Now that this wedding reaffirmation project is over I need to move on to another subject.
I haven't figured out what yet, but as soon as I do I hope you will all visit, read and comment.

Along with planning the food we would serve we had to decide what type of beverages to serve. We don't drink and none of our family or friends do either. So we taste tested every non-alcoholic beverage we could find. My sister introduced us to a muscadine drink from the Post Family Wine Co. that was fantastic. After testing the non-a champagnes and wines we decided on the musadine. It worked out well. We had the white with the cake and the red with the cheese cake which was the grooms cake. We gave everyone a glass and had our toasts.

After posing for the tradition "wedding" pictures we had a short dance. It was lots of fun. Even my mother who is 80 kicked up her heels.

We wanted to share this experience with you in hopes that when the time comes you would consider this memorable event in you lives. If you have any questions or would like more information just ask.

Email me at: mamajudie49@yahoo.com any time.

While I'm on the subject of the wedding party, I'd like to tell you more about what they are wearing and how I came up with the decision to do it this way.

I already told you about Rick's father passing away, who lived in Alabama. So we decided to have the best man and grooms men wear bibbed over hauls to depict this side of the family. The brides maids wore western clothes of their choosing. I'm from Arizona and thought this would depict my side of the family. This also tied into the theme of a "Moc Wedding". To go along with that, we didn't use a real preacher of any kind. We chose one of our good female friends to wear a black robe and perform the ceremony. The ushers were my twin nieces dressed alike in western wear. I even chose a lady friend who was known for talking loud to be the moc mother of the bride. She was to boohoo and wail off and on during the ceremony. Unfortunately she had to back out due to a sick family member.

The ceremony script was written entirely by myself and incorporated traditional vows as well as "Moc" vows made up from things in our lives, either past or present.

This kept the guest in an "oooh and aaah" state all the way through. We also included music during the seating of guests that had very special meaning to us as a couple dating, married, present and future. Again, since this was not your typical ceremony we had unexpected guest participation that kept everyone laughing as well. I can't wait to see the video of all this.

Up to this point I had not thought very much about the reception except for who to ask to be servers, etc. Time was closing in on me so we got together and started planning the reception. My husband initially thought we should have a "meal". I've seen this done, but didn't want to go that way. I've also seen where there was only cake, punch and coffee. I didn't what it to be that way either. So I decided somewhere in the middle. We picked out simple fruit bowls, fruit dips, finger foods, veggy platter with dips and the traditional punch, cake, coffee. Not too fancy and not too plane. It worked out perfect.