Page 2 of Part 4: My Life in Canada: January 2005 - December 2005!
July 2005
: On Monday not too much happened, Michael and I went to "Askews", the grocery store in Sicamous that would make all our deli trays and our wedding cake. We talked to the people over there about what kind of trays and the amount of trays that we wanted for our wedding and what kind of a cake we wanted and so on. We also has a longer chat with Deborah and Stu (Deborah's husband) with their little baby of 1 year, Evan. I had been in touch with Deborah via e-mail, but never met her in person. Deborah is Michael's cousin and she is a wonderful woman. I got along with her right away. She was so nice to help with some hair dues for our wedding. So Monday afternoon Deborah did a few different hairstyles to see which one would be the best. She did an awesome job! Tuesday was a calm day too, we started to look at some dried flowers that Auntie Fay brought from Saskatchewan. We would make some table pieces and my flower piece for the weddinf from the dried flowers. In the evening we sat around in the tent and we also sat around the fire pit where we had a bon fire and had some roasted marshmellows. Not my kind of thing, but Gert seemed to enjoy it. Michael and him were roasting marshmellows for everybody...that was great!
Wednesday was such a beautiful sunny and hot day. In the morning we went to Sicamous to buy the wine and other drinks for the wedding tomorrow. After we came back we rearranged the flower pieces for the table as well as my small wedding bouquet. There were many beautiful flowers and I put together a lovely bouquet for our wedding. Michael's mom, my mom, Fay and Dorothy were busy making small flower pieces for the tables and just to put anywhere. They all did a great job and all the pieces looked wonderful. In the afternoon everybody came over and we all went down to the beach to enjoy the sun and the water of Mara Lake. Michael, my brother and the kids went for a nice swim in the lake. Then they played some beach volleyball and just relaxed the whole afternoon. The rest of us just sat around and talked the afternoon away. It was so nice! It was so nice to see that my mom was having a good time and that Michael's family liked her so much and got along with her so well. They all liked my brother very much too and he got along well with all of them. That was great, we went to bed on time because tomorrow would be the BIG DAY for us!
On the beach at Mara Lake and the making of my wedding bouquet
Thursday July 14, 2005...the day of our wedding. Michael and I got up and enjoyed our morning together. We tried to relax a bit before we had to get ready for the ceremony. The ceremony would take place at Griffin Lake near Revelstoke which was about 40 minutes driving from Mara Lake. Sicamous is in between Mara Lake and Griffin Lake, we would pick up the trays and cake after the wedding ceremony on the way back to Mara Lake where we would set up some picnic tables outside to have our dinner. The ceremony would start at 2.00pm, that meant that we had to leave Mara Lake around 1.00 - 1.15pm. We agreed that everybody would be at Mara Lake around 12.45pm so we could all leave together to Griffin Lake. I got dressed in my wedding gown around 11.30 am as Deborah was going to come by at 12.00 so she could do my hair fancy for the wedding. The flower piece was ready to go and I just had to put on some make up after that. The whole family was waiting outside of the cabin to see Michael and I walking out to the car. My family had a big smile on their face and really seemed to like the way we looked. We took a few pictures outside of the cabin before we all took off to Griffin Lake for teh wedding ceremony.
Ok, now it was time to leave to Griffin Lake for the wedding ceremony. The wedding commissioner was waiting for us already when we got there at 1.30pm. The chairs were set up for the guests in the grass overlooking the lake and the mountains. We only had 14 guests in total including us. The ceremony started at 1.45pm and it was so wonderful. The weather was perfect, about +27C (86 F) and sunny. Michael and I felt so great that we finally could tie the not and promise each other to love one another until death to us part. That we will stand by each other in sickness and so on. This made us so happy that we are now husband and wife for the rest of our lives! It was so nice and such an intimate wedding...just the way we wanted it. The ceremony was finished at around 1.15pm. After that we went around the property to have some pictures taken while the hosts of Griffin Lake Lodge served some drinks to our guests. After all of that it was about 2.00pm and we headed back to Mara Lake.
Of course we stopped on the way at "Askews", the store where we ordered all our trays and cake. We stuck it all in the car and went back to Mara Lake where we set up all the food in the cabins. Everybody could go around the tables to get whatever they wanted to eat and then we would sit outside under the willow trees with everybody. Everything tasted so nice, the food was really good. Everybody enjoyed it. The cake was also wonderful and had a great taste. We were happy the way everything turned out...we wouldn't have wanted it any other way! We ended the day with a bon fire and a nice chat amongst each other. A perfect day came to an end and Michael & I were now husband and wife! That felt so fantastic and we look forward to grow old together.
What a beautiful day that was. We had such a good time and will never forget this day. I think we went to bed just after midnight...we were quite tired after the excitement of that day and had a good sleep. On Friday it was time to start packing our stuff as we would leave Mara Lake early on Saturday morning with my mom and brother + family to explore the Canadian Rockies for a few days. Michael's parents would head back to Vancouver on Saturday morning at the same time as we head for the Rockies. It was time for all the goodbyes again and enjoy a nice evening with everybody until the next year!
Some photos from the day of our beautiful wedding
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