Julie's Wedding

I was so happy and privileged to be a part of Julie and Tim's wedding last month.  It was only about 4 weeks ago, but it already feels like it was 6 months ago!  Weird how time works.
I could not be happier that Julie ended up with this love her life, Tim.  The story goes...Julie met Tim right around the time Isaac was born, about 4.5 years ago.  Tim's mom and my mom were close friends in high school (and still are,) and after years, maybe a couple decades even, my mom, Tim's mom Terri, and I decided we would try to set Julie and Tim up on a blind date.  I didn't know much about Tim, just that I had watched how very sweet he was with the Congolese refugee kids that had just moved to the USA and were being helped by our mothers.  Julie and Tim actually did not realize we manipulated them into a blind date.  HAHA!  My mom had a birthday so we decided to play games and the guests were Dave and I, Julie, my dad, Terri, Grant (her husband) and Tim.  haha!  We all had fun but it took a couple months before enough hints were dropped that maybe they should go hiking or something.  They finally did, and the rest is history!  They quickly became inseparable, a couple years later bought a house together, a year later got engaged, then here we are, post wedding. 
They are a great compliment to each other.  Dave has a much better way with words, which is why he gave the speech at their wedding and not me.  He presented them with a pearl we got in Hawaii and compared the pearl to all the layers of their lives, that have come together to form a perfect pearl.  Obviously he said it much more eloquently.
The wedding was on an amazing, small beach called The Cove near Makena Beach in Maui.  A man named Laki officiated the wedding and brought a perfect mix of humor, seriousness, music, and culture.  It was a very intimate wedding with just the bride and groom, plus Julie's sis and bro-in-law, and Dave and I.  I loved it.  Perfect wedding for Julie and Tim - it was SO them.  Julie made her own GORGEOUS, yet simple dress, along with an awesome travel bag for both me and her.  They had a lei ceremony and her sister Leanne (with seriously a tiny bit of help from me) arranged flowers for us all.  That pretty much took care of the wedding!  Easy but wonderful.
 One of the best parts is, Maui is even more of a special place to us now than it already was!  Dave and I went on our honeymoon there, there have been multiple special trips there, and now Julie and Tim sealed the deal there.  That definitely means we will be back again and again.
Julie brought by a USB with all the Hawaii photos a week ago and I am now finally getting to post some.  Hooray!  There were a lot of great photos taken by her sister Leanne and Bro in law Neil, and these are some of my faves.  I will have to post other photos from the rest of the trip later, because there are some fun ones, but for now...HAPPY WEDDING Julie and Tim!  MUAH!

There was a lot of this (not this face, but the kissing, of course!)

I love this picture of the 4 of us.  I have a lame story about my dress, though.  I had to find this the day before the wedding because I FORGOT TO PACK the dress I got just for this wedding!  DUH!!!!

A random beach-goer that happened upon this beach took this for us :)

Julie made a very beautiful bride!

I love this picture....sneaky peek before walking down the "aisle."

Love this man...so happy I got to spend this occasion with him.

Dave giving his speech. 

Flowers!