usually this entry would be about camping, but alas this weekend was already saved for a friend's wedding... which worked out because it was raining/snowing where we'd probably be! that is IF we went...
we drove up to santa rosa to pat's friends' new house and met their new dog, bella...she's a very sweet dog, i think she's still getting used to her new owners but otherwise pretty mellow and definitely interested in babies...we had a few hours to kill before heading to the wedding, so we had lunch with pat's friends and we walked around their neighborhood...and they took us to the bread factory that just happened to be closing right when we got there... i ended up picking out a bag of 6 sour dough rolls... which turned out to be 90 cents!!! it might have been a day old... but who cares! the other bread they had gotten that we had partially eaten for lunch seemed pretty fresh to me!
pat and meghan with one of many snoopy's around santa rosa
time flew pretty quickly and we had to head out to the wedding... pat's friends graciously offered to babysit which really helped out a lot! drove out to sonoma and found the place fairly easily... after getting out of the car... you could see a beautiful view...and you could see why they picked out this place...found mason....and then next he introduces me to this clean shaven guy...IT'S THE GROOM!!! i totally didn't recognize him, for you see... he used to have this bushy beard... and now it was GONE!
we were a bit worried because it had been raining on and off throughout the day from when we drove up to the santa rosa, hung out and drove out to their wedding...as well as the everyone else! so they had chairs set up in both areas and up until the time jaqueline, the bride, was ready they really had no idea what they were going to do! poor greg, the groom, was trying very hard to make everyone happy along with trying to figure out what was going on... luckily he had called everyone to tell them to dress warm since it was going to be a bit chilly, which it was....jacqueline was running a bit late and finally came decision time and they went with outside...for part of the ceremony it was raining, but luckily not for long, and it was easily ignored because the ceremony could not have been more perfect.... the bride's brother was an awesome officiant and it was a beautiful wedding.... in the end maybe 5 of the older women complained about being in the cold but they did it! the hard part was over and soon was the time for the food!
ceremony area...groom and bride...mason helping out holding the chuppah
Mazel Tov!
we had some time to kill before food, while they were taking pictures so i was having fun just taking random pictures so here's a few
rocking chair on the deck...champagne & grape juice...blessing stones we held durint their ceremony
while taking this picture...this great idea came to mind... and pat read it...when i told him to take my picture...and we had a lot of fun with it 
finally we got to eat...after the set up, but the wait was sure worth it b/c the food was AMAZING! they made sure of it!
centerpiece...apetizer...i made pat get up to take a picture of the sunset
salad...beef...pretty candle holder and our name rocks
veggies...the most amazingly yummy wedding cake (three different kinds! but the best was the apricot chocolate something-er other)...and the yummiest grape juice i've ever had!
and monday went to the cemetary to bring meghan and pay respects to my grandpa and great grandparents... the end of a nice weekend....
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