A fine wedding!
Saturday we were happy participants in the wedding of Carol Ford (UMM Science Division Office Goddess, excellent musician, and master gardener) and Chuck Waibel (writer and co-conspirator in Carol’s winter CSA project).
The wedding was a wonderfully relaxed outdoor affair at Earthrise Farm, with various pets and farm animals wandering rather freely in and out of the ceremony. The “dress code” was relaxed and fun; Carol’s litmus test was to ask yourself if “I look good and I could wear this for hours without itching”. A key feature was the almost complete lack of schmaltz, which is pretty uncommon, especially in primarily “roll your own” weddings.
I took a wrong turn at one point that lost us 10 minutes or so on the way down, and we were consequently concerned that we were cutting it a bit close on the time. Conveniently, the bride’s father got even more lost on his way in, and was in fact quite a bit later than us. Since they weren’t going to start without him, this give us (and several others) plenty of time to mingle and chat despite the time of our arrival.
After the ceremony, we headed over to the Dawson Town Hall for a fine potluck reception party, including tons of excellent music from their many talented friends. Sub-Evil Boy and I even got to do two of our songs ( “Crabgrass” and “Taco Man”) to what was an almost entirely new audience, which was fun.
Congratulations to Carol and Chuck, and best wishes for a long and happy life together! If you’re really bored you can check out the less bad of the zillions of photos I took. Watch it as a slide show on the high speed setting, and parts are almost like a really bad animated GIF of the event!
