Robyn & Chris 01.23.10 Part II

After fro­lic­king through the for­mals we hea­ded to the Burke Volun­teer Fire & Res­cue Firehall for the recep­tion. One of the first things I saw when I got to the recep­tion was this: A keg and goblet of Guin­ness. If I hadn’t been madly in love with these two before, that would have firmly pla­ced me in their court. A goblet of Guin­ness? YUM!

Chris & Robyn love each other with every inch of them­sel­ves. It’s ins­pi­ring and overwhel­ming to watch.

It was time for the toasts and they had a spe­cial bottle of sparkly just for them. Until Chris didn’t know how to open it and broke off to top. What do you see Chris??  

Some crea­tive uncor­king and success!

Once they’d figu­red out how to get into the booze it was time for the speeches. Sarah’s sis­ters & Chris’ brother both did won­der­ful jobs of toas­ting.. and roas­ting.. their siblings. 

Much to their cha­grin perhaps…  

Yay parents! 

Taking his wife — and his Guin­ness for a swing

Thank you. Here’s your knife.

Sword.

Wha­te­ver. 

I love this photo. A lot.

I’m not sure how far she thought she had to throw the bou­quet but I love the con­cen­tra­tion on the left, and the posing on the right! 

Aw.. how sweet. 

Heh, or not so much  

There’s only one guy even pre­ten­ding to get it. The guy in the pur­ple swea­ter is just dan­cing.

And then. Well. And then the hila­rity ensued. It was good Robyn didn’t have a veil with all these other head­dress options avai­la­ble for her. 

Get it? He’s got top guns?

1million points to whoe­ver can guess this song.

Glas­ses are overrated! 

One of the last songs of the eve­ning. This is NOT the YMCA.. I step­ped out of the room for a moment and when I came back they were sin­ging about pira­tes and eyes and boo­ties… and hilarity. 

Party till your shoes fall apart! 

And as a shout out to my ‘superhu­man­po­wers’ it turns out that the sore throat and run-​down-​ed-​ness I thought was just stress & exci­te­ment of an all alone trip tur­ned out to be a hella­ciouis case of strep and a fever of 102. But that wasn’t to worry about and dis­co­ver until I was home and Robyn & Chris were well on their way to hap­pily ever after!

I’m pretty sure that words will never truly be able to desc­ribe the awe­so­me­ness that was this adventure. Thank you Robyn & Chris for such an oppor­tu­nity! Let’s hope it’s not another 13 years before we get together again!

Oh my lord, Melissa!! These are ama­zing.…!! You caught so many aspects of this day that I thought were unpal­pa­ble… you are won­der­ful! I would like to post something on your web­site, if that’s alright!
Thank you again, you really made that day so spe­cial.… and allo­wed me to relive it again when I went through those pic­tu­res.” ~ Robyn