Meagan's title, not mine! :) It was actually a very beautiful and classy wedding set back in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Claes and Meagan live in Florida but his grandmother lives in the mountains and when Meagan saw her house for the first time, she knew that's where she wanted to get married. The ceremony was held at the outdoor alter of St. Johns Episcopal Church in Franklin, NC. We then proceeded another 30 minutes into the mountains to Claes' grandmother's house for the reception. What a beautiful setting!
The crazy wedding party!
The happy couple -
Dinner was served by Fat Buddies Barbeque - Their ribs are so tender you can actually eat them with a fork!
Guest flew in from everywhere - Florida to the Ukraine - to celebrate with Claes and Meagan.
Here's a first - Meagan was swinging on the rope swing the day before and thought it would look too cool in her wedding dress! :)
Entertainment was provided by a great bluegrass band called Curtis Blackwell and the Dixie Bluegrass Boys
What fun! Thank you so much for bringing us in to share your day with you! We had a wonderful time and we hope you love your pictures. Have a fabulous honeymoon in Belize!! And now I'm off to learn the lyrics to Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" because ever since it was played as the couple's first dance, I can't stop singing it - this is now day three of it constantly playing in my head! :)
Hey Janel - I thought you'd get a kick out of this! :)
This is Janel (one of last weekend's brides) and me from our junior year of high school. We were in a play together called "Into the Woods" which is a crazy musical where all of the fairy tales end up going terribly wrong. I was Cinderella and Janel was the Baker's wife who my prince had an affair with - I'm telling you it's a wierd one! Anyway, I just came across this so I thought I'd share. :) Direct flash, scanned in old 4x6, red-eye - my oh my we've come a long way!
We've been traveling around quite a bit over the past few weeks. As we've started doing this blog, I've realized that we hardly post any pictures of ourselves so I'm endeavoring to change that. Here we are bored in the car:
Sean thinks he's ghetto - what a white boy...
We went to Cades Cove in East Tennessee for Meagan and Claes' engagement session and I have to say, upper East Tennessee is a completely different world! I went to college up that way at Carson Newman and I've grown up in the south so you become numb to certain things but if you really stop and take a look at what's around you - wow! Check out just a few of the signs along the main strip in Pigeon Forge...
Oh that's right - they have "oooh wee" spelled out on a sign under a guy with a pot on his head - where else in God's green earth can you find this?? But that's not the half of it. Only in upper East Tennessee will you find the g dropped off the end of words in formal settings.
LOL! I love it! :)
Oh! We got a new toy! We wanted to get the TomTom Navigation system because then we could have Ozzie Osborne give us directions or a cool Australian guy (I LOVE the way they say "fantastic"!). Evidently this one is a better system however so we got the street pilot and affectionately named her PamPam. If you heard her voice you'd understand - she just IS a Pam.
We've seen the sun rise while driving home, gotten in a lot of reading (thank goodness we can both read in the car), and put an unmerciful amount of miles on our car lately.
Tennessee really is beautiful at 5:30am!
And how did we manage all of this you ask? We've adopted a new friend on the road...
Coke's Full Throttle energy drink! Full Throttle Fury tastes like an orange drink, Red Bull tastes like liquid Skittles (yuck - trust me) - this is the one to go with when you want to arrive home in Nashville at 6am after a full day of work in Florida and still be wide awake and shaking all over from a caffeine rush! Ok so all I ever drink is water so results may vary. :) And now I must get back to work because there's much to be done before the drive to North Carolina this weekend for Meagan and Claes' wedding! I hope everyone is having a wonderful week! - Mel
