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Hilmar Cheese Factory The reception took place at the Hilmar Cheese Factory. |
The Greeter Guarding the gift pile; it's nice that the building provided someone for that role. |
The Couple I hadn't seen John and Nicole since I left Champaign, it was good to finally see them. |
Meeting the Guests I knew pretty much nobody at the reception |
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Bridesmaid I've been promised some names as soon as I get these pictures up; that ought to help. |
Tourist Trap The place is a bit of a tourist attraction... |
Clothing Table ...so of course they sold miscellaneous clothing. |
Lots of Guests More people started coming in later. |
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Empty Banquet Hall Don't worry, the people were coming. |
The Cake It was a pretty cake. |
The Cake, II And not all of it was chocolate! |
Looking Downstairs Again, naming the woman will help... |
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Random Tourists I like that it was going on downstairs. |
Cow Milking Machine They had a mock cow setup; sadly, they had to hide it away for the wedding. But that didn't stop me from taking pictures of it. |
More Guests I'm looking forward to that help. |
More Family That little girl had a very, very good time. |
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Filling Up There were a good number of people there, eventually. |
Head Table I recognize John's sister, anyway, in the blue dress! |
Cake and Kid That kid looks like the woman is going to take away his strawberries... |
Kid and Strawberries Strawberries are good in our section of the country, remember. |
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Empty Front Table Soon, everyone will sit down... or maybe I'm just worried that I'm doing a bad job of labelling and feeling guilty about it. |
More Friends I think these were John's old college friends, but I could be wrong. |
DJs I wonder if they knew how much swing dancing John and Nicole really wanted? |
Dinner The food was tasty. This was the salad. |
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Dinner, II This was the rest of it, though it was less interesting. |
More Tables Again, I need for John to help with this one. |
One More Downstairs Spices and cheeses and hot sauce, oh my! |
Girl and Mirror Or at least it looks like there's a mirror there somewhere... |
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Front Table Girl She looks so small! So cute! |
Front Table Girl, II And then she looks like a regular obnoxious kid again. Heh. |
Pictures of Front Table I wasn't the only one with a camera. |
Receiving at the Table It's part of the deal. |
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John's Dad's Speech Well, more of a "dinner-time!" |
Cheese Gathering It was rather good cheese. |
Best Man Speech I had to give one of these a few weeks later, so it was good to watch this for ideas. |
Best Man Speech, II He did a good job, and he mentioned Settlers of Catan. Heh. |
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Toast To the new couple! |
Maid of Honor Speech I didn't have to study this one as much... |
Cutting the Cake Their smiles were genuine. |
Cutting the Cake, II It wasn't all chocolate! Hooray! |
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Feeding Each Other Is this really a cute custom? |
Feeding Each Other, II I guess it depends on the people. |
Feeding Each Other, III John and Nicole certainly enjoyed it. |
Post-Feeding Back to work! |
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Camera Phone Pictures of pictures, always fun. |
John and Dad I had never met him before that day, but I had heard him spoken of often enough. |
Looking Outside Yep, that's the outside! It's warm out there! |
Through the Bars Not much to say, except "cute". |
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First Dance John and Nicole like to dance. |
First Dance, II Interestingly, their first dance was fairly traditional... |
First Dance, III ...but there was some swinging. |
First Dance, IV You could see that they were holding back, though. |
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First Dance, V They'd do it right soon enough. |
First Dance, VI Everyone was enthralled with this much dancing. |
Daddy-Daughter Dance Nicole danced with John's Dad? |
Mother-Son Dance I think this is John's Mom, anyway. |
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Waiting for the Dance To End Soon enough it'll end. |
John/Mom Swinging Well, it's in his blood. |
Wedding Party Dance | Wedding Party Dance, II |
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Open Dance The entire family ended up there at this point. |
Open Dance, II Oddly, the entire average dancing quality was higher than usual. |
Open Dance, III Or maybe I'm just making that up for rhetorical value. |
Open Dance, IV But how often do you see kids at that angle? |
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First Real Dance Here's where the swinging started up. |
First Real Dance, II They're really good at this stuff. |
First Real Dance, III And they're having a *good time*, too. |
First Real Dance, IV I hadn't really had too many opportunities to see John dance before... |
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First Real Dance, V ...it was really quite impressive. |
First Real Dance, VI And the joy on their faces? |
First Real Dance, VII I'm glad they found each other. |
First Real Dance, VIII I'm glad they found someone that could share each other's interests. |
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First Real Dance, IX I'm just so happy for them. |
Dancing Families The kids were having a good time. |
Friends of Old College friends are the best friends. |
Dancing Queen Only...7? |
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Girl and Mom The Mom was so proud of her daughter. |
Girl and Mom, II Yeah, she was having a good time. |
One Last Girl I'm glad to see she had such a good time. |
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