Sounds like you all had a wonderful time, and I have a feeling that your granddaughter will treasure that "terrible" picture of you and Leone. I wish any of my grandparents had lived long enough to see me walk down he isle. You have a very lucky family... but I'm sure you already know that. :-)

I used a wedding dress to make gowns for the angels I make at Christmas time. I looked at it a long time before I could make myself cut it up ! But it is great for the angels !It was mostly a heavy satin with lots of beads sewn on.

Here are the flowergirl and ring bearer as we were exiting the church. You can see his baseball glove a little better. People are still talking about how cute it was to use the glove, and of course the flowergirl got her share of attention that day! The ring bearer is husband's 9 year old nephew. Penny

When I was young, our neighbour's son became engaged and when I told Dad that I'd heard it, his response was rather subdued. When I asked why he wasn't elated, enthused, etc., farmer Dad said that he felt that the young man was "driving his pigs to a poor market". I think that he attended, if he were invited, and offered good wishes for their marriage, but his opinion, call it "judgement", if you will, was that the marriage was very likely not a good fit and would be somewhat less than ideal, if it lasted. The couple stayed together for many years, don't know about children ... but I think that there were different ideas as to lifestyle, and that his choice resulted in something of a drag on him. I heard Chisue expressing regret that she felt that the people's choices were not a good fit, and there would likely be more heartache ahead ... and that most of us would not choose heartache for our friends, especially relatives ... but the choice is made by others, not by us: they hadn't asked our opinion (and if they had, it seems to me that it would behoove us to offer, along with our good wishes, some gently expressed reservations about the possible success of the enterprise). She had gone with some anticipation, with some reservations, but realized while there and after that her support of the situation was less in the event than she'd anticipated. I agree with the folks who were saying that they feel that in our society there's been an erosion in our levels of integrity and of commitment and working hard to follow through on our commitments in recent years. Get married ... and if it doesn't work ... leave and try again with someone else. "Serial polygamy," I've heard that called, on a bit of a lighter note. ole joyful.