Stephen and Ginger flew to Montana. Bad weather stuck us in Minneapolis overnight Christmas Eve. Fortunately, Nancy's college friends Steve and Vicki Taborek live nearby, and picked us up for the night. Ginger hadn't seen their two kids, Lucas and Dominika in about 10 years. See all the snow at their house!
We arrived in Billings on Christmas Day, and celebrated at Aunt Mary's house. (Grandma Pearl, Ginger, Stephen, Uncle Jim, Aunt Mary, Nick standing with Mandy on his back, Donna seated and Kelsey beside her.) Ron and Nancy drove to Billings Sunday afternoon after their church service in Cascade. They are showing off the finger-knit scarves Ginger made everyone for Christmas gifts.
Most of the week, Ginger worked on the wedding cake for Mandy and Nick (who sketched the design and drew the people on his computer). More cake photos. The cake weighed 40 pounds- enought for 1/4 pound each for 160 people! The interior was Funfetti cake, with some layers white chocolate ganache frosting and some dark chocolate. The cake topper was from Ginger & Stephen's wedding cake.
On Wednesday, Danyon threw Mandy a bachelorette party. Below, Mandy receives the requested "nothing sexy!" underwear from Breanne, and adorably decorated mini-presents from Shannon.
We had lunch and went ice-skating. Left photo: Katie, Iman, Breanne, Mandy, Danyon, Kelsey, Ginger, Kristian. Right photo- Donna joins the party.
The wedding ceremony was at First United Methodist Church in Billings. Mandy had three cousins come to visit from afar- Zach (best man) from Texas, Kelsey from Washington, and Leah from Arizona.
Nancy arranged all the wedding flowers with the help of Gramma Pearl, Kelsey, Mary, Bid and Bobbi. Bobbi also made little crosses for each of the bouquets.
The color theme for the wedding was rainbow. Below, colorful bridesmaids plus Anna and Kristian make the rainbow complete.
More Wedding Photos! (Red- Ginger, Orange- Anna, Yellow- Lindsey, Green- Katie, Light Blue- Breanne, Dark Blue- Danyon, Purple- Kristian.)
Ron and Nancy were married at the same church in 1982. See their
wedding photos.
Mandy and Nick, while listening to Zach's
best man speech.
Mandy and Nick went to Las Vegas for their honeymoon. The rest of us enjoyed post-wedding rest and sledding. (Rainbow sled picture for Mandy! Leah, Zach, Stephen, Kelsey) Ginger also copied a lot of favorite childhood photos from Mom's photo albums. See them
here.
