It happened...Evelyn and Nathan got married!! We flew out bright and early Friday morning for the big weekend and met up with some friends in Atlanta who picked us up so we could join them to Lake Martin in Alabama where the wedding would be. Evelyn amazingly found us an awesome rental house on the lake that we filled with 11 of us. There were also several other houses being rented on the lake for other wedding guests and the house the wedding was at was also on the lake. Since everything we'd be doing all weekend would be located on the lake, we decided to rent a pontoon boat that all 11 of us could fit on and transport ourselves between venues. After picking up the boat we got everyone from the house and hopped over to the first event of the weekend, the welcome party!
Driving the boat home in the dark was a bit of a challenge, but we made it and it was so much fun! Saturday started out with a brunch at another house on the lake, so we boated on over there!
Saturday night was wedding night, so as the wedding party was getting all primped up and taking pictures, the rest of us took the extra hours to get in some lake time and took the boat out. We docked at a little island and a few of the guys did some cliff jumping while we all floated around in the sun.
When it was wedding time, we all boated on over for that too! It's definitely the first time I've ever shown up to a wedding in a boat. That was pretty awesome. We got there a little early so Liz and I could help out by taking polaroids of all the guests as they arrived. That's what they were doing instead of a guestbook, then each guest could write a little note with their photo, it was so cute!
Then came the wedding. Of course it was amazing, and I'm so excited for Evelyn and Nathan for tying the knot, they are so amazing together! And then came the partying! I must admit, I slacked a little on the picture taking, so I'll be excited to see the pics the professional photographers took. I definitely had a blast cutting a rug on the dance floor though! The bride and groom left the ceremony on their boat...so cute, then we met up with them again at the 'party house' where we continued the partying late into the night.
Sunday we got moving in time to clean up the house, pack up, and hit the road/lake. Ryan and I took the boat back to the marina and Liz and Andrew met us there to take us back to Atlanta. Our flight was a little later, but we wanted to get back to Atlanta with a couple extra hours to meet up with Ryan's parents for a little bit. We did lunch and wandered around a nearby cemetery which had a ton of history in it, including a huge section dedicated to soldiers of the confederacy. It was really a pretty place, and it was nice that we got to spend a few hours with them before our flight.
Such a great weekend, and only two more days till our next bit of fun when Kimberly comes up to visit!!
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