Declaring His Faithfulness

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Dinner with Ben

I was pretty tired the evening of the wedding, but not too tired to take a few pictures of Ben at the dinner table. This boy likes to eat!

Behind the Scenes at the Reception

You've seen the pictures of the reception, but what you haven't seen is how it all happened. Soon after we began planning the wedding, my dear friend, Ronda Hollingsworth, convinced me to let her do the reception food for us. It is well-known that Ronda is an excellent cook, and I had not doubt but what she could pull off a wonderful reception for us, but it was a lot to ask of anyone, even a good friend. Once our Life Group heard that Ronda was doing the food for the reception, they decided to pitch in and help, too. At least four other members of the Life Group, in addition to Ronda, helped prepare and serve the food. Several other friends helped, as well, including two friends of Ronda's, one of whom was in my 6th grade class many years ago. I feel very blessed to have so many wonderful friends who worked so hard and gave of themselves to serve us in this way!

Molly Ironside, a former student of mine, helped cook on both Friday and the day of the wedding. Molly and her mom also helped during the wedding so that Ronda could attend the ceremony.

Katherine Brill helped Ronda in the kitchen the morning of the wedding.

Here you see the many stacks of crepes that Ronda made and froze during the weeks before the wedding.

Katherine preparing pigs-in-a-blanket for baking

Molly and Ronda, hard at work

Others not pictured who helped in various ways were Stacey Canady, Annette Penny, Michele Miller, Angela Mueller, Amy Scarbrough, and Lacey Bingaman.

Friday, December 30, 2011

Wedding Reception

Lisa's and Steve's wedding reception was held in Fellowship Hall at UBC following the wedding ceremony in the Chapel of the Dove. Since the wedding was at 10:30 in the morning, the reception was a brunch. We served fruit salad, bacon-wrapped chicken bites, pigs in a blanket, hash brown casserole, Texas torte, and two kinds of crepes, along with the wedding cake and groom's cake. To drink, we had coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and punch.

The wedding cake was beautiful.

The groom's cake was a Greek/English New Testament, with Phillipians 2.

Our entire family with my parents and my sisters and their families

It was a beautiful, sunny December day for their wedding!

Jesse loved getting to ring the bell as Steve and Lisa left the church.

... and I'm Goin' to Get Married

Lisa and Steve were married on Saturday, December 17, 2011, in the Chapel of the Dove at University Baptist Church. This is where David and I were married in July of 1976, except at that time it was the main sanctuary. Most of their wedding pictures were taken before the ceremony. While the wedding photographer was taking pictures, my niece, Rebecca took some pictures of her own. She took all of the pictures used in this blog post.

The girls were pretty cold being outside for pictures at about 9 AM.

Lisa, with flower girls, Hannah Huneycutt, Kate Kieklak, and Mia Kieklak

Our new, expanded family

Our family with my parents and David's mom

They finished the wedding photographs of the wedding party by 9:45 AM, and we still had 45 minutes before the beginning of the wedding. The girls took advantage of the time to take some more pictures together.

Rebecca, Ellen, Lisa, and Amy

Lisa with Kristin

Cara and Lisa, both have engagement rings

My two sweet girls, Katie and Lisa

Hannah and Lisa, cousins with attitude

One of the sweetest times, was when Lisa's bridesmaids and I prayed with her right before the ceremony.

I'm Goin' to the Chapel...

Lisa's wedding day began very early! I was up at 5 AM, with instructions to wake Lisa up at 5:50. It just didn't seem right when I woke Lisa up, saying, "Lisa, wake up. Today is your wedding day." Could my baby already be grown up enough to get married?

We left for the church a little after 6 AM.Lisa wanted a morning wedding, but getting to church this early didn't seem as good at 6:15 Saturday morning.