Aeron and Jake's Wedding

Families often meet up only at weddings and funerals but our family is a bit different.  We get together in small or large groups (family reunions) quite often and that forms very strong bonds.  We've been pretty lucky in that we seem to have more weddings than funerals, too.

Aeron and Jake got married on Friday and it was a great rejoicing for both families.  We all could see that this was a special pairing between 2 unique but wonderful human beings who, I'm very sure, will survive everything that life throws at them.

Cindy found a beautiful B&B for our family to stay at in Welland (Rose Manor)...we took up every bedroom so that was nice.  The house was huge and very old but excellently kept up with lovely gardens and porches.  Our hosts, Ellie and Gary, made us all feel as though we were their own relatives who were visiting and the breakfasts (Friday and Saturday mornings) were very posh!

Don arranged for bus/van to pick us all up at the house and take us to the wedding venue in Fonthill.  It was set in the golf course clubhouse and beautifully done.  Aeron had not wanted a big wedding but we'd ended up with over 130 guests for it between lots of family and lots of friends.  Shelley, John, Lisette, Danny, Nicole and Sam came up from the States...they would travel the world to make sure they didn't miss one of our family occasions!  I love my family!

Faye and I left early...too old and too tired to party long...and I decided to sleep in the maid's quarters instead of in the room I'd shared with Kim the night before.  She snores tooooo loud!

We'd been told an interesting story about how the original owner of the house had an affair with the maid that ended in a pregnancy.  These old houses must have a million stories behind them.

We all headed home on Saturday where most of us napped and then joined up again at Cindy's for a barbecue in the evening.  Matt picked me up because it would be too dark to drive home.  Aeron and Jake joined our group later in the evening and they're the ones who drove me home.  They're not leaving for their honeymoon for a couple of weeks and it will be to South Africa.  

In all, it was a glorious family occasion that every one of us could celebrate.