meadow in upper Deer Valley.

The Empire Canyon Lodge, just to the back of the meadow.

Bride and Groom with bridesmaids and ushers. Heather was gorgeous. All grown up into a beautiful woman. I remember when Natalie used to babysit her!

A spectacular combination of flowers.

The wedding party.

Just as the pastor announced them as "Mr. and Mrs. Kyle---", it started to rain. Ah, mountain life! At least it waited until the ceremony was finished! They walked down the Arch of Sabers (Kyle is a pilot for the Air Force and just graduated from the AF Academy), and we guests bee-lined it for the unbrellas on the lodge deck where we enjoyed appetizers and beverages. It was the perfect temperature at 6pm!

As summer storms do, it rained off and on for a while. At each break, they ran outside and took as many pictures as they could.

This gentleman played his accoustic guitar for all the music for the ceremony and cocktail hour. He was amazing. None of the music was traditional. No wedding march, etc. But it all worked and made perfect sense. Beautifully simple in this mountain setting. The perfect touch.

John and Cathy. Parents of the bride. Good friends, good neighbors, good business partner. I had a different photo of them looking into the camera, but because he is sooo tall and she is sooo short, it didn't turn out very well. So here they are having a good chuckle about the rain's timing. Tough old John got a touch emotional walking her down the aisle! You old softy. We've known it all along, ya know!

Our seating assignment and menu for the meal. It was delicious in every way. We toasted with sparkling cider. Christine, Natalie, and Robert were seated at another table across the room. The waiters kept bringing wine and champagne to them even though they told them they were a dry table. At one point, a waiter finally looked at Christine, and realized she was not older! Everyone had a good laugh.

Now they are off at the Stein Erickson for the night and then travel to Tahiti for a fabulous honeymoon.

CONGRATULATIONS YOU TWO!

[Just a side note observation: Lots and lots of fly-boys from the AF. I had an interesting thought at one point. They were indulging in the 'spirits' a tad much. Let's just say they were having a really good time celebrating, okay. And after they sleep it off in the next day or two, could get a call to climb in that multi million dollar fighter jet and defend us. Kind of a sobering ponderance. It was a little Top Gun-ish for me. Haha!]