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Arriving at the Reception Just a few minutes rest, that's all we need... (Jill, Erin, Char, Ken, Henry) |
Jacob's First Drink A White Russian. I'm shocked. |
The Couple Arrives And they're still happy! Huzzah! (John, Ray, Mel, Sarah) |
Wedding Party Introductions I didn't get my camera to Jeff fast enough to get a shot of me, but that's okay; here's Henry and Gen. |
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Jacob and Charlotte, Incoming I think I'm really more excited about the sheer numbers of people around us... |
John and Erin ...both that they're happy, and that I know them. |
Ray and Mel Poppers! I didn't see poppers! [...] Well, I guess I saw their droppings later, but I didn't make the connection for some reason. |
Parents Mom and Dad came for the reception, which was cool. (Also of note: Chuck getting a shot of me on the left.) |
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Kevin It'd been a while since I'd seen him. Yay! |
Wedding Party Table Well, part of us anyway. And the flash. But at least you can see me sitting there, patiently... |
Wedding Party Table, For Real That's all of us this time. |
Best Man's Toast John makes comments about how both of them had vowed never to marry... |
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Iron Matron's Toast ...and Erin just comments on how right they are for each other. |
Dinner Begins Well, I had been eating for a while at this point, but for most people... |
Dinner Continues Those were tasty veggies. |
Dinner Continues, with Tripod The tripod was a good idea. I should have used it more. |
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Wedding Table, From Me This is the closest we got to actually getting a picture of the food. |
Camera Commences Time to get shots of the various tables, starting with my own. |
"American President" Table Darren, Jeff, Rebecca, Tim, Chuck, Kevin, Sarah, and Kevin. |
"Eternal Sunshine of..Spotless Mind" Table Pat, Beth, Hadas, Tunji, Smoot, Bill, Duck. Ben's lack of presence was also noted. |
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"Empire Records" Table Sean, Rachel, Eva, Jon, Andrew, Nicole, Randall, Caitte. |
Rachel's Camera I think I really took this picture to get a shot of the label...but that's okay. |
"High Fidelity" Table I didn't get everyone here. DB, Raché, Sarah, and Jesse are visible; Rene, Erin Burns, and her Boy are not. |
"American Beauty" Table Mostly Mel's family. I recognize Donna and my Father here, but that's about it... (Bad Tim!) |
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Wrong Name Poor Beth. She hates it when people spell her name with a 'z' instead of an 's'; luckily, pens are easy to come by. |
Sarah talks to the Couple I think it was so she could take off early. Bad Sarah! |
Clink-Kiss The flash adds *something* to this shot, though perhaps it also takes just as much away. |
Mingling Behold! The tables mix! (And I get a picture of Mom...) |
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Cake In its unmolested state. It's not as cool as the one that Mel made, though. |
Heading to Cut the Cake So many ceremonies. |
Mid-Cutting Kiss They really are happy. |
Awaiting Instruction Well, do *you* know what the whole procedure is? |
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Instruction Arrives Wedding planners are helpful sometimes. |
Cutting Commences Alliteration rocks. |
More Cutting Need a close-up of the knife... |
Close-up of the Knife ...like, say, this! |
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Cameras Everybody gets shots of these things. Heh. |
Feeding Mel It was even edible (non-chocolate!) Hooray! |
Feeding Ray The flash-light from the mirror is easier to handle here, at least. |
Fleeing the Cake ...before the cake fight to end all cake fights begins, and the tuxes are destroyed. A sensible plan. |
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Rene I hadn't seen Rene for years; man, she looks good! |
Jesse and Sarah They're off to New Mexico together next month. *smile* I wish them the best of luck... |
Mel and the Erins They hadn't seen each other for, what, five years? |
Mel and the Erins, II Best friends of old, together again. If Ray and Mel needed a reason to get married, this'd do it. |
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Andrew and Nicole What to say? This was where I first met her, and she did a good job of introducing herself... |
Bill He was probably the most normally dressed of my friends at the wedding. So deceptive, Bill... |
Bouqet Toss Why couldn't I go for it? Grr. |
Bouqet Targets I could have taken 'em! |
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Bouquet Toss - Victor! Well, at least theoretically. |
Victor, for real Mel has informed me that her name is Amanda. Hooray! Another of Mel's friends, named! |
Posing with Bouqet They do look happy; of course, the photographer got something better, I'm sure. |
Garter Toss I had to get this shot quick so I could get into this one... |
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Garter Targets Don't I look calm? Composed? Yeah. Sure. |
Garter Toss Commences Guess who wants it the most? |
Garter Toss - Victor! Hehehe! Now I have a matched set! |
My Garter To complete the triple crown, I must now marry myself to myself. I wonder how the Republican Party feels about self-marriage? |
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First Dance As is tradition, too many pictures must be taken of this dance. |
First Dance, II Many of these pictures will have red-eye. |
First Dance, III ...or inadequate lighting. (How did I get back there, anyway?) |
First Dance, IV But the love will be apparent anyway. |
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First Dance, V Even thrthe strange facial expressions. |
Pre-Dancing Resting Eva, Sean, and Belle take a break from...nothing yet. |
Father-Daughter Dance "Why are there so many songs about rainbows..." |
Father-Daughter Dance, II "...and what's on the other side?" |
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Father-Daughter Dance, III The Rainbow Connection was the first song I heard in a movie. It really is one of my favorites, and I know it's a lot of others'... And yet, I was still shocked when they said they were going to use it. |
Watching the Dancing It was sweet. Touching. Moving. |
Watching the Dancing, II I know many tears were shed during that dance... |
Mother-Son Dance I think I had only met Ray's parents once before the wedding, so I have hard time really gauging their emotions, but the pride and love certainly came through. |
