Placerville Wedding (II)
Sep. 20th, 2014 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aToday Melody and Jared got married.
The event was at Jared's parents' house, which is up in the hills above Placerville. On the maps it looks pretty close to the freeway, but it turns out you have to go up and around any number of windy streets to get there. The house has a real rural feel to it as a result, deep in a wooded, hilly area. The house and the land were both beautiful.
We all had some concerns about smoke from the King Fire, but the winds were very well behaved today, and there was barely a hint of smoke or fire. What there was was a constant stream of helicopters and planes landing at the nearby airport and then lifting back up to bring water to the blaze.
The ceremony itself was surprisingly short: Jared and Melody suddenly materialized at the front of the crowd and quickly agreed to wed and exchanged rings. Jared kissed Melody, who afterward laughingly asked if he wash't supposed to wait until the officiant (one of Jared's friends) said to kiss the bride. Kimberly claimed I was crying because I'm such a sentimentalist, and I said it was just smoke from the fire.
In general, it was a really nice day. Jared's parents did a wonderful job hosting everything. Before the ceremony, Janet produced great appetizers that were catered quality (or better) and then afterward there was a great dinner including Jim's wonderful grilled pork ribs and great salad and other stuff. There were three cheesecakes for the cake, one of which was chocolate and therefore very yummy.
The backyard where the ceremony was held directly backed up on woods and there was a lot of wildlife at the event as a result. We saw a half-dozen deer wandering a hundred feet or so above the backyard at various times, looking enviously at the grassy area. Then when we were eating dinner a praying mantis suddenly appeared in one of our centerpieces. I finally had to move him to safety out in the flowers in the backyard when it began looking like he was going to leap upon my dad.
The surprise visitor at the party was (literally) rain on their wedding day. Well after dinner had descended into talking we began to see sheet lightning and hear thunder, and then rain began to patter down on the tents covering the eating area. It lightly rained for 5 or 10 minutes before it let off. A pretty wonderful end to the day after six months of dry (and three years of drought).
Now that we're back on the House on the Hill, the thunder and lightning is continuing with increased vigor. The lights even flickered out for a second with one of the strikes, but fortunately bounced back on. We did, however, lose our internet for a while. And some of the thunder rolls and rolls and rolls. We never get this sort of weather in the Bay Area, so I'm loving it.
The event was at Jared's parents' house, which is up in the hills above Placerville. On the maps it looks pretty close to the freeway, but it turns out you have to go up and around any number of windy streets to get there. The house has a real rural feel to it as a result, deep in a wooded, hilly area. The house and the land were both beautiful.
We all had some concerns about smoke from the King Fire, but the winds were very well behaved today, and there was barely a hint of smoke or fire. What there was was a constant stream of helicopters and planes landing at the nearby airport and then lifting back up to bring water to the blaze.
The ceremony itself was surprisingly short: Jared and Melody suddenly materialized at the front of the crowd and quickly agreed to wed and exchanged rings. Jared kissed Melody, who afterward laughingly asked if he wash't supposed to wait until the officiant (one of Jared's friends) said to kiss the bride. Kimberly claimed I was crying because I'm such a sentimentalist, and I said it was just smoke from the fire.
In general, it was a really nice day. Jared's parents did a wonderful job hosting everything. Before the ceremony, Janet produced great appetizers that were catered quality (or better) and then afterward there was a great dinner including Jim's wonderful grilled pork ribs and great salad and other stuff. There were three cheesecakes for the cake, one of which was chocolate and therefore very yummy.
The backyard where the ceremony was held directly backed up on woods and there was a lot of wildlife at the event as a result. We saw a half-dozen deer wandering a hundred feet or so above the backyard at various times, looking enviously at the grassy area. Then when we were eating dinner a praying mantis suddenly appeared in one of our centerpieces. I finally had to move him to safety out in the flowers in the backyard when it began looking like he was going to leap upon my dad.
The surprise visitor at the party was (literally) rain on their wedding day. Well after dinner had descended into talking we began to see sheet lightning and hear thunder, and then rain began to patter down on the tents covering the eating area. It lightly rained for 5 or 10 minutes before it let off. A pretty wonderful end to the day after six months of dry (and three years of drought).
Now that we're back on the House on the Hill, the thunder and lightning is continuing with increased vigor. The lights even flickered out for a second with one of the strikes, but fortunately bounced back on. We did, however, lose our internet for a while. And some of the thunder rolls and rolls and rolls. We never get this sort of weather in the Bay Area, so I'm loving it.