Wedding 2 of 4 Adele and Cristian

This wedding was quite a treat. It was located in a small town in Maine further north than I have ever been. The reception was at a beautiful mansion which I assumed was a reception place. As the recption went on I realized that the house belonged to her family! It was absolutely elegant and beautiful.

There was a rumor going around that two presidents have stayed at the house but we weren't able to confirm that, but it was confirmed that Nathaniel Hawthorne stayed there. Adele, if you're reading maybe you can clear some of this up??

The wedding started at 5:00. At 4:45 it was pouring! It stopped as the sun came out at 4:55

This is the front of the house before I headed over to the church

The newlyweds

You can see the sky was still stormy

Adele's sister Laura is expecting her first baby in October

Back at the reception

Adele's neice

In front of the house

The tree swings were hanging from these massive oak trees which is where the place got its name. I couldn't wait to try out the swing for myself!

My father's friend Fred (the reason Adele and I know each other). He couldn't resist the swing either. His wife tried it out too.

Adele didn't stay in her dress for too long. It was REALLY hot out.

I drove up to the wedding on my own. Chris and the kids stayed home even though we were all invited. It was a 3 hour drive made possible by my friend Melanie who let me borrow her car. I had to leave my car with the car seats for Chris and the wrangler gets horrible gas mileage so she was nice enough to trade cars with me for the day. After the wedding I had to drive about an hour south to stay over at our friends' beach house. I've been going there since I was in high school and it feels like home so it was so nice to spend the night there hearing the crashing waves of the ocean. I got up and had breakfast and coffee with my friends then drove the rest of the way home.