This was written June 22, 2009. Â I don’t know why I never uploaded it. Â I guess I just got too busy. Â Sorry.
-Adam
So, I now have no unmarried siblings. Â My only sister became Dr. Laurel Newman over the weekend. Â It was so much fun to travel down to see my family and be there to celebrate with her. Â The wedding took place in the wedding garden at our farm that has been in preparation for a few years now.
It actually started out with Laurel deciding (long before she met Michael), that she wanted to have a garden wedding and that it would be nice to have said garden at Green Cedars farm (that’s right, my parents have a named farm). Â Dad was brought on board when he realized he would get to build a second barn for the reception. Â They built the “party barn” two years ago, in time for the wedding reception we had in Pensacola about 3 weeks after Rebecca and I got married, and the wedding garden was planted before that so that all the large shrubs would be full size in time.
Mom and Dad put a lot of work into the planning and care-taking and it was fun to be a part of the preparations. Â I apparently missed out on one of the most fun moments of the weekend (I was at the bachelor party), when many of my cousins went a little crazy shucking corn.
Everything was beautiful and “just so” and I think Laurel had the wedding she really wanted.
Laurel was the last in several groups we grew up in to get married. Â We have 3 cousins who were born within a few years of us, and of the five she was the last to marry (although Jake got married just 2 months ago). Â We also grew up with the Tyner children (although they all got married before I did).
It was nice to be so much a part of something. Â Most weddings that I have attended, aside from my own, have just required me to find a nice seat and maybe stand in the back of some picture. Â I enjoyed having some responsibilities and being able to help out. Â It was also nice to have my wife sing a song at my sister’s wedding. Â I love that girl. Â We had two arduous 9-hour drives over the weekend and I fell more in love with her. Â Maybe it was the book she was reading to me.