I’m back with the final portion of the wedding fun. To my readers who are bored to tears by this stuff, I beg you to tough it out. This gets me points with the family. I need points. I save them.

The Ceremony

Because of the rain, the crowd gathered inside for the ceremony. We decided to get married in the living room in front of the picture window looking out on the water. I waited impatiently with the Notary, Sheila Banks (who kicked ass on making the ceremony brief and perfect!) as Erin waited in the Kitchen. Then, a most irritating thing happened. The iPod wouldn’t play the song Erin wanted to walk down the aisle to.

After about 3 minutes, someone (my genius mother of course) said ‘forget the music, we’ll all just hum the wedding march”.

And, like in some silly musical where a crowd breaks out in song…

…my beautiful bride was walking arm in arm with her father as the whole crowd sang in full force “DA DUM DA DUM… DA DUM DA DUM”..

It was the definition of awesome.

Erin read me her vows….

I read her mine… That was pretty intense – looking into Erin’s eyes at that moment, just before we got married. I felt like a giddy little schoolgirl.

It’s official. Erin is now one of us.. assimilated.

Here we are, the first photo with us as a ‘legal’ family. Life is great.

Thanks for listening. If you want to see all 200+ awesome photos of the wedding, the hours before and the reception after, including the awesome best man toast by my brother Travis -  click here to see it on Facebook – or click here to see it on Picasa!

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