Wedding 8

I have now been privileged to perform weddings for two friends, both of whom are colleagues from work. On 06-07-08 (an easy date to remember, said the groom) I performed the second one. The bride had relocated to Connecticut after uprooting herself from a lifetime in Michigan. The groom had been in the area for a while, and although we all work for the same company, the two might not have met without the intervention of yet another colleague in New York.

The wedding was intimate, once again taking place in the chapel at Olde Mystick Village. This time however, a friend had decorated it with candles and flowers, transforming it from a simple structure to something more magical. Yet another friend provided beautiful background music on the piano - all simple things that created a lovely atmosphere.

The groom's son stood for his father, and the friend who orchestrated the fix-up stood for the bride. A family friend read a poem, the ceremony was performed and voila! The marriage was sealed. After the ceremony, we all went to a local restaurant to celebrate and ended the evening back at the bride's home for cake and champagne.

This may be my last wedding for a while as sometime this summer, I head to Kenya for six months. More on that later...