Wedding Weekend

This past weekend was the wedding of my son's best friend.  

My son was in the wedding.  

The ceremony and reception was at a Thoroughbred stable.  

Red Riding Hood Stables.  

Isn't that a cute name?  

They breed horses there too. 

I thought I would share some photos of the day with you all.  

It was so nice to see the bride and groom so happy.  

We have known him and his family since he was 9.  

His mom is one of my good friends too.

I'll start with that.  This is Terry(the mother of the groom) and me. 

I made them take a few photos of my with my hubby too.  We never seem to have dressed up pics!

This would have been a great pic but my hubby closed his eyes!  That is our son between us.

This group of young men are some of my favorites.  

My son is on the far right and the 2 to the left of him are kids he played football and lacrosse with. 

 It was so great to see all these guys again since those 2 live outside of Michigan now.

He looked so handsome walking his bridesmaid up the aisle.

What a great looking crew of groomsmen!

It was a dreary overcast day. 

 Here the bride and groom are digging up a bottle of bourbon they buried a month ago.  

Irish tradition says if you bury a bottle of bourbon a month before the wedding and dig it up on your wedding day you will not have rain for your wedding.  

It was pretty sweet that as they pulled the bottle out of the ground the sun broke through the clouds and gave us all a very sunny view of what was happening!  

They each took a swig and then were pronounced husband and wife.

And well you know, "you may kiss the bride".  

Congratulations Chris and Monica.  May you live happily ever after!

~XOP~