Wedding Rehearsal & Dinner

Wednesday night was the rehearsal and dinner prepared by me…the mother of the groom.  I was so grateful for the help I received from Bob, my brother & sister in law and my two gal friends, Susan & Barbara.   I did as much of the prep work as I could at home.  Had all 60 of the spuds wrapped in foil, made the sauce for the meatballs, etc.  I couldn’t use the churches plates, silverware or cups because they were set aside for the wedding reception. So we really had the car loaded with the food and all the stuff needed to put this dinner on.  I also received a delivery of 125 roses earlier in the day and those we delivered to the lady that’s doing the flowers.  All of this was done in Olympia, WA so we had about a 35 mile drive in order to  deliver the roses and get to the church by 5pm.   We did get a slightly late start because the water was shut off in the park (without notice) at  about 2:30pm for about an hour.  Of course I hadn’t showered when this happened so I was in a tizzy for awhile.

I thought we were going to have round tables so I had purchased round table clothes.  Low and behold we had small square tables but it worked out ok. 

We used the area where this church has their Latte bar.  There was a nice long counter to set out our buffet dinner.  Wish I could have had an Italian Soda, but I don’t know how to make one and furthermore I didn’t have time for such things.

This is my sister-in law, my middle niece and my little brother.

Susan, Bob and Barbara finally getting some dinner too.

The bride and groom trying to eat but still having to go over the wedding details.

I wanted to get pictures of the sanctuary, it is so beautiful ~ but the lights were very low in there and really…..I didn’t have time to get in there to take pictures.  They have removed all the congregation chairs and set it up with the big round tables. Eight people to a table…all decorated beautifully.  I’m hoping when we arrive there at 4pm on Friday, there’s enough light in there so I can take a picture of at least one table.  I had to do one “walk thru” at the rehearsal…my son is going to walk me down the isle and seat me.  Ahhhhh !  And I know I’m probably going to cry, so will be stuffing my purse with Kleenex.  The wedding starts at 6:30pm Pacific Standard Time, Friday so think of us….send all your good thoughts to Capital Christian Center in Olympia, Washington. 

I’ll get as many pictures as I can….and will post them later.  Until then…….Linda, mother of the groom