Amelia finishes sewing The Dress

Emily's hair

Francesca at the Salon

Francesca, Kristen, Becca Leathe, Bridezilla (jk)

Ian and Christine were awesome helpers

Groom's cake, made by Gloria O.

ring photo 1 (this and following by Cookie)

ring photo 2 (amelia made the flower)

It's been a whole week since I posted! Obviously, I've been really busy with Molli's wedding. And most of the people who might read this blog were here, in Athens, so I didn't have anything more to say.

Molli is married! My daughter is a bride. Wow! It was amazing--the service and reception were the best ever! Yes, it was all worth it. There are things I might do differently, but it is worth pulling out all the stops and having lots of people. On the scale of weddings, this one was relatively inexpensive, but we did totally splurge on many things.

the Kiss

All Middlebury grads

Maybe the best was a five-piece jazz band that played for 3 or 4 hours with one break. They said they had a great time too. Gloria made an awesome chocolate groom's cake in the shape of a book, with a quote from Nietzche on it. We bought three cakes from Cecilia's--one 14" coconut cake, one 10" tres leches cake (my favorite), one 10" lemon cake. There is a lot left. They looked great. I had no idea how to cut and serve them, but Gloria did. We had plenty of champagne and marvelous toasts by the best man, the maid of honor, the father of the bride... We had plenty of delicious and interesting food...although I'm not sure Molli had time to eat much of it. I was too tired and too excited to really enjoy it, but people raved about it. Not sure what is left, but hopefully we will eat some more today.

Many very happy people dancing when I went to bed, and slept well for 8 hours.