The curmudgeonette and curmudgeon just returned from a wedding in Sioux Falls. The wedding was at First Lutheran but the reception was outdoors at the Westward Ho Country Club. South Dakota never looked so good. The reception began at 6pm with blues skies, a slight breeze and the temperature was 75 degrees. The setting sun cast a glow over the tent and the guests. It was as lovely as it gets!
For one reason or another I've been to several hundred weddings. Never have I seen such a relaxed bride, Kate. Her calm was more remarkable because both she and the groom live in Washington, DC. Besides that, it was an elaborate wedding with fine service at church and a lovely reception hours later at the country club.
Why such calm? Was it the whirlwind romance that stretched over seven years as they completed their graduate degrees? Perhaps that had something to do with it. But when we asked Kate about the stress she said "What stress? There were no ambassadors to deal with, no secret service people telling her that someone was threatening, no boss changing her mind several times in the last hour...planning a wedding? A piece of cake! (Parenthetically they served pie; apple, strawberry, strawberry rhubarb and blueberry in place of cake. Those hundreds of weddings I attended would have been improved by pie!)
You see, Kate is Nancy Pelosi's right hand assistant and event planner. With that experience planning her own wedding was a simple matter. However, Kate did send the wedding participants a seventeen page e-mail of instructions the week of the wedding! :)
Kate and Brad are an exceptionally fine couple and I wish them every blessing!
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