Cousin Marian threw a huge bash Saturday to celebrate her husband Rowan's 90th birthday. They invited relatives, friends, professional colleagues, the whole ward--even the girl at the local McDonald's who sells Rowan his daily Egg McMuffin.
Marian had family members come early for pictures and introductions. A woman in our ward has been helping Marian track down Rowan's long-lost family members and several were in attendance, including Rowan's son and niece and some distant cousins. It was lovely to meet them.
It was a great party, complete with killer Mexican food from El Cholo (still salivating over it), Southwest decorations, a bouncy house for the kids and a roving Mariachi band.
Mom heard from Marian that a bunch of kids had walked/bounced on the pool cover during the party--foul! An adult woman had also tried to walk across it and got wet when it sank under her weight. I can understand little kids not knowing better than to walk on the pool cover, but an adult?! WTF?
Marian & Rowan's party was a great dry run for the wedding, which will also take place in their yard. I got to see where to stage the ceremony and the reception tables and food set-up (we won't have food on the upstairs patio with poor ingress/egress, for example). Plus I got to see where the sun hits the yard at various times of day so we aren't fire-roasting the wedding guests.
I'm hoping against hope it won't be as blazingly hot on July 22 as it was Saturday. The yard has plenty of shade, thankfully, but if it's over 100 degrees, we could quite possibly drown in our own sweat regardless.
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I'll second your wishes for not-so-hot. When we talked to David's sister over the weekend, and told her you were planning a garden wedding, she was incredulous: "A garden wedding? In Pasadena? In JULY?!?!?"
So, we'll be planning on as little clothing as possible, but we'll try to keep it relatively decorous for your mom's sake. ;) I'm thinking lots of linen.
Wishing the wedding dress was linen. You'd think tulle would breathe with all those little holes, but nooooo.
The yard DOES have a lot of trees and shade, but when it's over 100 standing in the shade only helps a little.
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