The Wedding - Mostly Pictures.

 

Getting Ready

Alyssa works at the Long Marine Lab, and it has the the Seymour Center,  dedicated to offering marine science and ocean conservation education to the public. So Alyssa got married at work, in a way. Dave and I had to be there at 3:30 for photos . Once the photos were taken we stood around drinking kava until it was time to get started. We brought a fleece blanket and a quilt for Bubby so she could be wrapped up and warm. Jen was fortunate to get the telescope for an extreme close-up of the event.

Then it was the wedding! Tim and Alyssa had written short speeches which were very sweet and touching and the wedding was beautiful. No rain! I look concerned in the photo because I'm worried about falling off of my shoes. Inside I am beaming!

After the ceremony we had some family photos taken, then there was touring the discovery center and the touch pools and learning that jellyfish’s mouths are also their butts and and watching the fat innkeeper worms in their u-shaped homes and also more kava and David Hill wine.

Dinner was buffet style and we had a table to ourselves. We got lots of good pictures of each other and ate the yummy food. I did have to laugh that there was chimichurri – what the boys used to call “yum sauce” to have with the tri-tip. Tim’s best man Rhys made a touching toast, and Alyssa’s sister Cara as well. Tim’s groomsmen were all former swim teammates, and they all looked so happy for Tim. He had some tough times in college and I imagine it was hard for these guys to see him go through it, so I think that made the wedding even more joyful. Tim and Alyssa both looked radiant throughout.

After dinner there was dancing, and since my best dance partner Jen was there we danced the night away. Josh took Bubby home when she was ready to go. We’d agreed to take all the leftover food and decorations, so we had to stay until the end. Tim and Alyssa left under an arch of friends holding candles in a heavy mist, with lots of love and cheering. Josh and Dave worked with the wedding coordinator to get everything loaded up – it turned out to pretty much fill the back of the navigator. Our original plan had been to take it all back to the house and drop it off at Tim and Alyssa’s in the morning, but we had a lot of stuff already and it would not all have fit. Rather than try to make it work by putting some in everyone’s cars, we just made a trip out to their place and dropped it off. It made for a later night but gave us some quiet time to kvell together.