The Wedding of Andrew Darbyshire & Stephanie Johnson

On November 21, 2010, we had the blessed privilege to join my sister Stephanie and a dear young man from our church as they covenanted together before God in marriage.  It has been such a delight to all of us as we have seen how greatly God has blessed both Andrew and Stephanie by bringing the two of them together, and everyone's joy was clearly palpable on that sweet day!!

Andrew and Stephanie decided to have a small family ceremony in the mountains of North Carolina, so we made a destination weekend out of it, arriving to the cabins on Saturday afternoon and staying until Monday morning. Saturday was spent in sweet fellowship together as we walked around the grounds of the beautiful house we were able to rent for the weekend, and Saturday night we sat around the bonfire together singing praise songs. Sunday morning dawned beautiful, and we lingered over breakfast together before beginning the wedding preparations. We gathered together outside to witness the joining of two who are so very dear to us all, and rejoiced together to witness Andrew and Stephanie's first kiss... (the term we've all coined for them throughout their courtship has been "natural", and it even transferred over into their first kiss - no awkwardness for them!) I can't even begin to tell you how many times we all just giggled and laughed at how cute the two of them were together!

Then the feasting began, and wedding pictures, followed by some good old-fashioned dancing (fun!!) Then it was time to see the happy couple off.... with a large fanfare of silly string. *wink*

I had a grand total of 1,306 pictures pulled off my camera from the weekend, and though I've narrowed them down to 113... I thought it best to just link to the Picasa web album, rather than trying to upload that many pictures straight to here. So, you can watch the slideshow below, or you can click on it to get straight to the web album!

Enjoy!