Our friends Paul and Bethany got married recently, and while my camera went kaflooey the day of the wedding, I do have some miscellaneous pre-wedding pics to post…
I wish I had gotten a better picture of the gym floor when we walked in the week before the wedding to work on the stage. A scratch-and-sniff would be even better, because this amount of bird doo-doo doesn’t come without some olfactory “benefits.”
Jonathan and the boys transformed four sections of bowling alley floor into a stage for the wedding. After figuring out how the sections were going to best fit together, they removed all the assorted boards, screws, and bolts from the undersides –
Then they used “new” plywood and osb (from the scrap lumber stock in the camp pole barn) to attach and stabilize the sections –
Andrew H. brought concrete blocks which we set up to hold the stage –
And when it was all ready, we took advantage of the bachelor party’s presence at camp to get the whole shabang flipped and in place –
The next Tuesday, in another display of brilliant use of scrap wood, Jonathan built stairs for the stage.
Cutting the stringers –
Andrew and Kate helping put the stairs together (note the AMAZING transformation of the gym in the background… and it was even better by wedding day!)
Andrew helping Daddy and Grandpa Smith –
Big projects take lots of teamwork (as evidenced by the gym transformation wrought by Paul and Bethany’s families on Resurrection Sunday) –
My (other than moral support and inspiration) contribution – the first coat of paint (with help from Mom Smith). Andrew H. finished the paint job the next day and the stairs looked terrific!
And then it was wedding day!!
The beautiful bride having her hair done. I don’t think she was the least bit excited when she got dressed that morning, do you?
And that’s when my camera went out, so I have no pictures of the bride dressed in her finery, the wedding, the reception, etc. But it was absolutely lovely and honoring to the Lord that Paul and Bethany serve. A fantastic day!
Haha… Your “excited” comment is enough to bring me out of lurkdom. 😉 Just for the record, Sarah’s the one who buttoned my shirt buttons in that pic. 😛
Hehe! I feel so accomplished to have lured you out of lurkdorm. 😉 Miss you, dear!