Maggie's Wedding; Natalie In Town

The day of Maggie's wedding arrived. The event was being held in their backyard.

Andy and Amanda had been working hard getting their yard ready for the big event.

They had a few glitches along the way. No one would have known by the looks of how lovely everything was that day.

There had been a leak in their sprinkler system that had to be dug up to repair.
There had been a huge windstorm that blew down the wedding decorations during the night.
There had been a glitch in the reception cookie catering order.

Despite everything, when the guests arrived at their backyard for the morning wedding, everything looked in pristine order.

Andy and Amanda even appeared calm and collected after their early-morning rushing around fixing everything the wind had damaged.

I had been looking forward to the wedding for two reasons--to see Maggie and Gabe get married and to see Natalie, who had flown in from Omaha for the event and to spend the week with Rachel.

Natalie got a photo with her grandparents and with her great-grandparents.

Maggie did the flowers for Preston's wedding and also the flowers for her own wedding. I loved the brown wrap on my Dad's boutonniere. Usually it is green, but I loved the look of the brown.

Let the wedding begin!! Here comes Rachel, sister of the bride.

Here comes Austin and Lindsey, brother and sister-in-law of the bride.

Here comes Preston and Danielle, brother and sister-in-law of the bride. (There were others from the groom's side walking down the aisle as well.)

And then...here comes the bride!!

Andy and Amanda live right across the street from their church, which has a bowery. It was the perfect location to have the wedding brunch. It was a delicious meal of crepes, eggs, bacon, sausage and fruit. I was impressed with how efficient they were using three camp stoves.

Amanda sent us home with two huge chocolate chip cookies. She had burnt them and thought of Glen who loves burnt cookies. I asked her why nobody ever thinks of giving me raw cookie dough like I love. They only think of Glen when they burn the cookies. 

Glen ate a whole one when we got home. He ate the other one with his dinner. He said they were perfectly burnt to his liking. For a guy who always turns down desserts and says he's not a sweets kind of guy, I would beg to differ with him now.

Glen's foot is feeling a whole lot better, but his back and hip have been killing him. He was glad a work Zoom meeting got scheduled for that evening so he could stay home from the reception.

Jeff had gone to Las Vegas to work for a few days and had returned back here just in time for Sarah, Rebecca and me to have a girls' night out. Hurrah!!

Off to the reception we went. We stood in front of the photo backdrop for our Polaroid photo to put in Maggie and Gabe's guest book. I was glad Nani was there to take a photo of us at the same time.

We took the opportunity to get our photo taken with our parents since we were all dressed up.

Maggie and Gabe LOVE cookies! Amanda made them a cookie wedding cake. She said it was the easiest wedding cake she's ever made--with just the little problem of burning two layers of the cake which she had sent home with Glen.

They served individually-wrapped Crumbl cookies for their refreshments.

This was a sweet moment to see my cute parents sitting on the swing. Still in love after 64 years of marriage.

What a nice feeling to mingle with family members--despite wearing a mask the whole evening (except for photos). What a beautiful day!!