PIcaboo Wedding Book

A friend forwarded this great new site for creating your own photo books. Check out the link below for my attempt at our recent special occasion!
Picaboo Wedding Book

Favorite Wedding Photos

Four daughters... and a son.

--all photos by our dear friend and awesome photographer Rachael at RachaelHopePhotography

The idea for the hurricane jars and Laura's lovely side do came from a cup of jo--which quickly became a favorite place to look...

the wedding day

--lovely pictures by various friends and family

From this mom's perspective, it felt alot like her birth day...as exhausting for sure (the emotion alone! so similar)--filled with hope and love...so much hope and love. and grace. a sacred day...with sacred words:

"... for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health,

to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death.

This is my solemn vow."

"I give you this ring as a symbol of my vow, and with all that I am, and all that I have,

I honor you..."

Christmas in midst of wedding

We are just over one week away from the wedding! Wonderful family and friends gave Laura a beautiful kitchen shower a week before Christmas. And the house has been full with our daughters all home.

Despite the busyness with last minute wedding details, we managed to squeeze in a few Christmas traditions, including our annual visit to Old Colorado City for pics. with Santa and hot chocolate from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Then we subjected our almost official son-in-law to home movies, those years when our 4 daughters were toddlers and grade school.

And this mother of the bride was surprised by some special Christmas gifts by my amazing family... a favorite is the beautiful little Canon powershot. And one of the first pictures... our Christmas dinner! And I am savoring it all...mother of the bride is a bittersweet title.

Laura and Michael's Wedding Site

2 months and counting till our daughter's wedding...here's their wedding web site!

Laura and Michael

photo credit: RachaelHopePhotography

The first wedding in our family of four daughters is currently in the planning stages. Laura, our 2nd, is getting married in about 3 months to Michael, the boy she told me she thought she might marry when she first met him at 14. Here are a few of their engagement shots by a dear friend of our family (she took Lydia's senior recital pictures at Pepperdine) and gifted photographer, Rachael. You can see all her amazing work from engagements and weddings to families and portraits at RachaelHopePhotography.

and here's the mother of the bride, yours truly, at the boutique where Laura found the perfect dress!

photo credit: Lydia Supplee