Vanessa and Joey's Wedding

Now the chronology of our blog gets all messy. This was on the 5th of July, two weeks before our wedding (the last post). The next few post will also be taking place before the wedding.

First of all I have to say that the day before Vanessa and Joey's wedding was a big day for me because Julia was arriving from Germany. Hooray! The poor girl had been working non-stop at work and at several sewing machines for the two months (and more) prior to this. Then, we were on the cross-Canada wedding circuit for the next month. So after she got of the plane we went to Chris and Karen's (and Owen's) for a nice supper on the patio and a night of jet-lag sleep.

The next morning after quickly sewing horse hair braid onto the hem of her dress we were off to Venessa and Joey's wedding in Kitchener-Waterloo.

A quick note on Julia's dress: this was the practice dress she made before attempting all the wedding garb. It's made from the same patern as her wedding dress but with a shorter skirt and no train.

Between the wedding and the reception, we checked in to our hotel room and had a few beers. Above is Owen repetedly requesting "Row, row, row your boat" by screaming "Row, row, row" and rowing Joy's hands like oars.

The wedding was beautiful and the reception was held at the Polish Legion which meant Polish beer which is like Czech beer, delicious. The Hall was decorated in white and blue, the colours of the wedding. This matched the baseball theme of the wedding since they are Blue Jays fans and they first met at a ball game.

We had lots of kidly entertainment during the supper as we were seated with Owen, Midori and Toby and of course their parents Chris, Karen, Shane and Dayna who are also lots of fun.

Here's the top of Toby's head climbing into his seat.
Owen and Julia's uncle Beer.

Dayna and Midori playing with a doll.

The supper was all traditional Polish dishes. I would enumarate them but I have no idea what they were called. All I know is that there was lots of courses and it was all delicious. There was also an impresive spread of midnight snacks later on.

Here are lots of people cutting a rug after the speeches and bad jokes.

Here are Julia and Baba and her uncle Ray (he of the bad jokes) in some kind of line dancing thing that was going on.

We partied until about 1:00 and then went to bed so we could get up for the brunch the next day and drive to Bellville (the next post).