Mawidge

It's official. I have now married 3 people...Erika and Jorgen and Lee-Ann. For those of you who didn't hear the wedding was not without incident. On my way to the rehersal dinner Friday night I drove past the church only to see multiple fire trucks and ambulae. It turns out the roof caught on fire after the baffoons who were tarring it left a torch on and the tar lit up. Lee-Ann and some of her bridesmaids were in the sanctuary decorating when the pastor of the church came in to warn them of the fire. As they sat on the lawn dismaying a propane tank on the roof exploded, shooting 20 foot flames and shaking everything in sight. Sweeeeeet...in a bad way.

The fire-fighters got the fire out but the church was soaked and they we weren't sure if we could hold the rehersal there let alone the wedding the next day. Clean-up crews were called and the building was inspected and deemed safe for us to continue. All of this was on the news that night. Consequently, CFRN and Global came to the ceremony to do a follow-up story on the wedding that almost didn't happen. Yeah! My first wedding is going to be on TV...no wait...holy crap my first wedding is going to be on TV, aghhhhhh!!

Everything went swimmingly and I actually had fun doing the ceremony. I was especially glad that everyone recognized the opening remarks from The Princess Bride and much hilarity ensued. That really set the tone for the rest of the ceremony. We also played the newscast at the reception, which was pretty neat. When Jorgen and Lee-Ann look back on this after a while I'm sure they will laugh and appreciate the fact that their wedding was on TV...and they will always have some lovely footage of the back of my head!