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Mother-Son Dance, II They should have done Rainbow Connection again, though. |
Bouqet and Garter I'm glad Beth isn't the jealous type. I was in a good position there... |
Bouquet and Garter, II Sadly, the garter was later lost. Still, Amanda and I looked quite cute together here (The photographer got a shot of that too, which I'd better get a copy of.) |
Wedding Party Dances Pairing off with our partners, because it's the right thing to do. Let's get this party started! |
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Sarah and Tim Again, I'm glad Beth's not the jealous type. |
Wedding Party Dances, II John and Erin; Jill and Ken. Whee. |
Wedding Party Dances - Jacob and Charlotte Awww.... |
Wedding Party Dances - Tim and Sarah Note my garter. (Also note that Sarah stole the garter by the end of the night...) |
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Jacob and Charlotte, Again With the added bonus of advertising our DJ! Whee! |
Tunji and Smoot So happy to see each other... FOR NOW. Oh, wait, I shouldn't be foreboding. |
Bill and Duck Here you can tell the difference between Bill and Duck: Bill's evil is visible in the eyes; Duck's is not. |
Real Dancing Well, find, just not slow dancing. And some are still doing that anyway. Fine, I just didn't want to sit down yet... |
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More Real Dancing I'm sure I looked ridiculous, but did I care? Baah! |
Dancing w/Belle Now came the time of dragging people onto the floor because they wouldn't come themselves...that, and I was really happy to see Belle. (And Pat.) |
John and Mel I'm still amused by that hair. |
Swinging Darren Beware his long reach and sharp dance partners! |
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Pat and Erin I think Pat wore the hat just so he'd be more recognizable. Heh. |
Ray and Caitte Kinda out of focus, but I gotta hold onto shots of the Short One. |
Mid-Dancing Discussion How dare they talk during the dancing! (f course, what do you think I'm doing?) |
Darren Dances I think the purpose of Darren going to weddings is to fling girls around for a few hours. |
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Hip Skirv Look! I dance! Whee! |
Mel and Blake Does it really matter if he's out of the "girls are icky" stage yet? (I'm in the background too.) |
Char and Mike I think that's the first shot where I thought that Charlotte looked like Mel. Odd. |
Tunji and Smoot, II Never seen Tunji in a headlock before. Not me. |
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Calm Tunji Look! The two aren't fighting! |
Caitte and Randall Dance There's lots of dancing pictures, in case you hadn't noticed. |
Swinging the Bride Mel enjoys it at least. And she doesn't fall over much. |
Caitte and Tim I love my sister. I really do. |
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Caitte and Tim, II Seeing her was one of the top pleasures of the night... |
Mel and Hadas I'm not sure why Hadas looks weird here, but... it's not far off, just a bit odd. Probably just different hair than the last time I saw her. |
Rebecca and Tim Dance *smile* |
Tunji and Smoot, III I love how fast we fall back into our old patterns. |
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Erin and Ray They'd been friends for years, I guess they get a dance... |
Tunji Already getting drunk. Heh. |
Duck Carrying one of the old poppers. He's happy. |
Sean and Rachel These folks I should see more often. But... |
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John, Andrew, and Nicole Nicole seemed cool. And it's always nice to hang out with Andrew, if for no other reason than to compare notes on our workplaces... |
Beth and Pat She actually had a good time! I was shocked. |
Hadas How many years had it been since I'd seen her? Three? Four? |
Ray's Sister's Table As usual, I wish I knew their names. Besides Cindy and Blake, anyway. |
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Dancing Galore It was self-supporting by then, but we were stil lenjoying ourselves. |
Kevin and Jill A little private time. Just a little. |
Rebecca and Tim I had missed their engagement party; this kinda made up for it. (Don't forget Kevin either.) |
Watching From Afar Well, Bill spotted me doing it anyway. |
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Old Folks, Plus Smoot It looks like Rene's looking to claw out Caitte's heart, though. That's bad. But Smoot's look is good. |
Hair Rene, DB, and Caitte's hair styles are very different. (Yeah, I'm stretching here...but I kept 366 pictures for this wedding. 366!) |
Jeff and Tim You know, we really do get along pretty well. I should take greater note of this fact. |
Y I think this was YMCA. I hope it was. I certainly look interesting, though... |
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Belle and Seal A very dapper hat, don't you think? |
Rene and Mike Mike, who is pretty drunk by this time, really is having a good time. As is Rene, to be honest. Okay, fine, we all were... except maybe a few of us weren't drunk, but were still having a good time. |
Tunji and Smoot, IV The headlocks continue! So drunk, both of 'em... |
More dancing Isn't Darren's shirt shiny? |
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Darren and Caitte That's a gleeful look on Caitte's face. Neat. |
Rene and Tim I need to talk to Rene more often. I really do. |
Rockin' Girl And so enter the inflatable props! That's what we needed. Props! |
Rockin' Eva Shake it, Eva, shake it! |
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Pat's Keyboard He liked that keyboard. Oh yes he did! |
Belle "Why can't I have an inflatable guitar?" |
Dancing, Dancing, Dancing Rachel and Eva fill in for the rest of us by continuing to dance.Dancing, Dancing, Dancing |
Andrew and Nicole, Resting At least they have instruments. |
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Dancing Skirv Beth enjoyed getting some shots of me dancing to Disco songs. |
Tim and Pat We're having far too good a time, you know... |
Tim, Eva, and Mel Dance So...happy... |
Erin, Ken, and Ray The old Edwardsville crowd, drunk and happy. |
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...and Gen makes Four Gotta add more people into our little circle, eh? |
Rocking Out Pat and Tim play our inflatable instruments for all they're worth. |
ROCK ON! There was a slight shadow there, but man, they looked happy anyway. I love this shot. |
Headbanging I didn't know Caitte's hair could do that. |
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