Portland: Gabe & Essie's Wedding
8/20/05 -
Despite my complaining about an earlier than planned trip to Oly, the whole weekend of the wedding was quite fun. The bachelor "party" involved a low key trip to Frankie's (the disturbingly big sportsbar out in Lacey that I don't like to admit I used to go to). The wedding itself went off well, we got there early and were roped into helping set up (I think I got carpal tunnel from opening so many cans of baked beans). It was a nice change from the usual traditional wedding, very low key and tasteful. The actual ceremony took about 5 minutes and the whole affair just felt like people and family hanging out. With massive amounts of food of course.
What passes for a bachelor party
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Normal Gabe
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Crazy Gabe
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In the car while Jason is doing horrible things with the car on the dirt road
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Eddie the next morning after injuring himself running from the car
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Wedding setup
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Preparations
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Ice
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The groom is ready
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Signing the guestbook
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Family
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The Cake
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Kids in motion
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Kids in motion
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Family
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Gabe's nephew
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Standing around
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The well landscaped altar
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The groom awaits
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Kathy restrains Chiara
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Best Man and Maid of Honor
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Ready? Ready.
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Sons of the Bride & Groom
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Flower girls
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The Bride and her father
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And....it's a wedding
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Vows
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Essie gives vows and a pendant to Logan
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Gabe puts a pendant on Lucas
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Mr. and Mrs. Hicks
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Eddie, Gabe, Jason
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The blushing bride
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Groom, Groomsmen, and sons
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Best man gives his speech
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Cutting the cake
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Feeding the groom
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Catching the bouqet
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Retrieving the Garter
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Expecting the garter
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Best Man catches the garter and the Maid of honor the Bouquet? Suspicious.
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Batman carries wonder woman over the threshold
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Me playing with eddie's daughter
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