A Wedding New York Style

Congratulations Haley and Michael....May you always be as happy as you are now!!! We loved being at your wedding and the reception was perfect...every detail was magnificent...a perfect party for a perfect pair!!!! We love you both...

The Bride and Groom

Here's what happened...

We all checked into a hotel on New Year's Eve. It was so fun seeing cousins and relatives and getting ready for the big event. We met in the lobby and followed each other to the wedding...the written directions were wrong and Peter's GPS took us to an Episcopal Church...eventually, we all got to the Church and the wedding was beautiful...we were proud of Gerald..he did a reading during the service and did a great job!! Afterwards, the wedding party held sparklers while we threw candy hearts from white cones as the Bride and Groom raced to the Limo...then we went back to the hotel to catch a charter bus to Giorgios at Foxhill Country Club for the elaborate fabulous reception...a truly WONDERFUL way to usher in 2008!!!!

the girls getting ready to leave the hotel...
Connor and Peter on the charter bus from the hotel to the reception...
Patti and Grandma on the way to the reception
Aunt Patti and Patti during cocktail hour...
I looked for my boys during the cocktail hour and found them in a back barroom watching the Clemson Bowl game (big shock!!)
our children (we missed Heather!!!) during the cocktail hour Peter, Andrew, Steven, LaNelle, Patti. Connor Sarah BethGerald and Jenny's sons Brian and Chris...we love those boys!Cocktail hour...we loved the "Shirley Temples" Cousin Tiny's three sons Danny, Douglas and Dennis . I hadn't seen them since they visited us in Charlotte back in 1991 and they mowed our grass and we all had a blast at Carowinds..."freshening up" before going into the ballroom. The bathrooms were palatial!!!In the Ballroom, Patti was ready to dance!!! The music was GREAT!!!!Pete's sister Patti and her husband Jeff...parents of the groomparents of the Bride and our hosts for the SUPERB party!!!Silly Andrew and Patti in the ballroom Jason and Sarah Beth...he treated her like a princessGerald's wife jen with her sons' girlfriends (fiancees) Kristen and Melissa

Sarah Beth and Connor were perfectly behaved for the whole 9 hour wedding/reception blast!!!Michael and Grandma dance a special dance

The groom was a professional baseball pitcher once and we think he gave his bride some lessons...does Patti seem overexcited to catch the boquet or what???Sarah Beth fell in love with cousin Jason and he gave her LOTS of attention!Connor danced the night away with his version of "hip hop" and the videographer taped him in the center dancing while everyone clapped for him...Jason and Melissa had fun dancing with him...they will be great parents some day (hint hint)taking a break from dancing to play with his gameboy Santa brought!!We had so much fun...and Patti texted through the reception....Cousin Kenneth and Karen...you were so much FUN!!!!My boys...now you know they are fun guys!!!LaNelle and Steven looked awesome and had such a great time!!!!We danced and danced and danced.....

Finally, Connor collapsed at the hotel!!!! Like the rest of us, he had partied hard!!!!!!