Wedding Weekend Extravaganza!

This past weekend Collin and I headed up to a tiny town in The Poconos called Jim Thorpe, PA. My friend Rachael from college was getting married and she had asked me to sing with 5 other friends from college in the ceremony! So early Saturday morning Collin and I packed up the car and began our 5 hour journey north!

Comfy clothes for traveling


A road trip wouldn't be complete without a trip to Cracker Barrel!

For the first time ever I beat this dumb game! I've gotten down to 2 pegs before but this time I actually beat it!!
And then it started snowing. While the sun was out. And there was already some snow on the ground from a storm they'd had on Thursday.
This was the coolest thing! Icicles hanging from the rocks on the side of the road. Oh it was so neat to see all over the place!

The wedding took place on Sunday afternoon so Saturday evening was the rehearsal and dinner. Afterwards a bunch of us met up in my and Collin's hotel room for some rousing rounds of Pictionary Down the Lane which caused so much laughter we thought we would disturb the neighbors! We had a blast playing and it was great to spend time together with my college friends!

The wedding was above a museum in an auditorium type room and the ceremony was very nice! Our group sang "You Are the New Day" which is sung by The King's Singers. I think one of my favorite things about the day was that the recessional song was "Married Life" from the movie Up. It's the one that's played when it goes through their love story at the beginning. It was so special and they had the exact instrumentation for it live. =D Anyway, the reception was filled with lots of fun and dancing! And it was great to be seated with my awesome Messiah friends. We had a blast. I can't wait until the next wedding for when we all get to see each other again. ; ) Hopefully we'll get together before then though! I love those friends!

Jon with the fun shaped pineapple

That was a yummy cake!
The cake toppers were handmade treble and bass clefs!


Alicia, me, and Mary Lee

This about sums up Jon, David, and Andy. =)

A "normal" picture of the three guys.

Collin and Jackie, the two non-Messiah grads in our group
The sextet (singers) and Messiah friends!
The Messiah crew with the addition of Collin and Jackie (Andy's girlfriend)
All of the Messiah group in one picture!

The beautiful bride, Rachael!

The back of her dress was so pretty, too!
Jackie and me. I wish she lived closer because I think we would hang out all the time. I love her!

The girls I hung out with all weekend. Alicia, Mary Lee, Jackie, me

On the way home on Monday the icicles hanging off the rocks on the sides of the road had grown because it snowed a little more on Saturday night. And it was SO cold the whole time we were there. I don't think it got above 25 degrees while we were there. Much, much too cold for my liking! But we still had a great time!

I hope you had a great holiday weekend like we did! And I hope that whereever you were it was not nearly as cold for you as it was for us!

Cindy