30th Anniversary Party August 22, 2010

What's a Saturday family wedding without another party on Sunday?! In our case, we decided to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary with a Vow Renewal Ceremony, as led by Rev. Jen and Father Monte Peters (who co-officiated in 1980 in Hudson, Quebec), followed by champagne toasts and a lobster feed for about 60 family and friends! It was wonderful and brought back many memories of that hot day 30 years ago!

Uncle Art leading "the bride" down the breezeway



















The Reverend Jen with her opening words



















Father Monte and Rev. Jen



















The rings were blessed again (Pat is sporting a new one, having outgrown the original!)














Steph led the prayers



















Art gave a toast to the bride, reminiscing from his original speech of 1980 and calling Kathie, "the project manager" for the lakehouse construction!














That was a funny story! Father Monte and Julianne



















Cheers! To the "bride"!



















Half of our original attendants joined us: Beth, Wendy, Kathie, Pat and Francis














30 years later...some of our guests!














That's a lot of carats...Steph, Kathie and Jen!














And that's a lot of white gold...Kathie, Pat, Jen, Ben, Steph and Lou













Cakes baked by Jen, using the original German Pound Cake recipe from 1980 (from June Coldwell, Bathurst, NB)



























Pictures by brother, Terry:






































Kathie's wedding dress hanging on the clothesline!



















Kathie and Wendy, Maid of Honour and long-time friend from Kindergarten!














Brian and McKenzie with renovated and repainted children's Adirondack chairs and table, originally belonging to Kathie, then later Jen and Steph!














The Seamone family: Luke, Ben, Jen, Laura-Lee and Gary


























What a lovely day we all enjoyed! Sunshine, a perfect blue sky, good food and the company of our family and long-time friends! Here's to another 30 years!

And now, I'm all caught up! Enjoy the blogs! Hasta luego!