Married: Cathy Nielsen

Mull of Kintyre, Oh mist rolling in from

The sea my desire, is always to be here

Oh mull of Kintyre

Those are the lyrics we would have heard if Hamish, the Scottish piper and Nadine's son-in-law, had been able to sing along with his music today as he pipped for Cathy Nielsen to walk down the isle.

The room was full of the groom's loved ones who had come from far east as Victoria. 

As well, Cathy has five children and 9 grandchildren and their accompanying friends and sets of in-laws and her own in-laws.


My favorite part of the ceremony was the processional that finished the wedding.  Not that the walk was long, but when I looked around, just about every hand held a camera and was taking pictures -- so much happiness there for the guests who are delighted to see the couple begin a new life together.


He introduced his side of the family.


She introduced her side of the family.


"Come on", he said, "you know we all forget important names when we are under stress and try to do introductions."  How charming was that.


As they were visiting with their guests, he was at one table and she, just behind him at another.  I watched him turn to her and say, "You are beautiful.  Want a date?"


"Meet you at the altar," she replied.

Charlene McLung had created a lovely atmosphere with her decorating talents.   "This is absolutely the last wedding I am doing", she said.  "From now on, only events -- no weddings." All of her children were nodding in agreement.  They are a smooth team -- when the last guest as left the room, they are like a machine, folding chair covers, taking left-over food back to the kitchen, folding chairs and tables to get them back to their storage units, taking down decorations and packaging them so they will survive the trip home.

No one (except her children) likes to hear that Charlene won't be doing this kind of work anymore.


When I get to heaven and God asks, "How did you develop your decorating talent," I am going to say back to him as most of her friends will, "Didn't need to.  We just hired Charlene".


A fuller description of the wedding was given to Miranda and Richard tonight as we finished quilting her baby quilt and updated them on their Johnson relatives who were a lot of fun today.  Wish you could have been there.


Arta