May 20, 2009 9:48 AM
Counting down - 55 hours to BenAnna's wedding
Taking a break from the controlled chaos at our house as we prepare to send Ben off to a lifetime with Anna (see BenAnna engaged!).
Cleaning, making grocery lists, organizing. A houseful of mom, dad 9 kids expecting an influx of four college friends of Ben's for beginning festivities and bachelor party tomorrow.
Gearing up for a rehearsal dinner for 60 here tomorrow night. Then I can just relax and show up for the wedding.
Sometimes life comes at you fast. Sometimes I look back on Josh's birth eight months after Tripp and I got married (anyone can do the math but I'm just glad that two counterculture creatures like us decided to get married - though we didn't know Him then, 26 years and 10 kids later Tripp still says God pulled a shotgun wedding) and I feel like that part in Star Wars where they rocket into hyperspace. Like I've been in the whooshing part now for 26 years and it doesn't look like it will be letting up any time soon :)
It's really been a happy time of children and grandchildren weeding, cleaning and getting ready for our part of this wonderful time when two young people who've approached marriage with purity are finally able to be united in a bond made stronger by their honoring it this way.
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Art notes: Signing the Register by Edmund Blair Leighton
British artist Edmund Blair Leighton (1853 - 1922) was a pre-Raphaelite artist who created fastidiously crafted medieval and regency scenes that elegantly recreate a romantic, chivalrous past. Leighton, who studied at the prestigious Royal Academy and exhibited there for more than 40 years, spurned a job in the office of a tea merchant to follow his artistic ambitions. His work contained themes of courtship or weddings, often characterized by long, richly colored dresses, perceptively painted with flow and ripple that expressed both motion and rest. Leighton's exquisitely romanticized historical scenes are frequently reproduced as posters today.
Comments
God bless them (and you) on this journey!
Posted by: Charlotte (Matilda) | May 20, 2009 10:09 AM
People shortchange themselves when they don't approach marriage as Ben and Anna have. It's so nice to look forward to more than just wedding cake after the wedding -- and so special.
Posted by: Reen | May 20, 2009 12:50 PM
Enjoy this special time with them and your family.
May God bless and keep them as they begin this wonderful new season of life.
You are in my prayers.
Posted by: A Mac and a Mug O' Joe | May 20, 2009 2:33 PM
Congratulations! What a wonderful time. Hope that everything goes well and what doesn't makes for good memories.
Posted by: Sue from Buffalo | May 20, 2009 3:02 PM
Congratulations to you all--
God bless them.
Posted by: Julana | May 20, 2009 6:27 PM
Congratulations! Soak it up =)
Posted by: Marian | May 20, 2009 6:37 PM
I know you posted the Broccoli salad recipe. . .YUM! But, if you get a chance in the near future (post wedding recovery, perhaps?) would you tell us all about your rehearsal dinner menu? I just love hearing about how people serve large groups!
Happy Wedding Day. . .and Many Blessings for the happy couple!
Posted by: Franchelle | May 20, 2009 7:16 PM
