B-ham Wedding

We made it up to Bellingham on Friday with no problems. After driving around a little bit (and pointing out every street that I lived on when I went to school at Western), I found La Fiamma via a circuitous route. It was just as cute as I remembered and we all had pizza and salad. It made me wish for a moment that I still lived up there, but then I saw that the 3B had been turned into some kind of restaurant (cajun maybe?) and Aaron said you can never go home. It's true.

After lunch, we relaxed for a bit and then got ready to go to the wedding. (My other aunt let us use her hotel room so that we could get ready, which was quite generous.)

The wedding itself was classy and the ceremony was relatively short. The weather even cooperated, but it was looking dodgy there for a while. The area where the ceremony was held over looked the bay.

If you look toward the left hill, you can see a brick building (Mathes Hall) that is obscuring my former dorm, Higginson Hall.

My cousin chose red and orange for her wedding colors and the flowers reflected the theme.

I liked the attention to detail and thought the flowers in the fountain were a nice touch.

Here's a close up of the floating flowers.

So pretty!

The tables were all covered in orange tablecloths, with votive candles and a large centerpiece.

Each centerpiece consisted of a massive glass vase that housed two goldfish. A bouquet of red roses topped each vase, which may have bummed out the goldfish, because they weren't looking too lively.

The dinner was excellent and offered lots of variety, but no vegetarian option. Thankfully, Aaron was able to work around that by having Caesar salad, pasta salad, potatoes, broccoli and a roll. I had all the same, minus the broccoli with the addition of breaded chicken, which was delish. They also had an open bar with beer and wine. Mmmm, Mac and Jack's. For dessert, there was red velvet wedding cake or M&M's with the bride and groom's names on one side. (I had both - it was a special occasion, after all.)

It was a beautiful wedding, great to get back to Bellingham to have a look around, and also great not to have to do any wedding related work. Being a guest is the best way to go!