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Robyn & Chris 01.23.10 Part I

It was wed­ding time! I hea­ded to Robyn’s room. 

The girls’ flo­wers — the pea­cock theme was amazing. 

And inte­gra­ted into every pos­si­ble place they could. Check out the fabu­lou­sity of those tights! All the ladies had them. 

Cloaks & dres­ses. Being January in DC and outside Robyn & Chris ensu­red that the gang would be ready to brave any weather.

Her mum hel­ped get her ready with care and precision.

After the dress was laced it was time to help Robyn get in her shoes. Well - — her foot­wear. AYKM!? HeckYES! 

Robyn does something top­sec­ret in NV. Ok, maybe it’s not top­sec­ret but I can’t remem­ber exactly. I know she flies jets though! After the last of the final touches we hea­ded to the Amphitheater.

I don’t know if you remem­ber all the snow that DC got this past winter. Well, luc­kily, that star­ted pretty much the day AFTER I left. The day of the wed­ding was unsea­so­nably warm and sheer per­fec­tion for an out­door after­noon wedding! 

Robyn’s sis­ters & the OMG so cute flo­wer girls.

Her dad wal­ked her down the stair­way and Chris met her at the bot­tom and wal­ked her the rest of the way to the stage. Look at their look! 

Chris’ parents & Robyn’s parents. They make me cry — so proud of their chil­dren! (and right­fully so!!) 

The Mason Dis­trict Park Amphithea­ter. Wow. 

The cere­mony was full of ama­zing sto­ries of the two of them. Having never met Chris and really only kno­wing Robyn casually it took no time at all for me to feel like I’d known these two fore­ver and to be com­ple­tely enve­lo­ped in the world that is their friends & family.

Done! I think Chris’ smile is going to leap right off his face! :) 

I can’t look at this without laugh-​crying. The ado­ra­ble red head had been sure she would help the sweet blonde. She thought she was right next to her and when she tur­ned to find her stum­bling a few steps back she was so concerned! 

Bird­seed in a park is a won­der­ful idea!

Until you rea­lize that the peo­ple you invi­ted to your wed­ding are ruth­less and chuc­king it at you full force! ;)

Maybe it was because I got to spend so much time with this group but I could not get enough of their inte­rac­tions and loving. 

Chris those are great boots — but — I think they’re sort of outshi­ned by the green bling platforms! 

I have to say that the advan­tage to being so behind in my blogs is get­ting to relive this over again all this time later. It still feels like yes­ter­day! And wait til you see the recep­tion — I wish we could do it all over again tomorrow!!

…to be continued… 

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Destination: Funville 01.22.10

aka Spring­field, VA.

Social net­wor­king is the stran­gest thing. 

In 1998 I took my first plane trip ever to Syra­cuse, NY to visit a friend at SU. I sta­yed with him in his ‘frat house’. There I met Robyn. She was viva­cious and fabu­lous and she taught me how to drink Cider­Jack (like a champ). We sta­yed in touch via email & AIM for a little while but as with most things the con­tact dwindled.

Some­time about 5 years ago, when mys­pace was still cool, I thought I’d search her. With a very uni­que last name I was sure I’d found her and we exchan­ged OMG’s.

Mys­pace was never my favo­rite. It was too hard to do/​see/​be. Then came face­book. We frien­ded. She announ­ced she was enga­ged. I jokingly pim­ped myself out. Novem­ber 2009, I get a mes­sage, asking if I was serious and would I tra­vel to the DC area to shoot her wed­ding. In January?!

y.e.s.

So after my whirl­wind second half of 2009 I caught my breath, pac­ked my bags, and boar­ded a fight to this des­ti­na­tion wed­ding. Only I would have a des­ti­na­tion wed­ding in DC in January. I didn’t care, I was SO exci­ted. It was also the first time ever I’d taken a trip com­ple­tely alone. (yes, I was 31. sheesh)

I made it in one piece! Flight, Lug­gage, Metro, Shuttle, Hotel, Rehear­sal! (Des­ti­na­tion wed­ding fact: If the tra­vel plans inc­lude me arri­ved and sett­led by the time of your rehearsal/​dinner — I’m there & shoo­ting as a bonus!)

The wed­ding was taking place at the Mason Dis­trict Park Amphithea­ter and after a somewhat … loud & glee­ful reu­nion in the hotel lobby we hea­ded off. 

The boys

The pro­ces­sion 

The girls. 

The din­ner. Which was at a chi­nese res­tau­rant which had the best ever ‘beef candy’ I’ve ever had. Ever. I have no idea what it was but I still want it at least twice a month. 

Argh! Delinquent blog­ger stri­kes again. I know that I took this pic­ture on the left with pur­pose, there was a story. But.. uh… Bueller? 

The bride and groom. I think this is the for bet­ter or worse before and after. HAHA ;)

By the time I left I was SO exci­ted for the wed­ding. This small sam­pling of their loved ones & friends and family was so ama­zing — I could only ima­gine what the next day had to bring!

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