This was written June 22, 2009. I don’t know why I never uploaded it. I guess I just got too busy. Sorry.
-Adam
So, I now have no unmarried siblings. My only sister became Dr. Laurel Newman over the weekend. It was so much fun to travel down to see my family and be there to celebrate with her. 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). Dad was brought on board when he realized he would get to build a second barn for the reception. 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. 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. 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). 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. 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. I enjoyed having some responsibilities and being able to help out. It was also nice to have my wife sing a song at my sister’s wedding. I love that girl. We had two arduous 9-hour drives over the weekend and I fell more in love with her. Maybe it was the book she was reading to me.