Victoria's Wedding

Yay! They finally did it! Victoria and Aaron made it official on December 27, 2008. Mazel Tov! (This picture of them with their license cracks me up; like they just got a diploma or something)

They had their wedding up in Pennsylvania at this really nice country club-- why PA? Well, as freak chance would have it, their extended families live within about an hour of each other. How weird is that? But Vic says that it makes it really convenient when they need to meet everybody at holidays! So John and I made this power drive to get Christmas in Lynchburg, Christmas in Va Beach, and then a wedding in Pennsylvania ... all within four days! whew!

BUBBLES!!

The Wedding Party: Best Man Tim, Maid of Honor Me, Bride, Groom, Bridesmaid Stephanie (Aaron's sister), flower girl Chloe (Aaron's niece), and Groomsman Sean (Vic's brother)

The not-so-glamorous side of being a bridesmaid: running around after a bride (who fidgets more than an ADHD two-year-old, may I say) trying to keep her train clean and lying flat.

The ceremony was on the old Mansion side of the country club, and the reception was in the Party Hall building. Sit-down dinner and dancing... and, MAN, was the food good! They could have just kept the appetizers coming, and I would have been happy. My favorite were the tiny spannicopitas (how on earth do you spell that word?!) but there were also crab cakes, crab/shrimp Rangoon pouch thingies, coconut shrimp, and sesame chicken skewers. Then came salad, and then the main course: fillet Mignon or sea bass. John and I signed up for one of each because at the time the invitations went out, it wasn't finalized what "beef" and "seafood" would be served. I felt like a heifer because I was the only one at our entire table to clean my plate. :( But the food was good!

The outcasts of Table 9, aka "Victoria's College friends who wouldn't enjoy themselves sitting with family members." We didn't mind so much except for the fact that we were on the VERY edge of the seating area out in social Siberia. On the plus side, we did get food first...

The reception was lots of fun. Besides seeing a good chunk of all the college friends who have scattered to the winds since graduation, it was just good times had by all. Vic and Aaron's first dance was the dance from the end of Dirty Dancing... no, not just using that "I've had the time of my life" song; they choreographed the actual dance from the movie! It was so cool! When the dj announced what they would be dancing to, I heckled them, "I want to see the lift!" Needless to say, Victoria stuck her tongue out at me, but the lift was a part of the dance. (You could hear her warn Aaron, "Don't put me into the ceiling!" just before it.)

Cutting the cake and the backside of the dress


For, verily, I ask thee, what is a wedding reception without the Chicken Dance? Yes, most of the dancing was done by the wedding party or the college kids, but darn it we had fun! (We also made sure to have the Electric Slide and the ChaCha Slide, too!)

And I might have made the bar make me a Toasted Almond. (Why do bartenders never know what goes in one? I always need to eh'splain it to thems.)