Throwback Thursday: My first Low country Wedding, April 2013
Last month I shared about my cousin’s wedding at Pawley’s Island (HERE). His was not the first low country wedding in the family, his brother’s was back in April of 2013. I was busy, so I never got a chance to write about it, so here it is as a TBT today! It was April 2013 and a lot of fun. His wife is super sweet and it was a great weekend full of family and good food. The wedding was in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina at an old Presbyterian Church and the reception right along the Cooper River with Charleston shining across the water.
The rehearsal dinner was held at a restaurant on Shem Creek, where the bride and groom meet working one summer in college. As you can see it was a about to storm… tradition for a storm at a wedding weekend in our family!
Rehearsal dinners are not a small affair in my family.
My Dad, Aunt Wen and my Uncle Bri (he was the father of the groom)
Dinner… southern BBQ! With mac and cheese, succotash and rolls
Family lunch on Saturday along Shem Creek. It was April… but we were freezing our butts off! A cold front had come through after the storm the night before.
My Dad outside the church. He didn’t even plan to match the wedding party in grey!
Reception site near the Cooper River Bridge…. the outside patio was pretty, but it was so cold!
The food was mainly heavy appetizers, but they were good! The buckets of fresh shrimp for shrimp cocktail didn’t ever really end!
One of the buffet lines inside with heavy appetizers. It was a really pretty venue inside (if oddly shaped) and the display pieces were nice.
Wedding Cake
The Bride and Groom! My cousin Blake and his wife Sally!
My cousin Jenna, my Aunt Wen and me.
My Grandma Pat (center) and the grand kids. Sally, Blake, Matt, Me, Jenna and Dane. Love the bride’s dress!
The adults. My Uncle Bri, Vicki, Grandma Pat, Aunt Sue, Aunt Wen, Dad, Aunt Joy and Uncle John.
Me with Buddy and Cindy- my Grandma Pat’s brother and sister-in-law.
My cousins Jenna and Matt, with their parents my Aunt Wen and Uncle John
My Aunt Sue and her girlfriend Vicki
Me with my Grandma Pat. Doesn’t she look pretty? This was barely two months after she had a major surgery!
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