Kathy I am so sorry your pictures are in limbo somewhere I do hope they show up. But I like the idea of dressing up again and have your picture taken. Our niece had a huge wedding fancy fancy the photographer she hired messed up all the pictures so she has no photos either. When my daughter got married the photographer was late, but I had bought those throw away cameras at each table with a note asking the guests to take pictures of their table and of bride and groom when they came to their table. The good news is that the photographer got there! Hurray and to make up for being late he stayed through the entire wedding so we have lots of memories. But let me tell you I was really stressed out!

Nice pics of a lovely day. You look so thrilled! One suggestion: should you post others to the forum, please consider compressing them first. Each of the ones you posted came in at 4 megabytes of space. Some poor viewers with a dialup-connection will find it takes forever to load such images; even on my DSL setup the page took a while to load. The forum instructions suggest an uploaded image should not exceed about 60 kilobytes. Almost any photo editing application, including freeware ones, will allow you to compress photos, and common compression algorithims such as .jpeg allow you to post photos that don't appear to have suffered from compression when viewed on a monitor. Of course, compress a copy, not your original. You'll want your uncompressed photos for printing at high resolution.

DH and I must be more trusting than most. I understand it can be a lot of work and a big headache, but neither of us are particularly concerned about the people. It's not like we've never met them and someone just walked in off the street....and I know that all families have their share of "problem children", but that's not a major concern for us. Maybe it should be, but it isn't. I'm thinking the larger issue is if this will provide the bride with the best wedding option for her, and I don't think it will. Our patio is nice, but our outside is really set up as "pods" of individual space....the deck above, the patio below, one field on one side of the house, the other field on the other side of the house and the wetlands and pond down below. It's not set up with a lot of continuity or flow between space to make for easy entertaining. This is especially troublesome if it rains where we won't be able to get people to and from the house and/or tent to the pots or the food or anything else easily. And it's an issue if anyone like gram or gramps has any mobility issues. I think I will talk to FOB again tonight ....

Congrats to all!! Very beautiful wedding, and such a great looking couple!...oh, the bride & groom were great looking too! ;) My best wishes to Aaron...I too met him, and I was so impressed with what a wonderful person he is/was. Wishing them a wonderful and long, long life together.