A Wedding!

I've had a few people say to me lately that they've been stalking checking my blog for wedding photos... and where are they??!!
To be honest the last week has flown by but also I didn't get many photos on the day so had to wait for some to come through.
Last weekend we welcomed Nick into our family when our eldest daughter Tarn and he were married. We tried not to get too worried before hand but it was a wet week — we had torrential rain on Thursday, more rain on Friday and rain all through the night on Friday night too.

It was nice and cozy in the marquee to set up the day before...

However Saturday dawned clear (enough!) —

Look - it's fine enough to put the chairs out!

And here comes the bride!

Aren't they all so pretty?

Proud parents ♥

My lovely family.
Sadly, our daughter-in-law and the wee girls weren't able to get over for the
weekend.

The gorgeous (and yummy) cake, lolly bar (and, not shown, Rum bar).

(Apparently the cake lady was ankle deep in water in her downstairs kitchen while desperately trying to finish the cake. And using heat lamps galore too!)

The first dance...followed by a party that lasted deep into the night!

The photo below shows the beautiful view from where we were, at Tutukaka, Northland. The venue was a motel complex with enough units for everybody to stay the weekend. That meant lots of family time and fun. It was a wonderful day and weekend.

We were so lucky with the weather, on Sunday morning we were sure the marquee was going to take off, kite style; it was so wet and wild. And the farm flooded while we were away too - in fact the relief milker had to borrow a tractor and drive through flood waters to get to our farm to milk the cows!

After all the excitement, life is getting back to normal and it's hard to believe it was only just over a week ago!

It feels like I"ve been out of blogland forever, but it's just been a week or so.....I'm hoping to catch up on what everyone's been up to soon!

'till next time,

happy stitches :-)