If you came - and If you have pictures - I would LOVE to see them or have copies - esp if they are digital. If you put them up on an online share site - like snapfish.com, winkflash.com, or burn them and send them to me - It would be GREAT!.
Anyway - Pics and commentary below.
Wedding Prep took place at My Aunt Helen's - just one block away form the church - so my girls and I hiked up our skirts and walked to the church - afterall - feet are the most reliable way to get somewhere on time :-)
Pastor William Wilton from Sunrise church in McMinnville, came up 
to do our wedding (THANKS!) We enjoyed the serice and think we even remeber what was said :)
Other people also came from far away - Alister's Parents from Northern Ireland, Pete two plane tickets and many a misadventure later from Montenegro, Yukina via Serbia, and Kanako, Christy, and Rich via New York, the Karls from Colorado, and lots of Oregonians and Washingtonians! Thanks for coming! 
After the wedding - We all did pictures and scurried over to the Reception, there was food, cake, speeches, the boquet toss, and the garter toss (to the mortification of the singles - I always thought it was fun???!) 
(Showing some leg with old roomies - Jen and Laura, Alister's Dad - Ron - giving a speech, Signing the marriage certificate, the cake (marble -with cherry filling - no the flowers aren't fake - rather they are lisianthus and delphinium, Me with my new niece , Evelyn, and her father, Jeremy. a whole Possy of Family~!~)
So those are all the wedding highlights, you all know the end . . . Happily ever after and all that jazz :)
HONEYMOON
We spent our honeymoon up at Mt Rainier National Park and went backpacking for part of it - It was absolutely gorgeous. http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np.mount-rainier.html Our campsite looked out onto scenes just as amazing as the ones here - and our pictures turned out just as amazing - but why slow down your download speed unless you want to see the pics?
Afterwards we toured the rest of Washington - some highlights were a stop in the backwoods town of Roslyn, WA. This is the place where they filmed Northern Exposure - the irony of it is (Alister and I are now watching the 1st season of Northern Exposure) that in the Northern Exposure town of Cicely, Alaska - There is this Character maurice who want to put in this Super elite resort with a golf course and swimming pool and all sort of fancy stuff. Well, this resort actually has COME to Rosyln! http://www.suncadia.com/ Unfortunately (in my mind) the resort may not be all its cracked up to be - elite and luxurious sure - but the impact on the town is huge - driving up property prices and pushing out locals who have been there for years (according to a nice Croatian Man who owns the Cicely, Alaska Tourism shop in the town). The town has been declared a heritage site and has been preserved in all of its clapboard splendor of the mining years of the 1840's. Still, now you can find, beside the all purpose pharmacy, grocery, and gift shop, an elite coffee house that looks like it might have been imported straight from 5th Ave New York. - Unfortunately - we don't have pictures of this phenonemon as our camera disapeared shortly after our arrival in Philadelphia and before we had downloaded the newest photos.
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