Well, it really happened. Dad's sojourn into his second bachelorhood ended today. Video will follow.The video will come in two parts, due to size limitations. The first video, "The Ceremony" is about 10 minutes long. The second video, "The Reception" is less than half that length.
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My personal horde and cabal of the Albright Clan arrives at the chapel.
On time.
Siblings eye cousins ...
The two families mix ...
Grandfather [the groom] and granddaughter enjoy a moment ...
(I think) ...
And we all, frankly, have a lovely and lively time.
Sadly, I spent most of my time during the ceremony itself taking video [see below] so I have no stills of that event. I think Parney's got some. If he sends me some I'll post those [if they're any good, that is. The standards here are high, as you can see].
I have more stills from the reception. Less video. As one might expect.
The ceremony's over.
Next stop ... The Country Club ...
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We arrive at the Army Navy Country Club.
Eric can't believe that it was Kristin singing the Ave Maria. Lynne and Vaughn are aghast.
Parney's tribe arrives also ...
... schlepping the cake ...
Brothers.
Wives.
Uncles and nieces ...
Nieces and uncles ...
The whole mishpucheh.
Here's a look at our table.
That's Kristin to the lovely left, Parney taking another photo in the background, Billie's son Ray sitting next to Kristin [and looking slightly devilish I might add], Paul one of the sons-in-law next to him ... and, of course Jamie in the foreground ducking for my photo pleasure, and yours.
From 180 degrees around, we have [clockwise] Kristin's back, Ray's arm, Paul, Jamie, and Billie's daughter Pat.
Lest we forget ... there was a bride and a groom and a priest and a best-man.
And we did end up getting to that cake.
**** UPDATE ****Ray Jordan [see above] has put some photos up and is letting me add some of them to this site.
Here, for starts, is a nice photo of the chapel. I took some myself but for some reason they were blurry.
I think this is a nice photo of Kristin going over the music with the accompanist before the ceremony.
Here's a nice one of Dad with his best man, Col. Butz.
This was the "cool" table, I suppose. As usual, I didn't sit at it.
The young set.
