Tue 5 Jun 2007
After writing about agrarian weddings I really didn’t think this wedding would qualify (remember?) but after evaluating the whole thing I think I can hold up my head proudly among my agrarian readers and say what could be more agrarian than the backdrop of corn behind the groomsmen in the picture below? (In the last post)
We even had little Amish fellows running around. 
I am sure that most of the wedding guests were beginning to wonder if they were on their way to a still.
AND we had the Ridgewood Boys in all their glory at the rehearsal dinner !! I can’t begin to tell you how much their music enhanced the dinner. Truly that was a great blessing from the Lord.
But even without the corn, the bluegrass music, the little boys in white, the barn, the river, and most especially the wonderful homemade food, this wedding qualified as agrarian because of the vast members of our community of friends and family who helped put it together. Towards the end many Aarons and Miriams appeared from nowhere to hold up the weary. I was amazed watching that unfold.
Joe, Karen, Emma and Hannah put on a wedding where everyone was comfortable and relaxed and I think that qualifies as an agrarian ideal.
It was a wonderful day of fellowship with old friends and old, old friends and new friends and family coming together to celebrate.
It was meaningful to me to visit with famous (former?) bloggers and lovely all-grown-up homeschooled ladies.
I got to visit with my roommate from college and people I only knew through the Internet.
Valerie, in her kindness took millions of pictures for me. We were given lodging and meals by our friends the Larsons until it became an embarrassment of riches. My mom and my sister took charge and did a wonderful job at the rehearsal dinner, which was good because I was the last person to arrive there.
Y’all don’t have to keep commenting as I begin to put up pictures. I don’t want to wear you out 
I have quite a few pictures now and I am waiting on more. I will post the best here and maybe link to a photo album for the die hards.
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wonderful!
And I know just how you feel about ‘embarrassment of riches’.
It’s almost too much.
“I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I remembered that wonderful line of Blake’s-that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love-and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat:”Thank you.”"
~Anne Lamott
Comment by Miz Booshay (June 5, 2007 @ 10:01 am )
I understand what you are saying about the wedding being “agrarian” and it is very exciting to me!
I look forward to real “folk culture” weddings made up of the covenant community and families.
So, one of these days, we need to make a site that stockpiles all of the ideas for such a counter-(pop)culture event.
We live our lives thinking outside of the box, we homeschoolers (broad sweeping generalizations here) and then it seems that we drop the ball when we can use these life-events to show the world what we are talking about. Well, I’m determined not to, as far as is within my power (I’m praying for daughters-in-laws who agree in this!)
Comment by Margaret in VA (June 5, 2007 @ 11:25 am )
Amen and amen-the Ridgewood Boys were great! Thanks again Rick & Chris (thanks Debbie and rest of the family for sharing them with us).
Cindy was so cute at the ballgame last night. (showing wedding pictures on her ipod) She ran out of people she knew and started in on anyone passing by. When traffic slowed down she went out into the highways and byways…
Oh, and for the record, the picture don’t due her justice, she was absolutely stunning;)
Comment by Tim (June 5, 2007 @ 12:39 pm )
Yes, I enjoyed Rick and Chris being so nice to provide music for our pleasure at the rehearsal dinner,Thanks so much guys! Cindy’s Mom
P.S Love that picture of our youngest grandchild,Alex.
Comment by quaintoldgal (June 5, 2007 @ 12:56 pm )
Cindy, I don’t think you could possibly put up pictures fast enough for us all. Please keep them coming (more and faster).
Comment by Faith Proctor (June 5, 2007 @ 2:29 pm )
This die hard here loved the link to the rest of the photos! What a beautiful wedding.
Comment by Janet (June 5, 2007 @ 3:49 pm )
Janet,
I wasn’t sure if those links took you to the albums or not. I am not sure how to post them without showing the whole thing but I am glad you enjoyed them.
Comment by Cindy (June 5, 2007 @ 3:55 pm )
What a beautiful setting for a wedding! I’m so glad that you had such a wonderful time!
Comment by Birdie (June 5, 2007 @ 4:27 pm )
This doesn’t look like agrarian for me. This looks like another picture of a fantasy wedding held at the countryside by some rich couple who wanted to free themselves from the watchful eyes of people in the city. But still I look forward to having a real agrarian wedding if not for me then for my future kids. I’m quite fed up with too many grandiose weddings ending up in splitting and having broken families.
Comment by wedding portrait painting (June 6, 2007 @ 12:54 am )
Well, Portrait Painter, it was anything but what you described and as the pastor (my bil) said a strand of 3 is not easily broken.
Comment by Cindy (June 6, 2007 @ 9:03 am )
“If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”
Remember that one?
((Hug)) to Cindy.
Comment by Ruthanne (June 6, 2007 @ 1:57 pm )
Thanks for sharing the pictures, although I couldn’t find the link that Janet did, and I thought you had a picture of all your kids, but it disappeared. Everything looked so lovely. I loved the red color scheme.
Comment by Kim (June 6, 2007 @ 2:13 pm )
I was thinking of that, Ruthanne
Comment by Cindy (June 6, 2007 @ 4:50 pm )
Cindy, all your photos bring tears to my eyes. I know authenticity when I see it (I hope that doesn’t read as prideful). Your beautiful DIL is luminous and the joyous looks on everyone’s faces speaks of a love and a hope for the future that most of us pray for every day. Truly agrarian imho.
If some…er…commentors believe only they know what makes an agrarian wedding, I’d say their unwise words may come back to haunt them.
Sorry, I don’t want to be contentious on your blog. I just don’t want you to stop posting these beautiful pictures. They are exactly the kind of wedding I look forward to seeing for my own sons…soon!
Comment by Julia (June 6, 2007 @ 7:13 pm )
Cindy, I am wondering how everyone liked the Alabama BBQ? Did you make banana pudding?
Comment by Laura (June 6, 2007 @ 9:04 pm )
The rehearsal dinner far exceeded my expectations. I want to blog about it but I am waiting for a few pictures of it to come in.
We did have banana pudding made by Emily and her cousin and it was delicious. The bbq was a hit.
Comment by Cindy (June 6, 2007 @ 9:35 pm )
Hey! We are finally back, and I must say that wedding truly fits the description of an “agrarian” wedding. God could not have blessed the new couple (as well as the rest of us) with more beautiful weather. There was a lovely breeze blowing, lots of shade trees, and the view of the river in the distance. I personally never felt more at home and comfortable at a wedding in my life. It was so relaxed (well, maybe not for EVERYONE) and, well…comfortable. The food was fabulous and most of it was specially prepared by the bride, her mom, and helpers. And as to “wedding portrait painter’s” comments about grandiose weddings, you are sorely mistaken. The parents of both the bride and groom are not rich ~ financially, that is. They are rich in that they have godly, loving families. And the reception was held in the bride’s dad’s workshop ~ a barn!!! I am not making a derogatory comment, just a truthful one. And it was wonderful!!!! My family was blessed to be part of this.
Comment by Linda (June 6, 2007 @ 9:43 pm )