My Daughter’s Wedding

A new way to get out information about your wedding is to create your own wedding web site. Wedding Solutions is a great place to do this. They offer 2 forms–one is a one page web site which you can upload information and a picture. The other form is a multi page web site that you can customize. It’s a fun and technologically savvy way to share wedding info with family and friends!

What do you think of these bridesmaid dresses from David’s Bridal? I think the colors are gorgeous!

Maybe you’ve noticed how beautiful the weather is in autumn. At least it is in my neck of the woods. The skies are clear blue, the grass is green, the leaves are beginning to change and the mums are a glorious array of colors.

Wouldn’t a fall wedding be beautiful? I have always wanted to have a fall wedding. However, I had a June wedding, and so did my older daughter. So I am hoping if my younger daughter gets married, she does so in the fall!

Autumn weddings lend themselves to vibrant colors--chocolates, royal blues, reds, oranges, deep greens, rust, teal, and purple. I want to share some lovely autumn floral arrangements I’ve found.

Sometimes unusual things happen at weddings.  Check these out.

One of the days we were looking at wedding venues was totally rainy and cloudy.  So I didn’t take any pictures of my own.  However, these were interesting so I will share links to their web sites:  Blue Skies Inn in Manitou Springs; Crescent Lily Inn, a bed and breakfast right down town in Colorado Springs;         Black Forest Bed and Breakfast, several miles out of the Springs; Hillside Gardens, a lovely setting in an unlikely spot in the middle of Colorado Springs; and my personal favorite, Briarhurst Manor in Manitou Springs.  All were lovely.  Some had a view of Pikes Peak in the background.  So if you are planning a wedding in Colorado Springs, I would recommend looking at these places.  There are others.  But I didn’t have time to personally look at them.

A beautiful church in Colorado Springs is Shove Chapel on the campus of Colorado College.  It is a beautiful Gothic Cathedral in a lovely setting.  This is a much more formal setting, but you wouldn’t have to worry about an unexpected shower!

And finally, the most famous chapel in the Springs–the Air Force Academy Chapel.  It is a beautiful place.  However,  either the bride or groom must have graduated from one of the U. S. service academies.

While in Colorado Springs I checked out a couple of local wedding sites. This is a lovely resort–the Broadmoor. Starry Eyed Daughter and I went out there one afternoon and walked around the lake behind the hotel. It was a beautiful day, so we made several trips around the lake. Beautiful weather, beautiful scenery.

And we came upon an area that looked like it was being set up for a wedding. So I pulled out my camera and took a shot so I could share it. Wouldn’t this be a lovely place to have a wedding? I wish we could have stayed and watched the whole affair:) Has anyone ever stayed at the Broadmoor?

I just glanced at the date of my last post, and was shocked to see how long it has been. I’ve just been fooling around with things like learning to resize photos so they will fit on a blog or web site and other technologically challenging things.

At this moment, my husband and I are in Colorado Springs visiting our daughter (the Starry Eyed one) and her husband (Future–now Current Son In Law). And I’m glad to say that after celebrating their 1st anniversary, they still seem to be in love! And I truly hope that love grows with each passing year!

Colorado Springs is a very lovely city. I love to wake up and see that Pikes Peak is still there! Today was rainy all day and the clouds and fog covered the mountains. And I thought–how like life. Sometimes the troubles and “clouds” of life obscure the strength of our life–in my case, God. But even though, I don’t see Him through my circumstances of that moment, it certainly doesn’t mean that He is not there. In fact, He is always there. As thoroughly unmovable as that majestic mountain.

Ok, enough philosophizing for today. I hope to get back to my wedding blogging soon. My daughter and I are checking out a couple of wedding venues here in the Springs, so I hope to have some information to share in case anyone is looking for a wedding location here. The mountains make a lovely backdrop!

I’ve been trying to figure out how to get pictures on here. Actually, I know how, but when I try to upload a file it tells me that it is too big. I don’t know what to do about that. I guess I’ll work on that later.

In the meantime I have added a link to the slide show that our photographer, Joe, from Josephotography put on his web site.

Joe was a great photographer. He and another photographer spent the whole day with Starry Eyed Daughter and Future Son In Law and the wedding party. They started in Forest Park (St. Louis), went to the Arch grounds, and ended up at Quail Ridge Park in St. Charles County where the wedding took place.

They had to have their pictures taken before the ceremony, because the wedding and reception were in the same place. And the wedding wasn’t until 7:00 because it was on a Friday night, and we had to allow for the people coming a distance after work.

But they wanted to have the pictures taken in St. Louis, so that was the way they had to do it.  Joe arranged for them to meet before the others got there so he could take pictures as they saw each other for the first time.

I think over 800 pictures were taken that day! But you know what–when its all over, that ’s the only thing you have left. I wish I could show you at least 650 of the pictures, but these on the slide show are a good representation.

When you have finished watching the slide show, check out the rest of Joe’s web site. He’s a great photographer and a really nice guy! Allison and Mark had a lot of fun with the picture taking.

By the way, the maid of honor is my younger daughter, Darling Dancer, the bridesmaids were good friends, the best men (they were all best men!) were brothers of the groom, and the flower girl is my husband’s youngest grandchild.

If you are looking for a photographer for a wedding or any occasion, and you live in the St. Louis, St. Charles area of MO (or maybe anywhere–I don’t know how far he’ll travel) call Joe for an appointment to see his photos.

Sorry, I have not written in a while. I’ve been trying to help my younger daughter get ready to go back to her second year of college. Unfortunately for her, she inherited my ability to procrastinate! I guess that could be a whole new blog!!

But, now she is back and getting settled in. And I am spending a few days with my mom and sister. Just some girl time. It is nice. But why is it when you go home to your mom’s, you revert back to feeling like a child?

So right now, it is a very lazy day. It is raining very softly, and we are just sitting around enjoying having nothing to do.

I’ll be going home in a couple days and will get back to work. I’ve put more pages on my web site and am now going to figure out how to put some pictures on it–so pretty soon I will be giving out the address.

One more thought–if I was still teaching, I’d be back for my first week of school:)