Family Time/ Wedding Weekend

The Wedding

The actual wedding was absolutely fantastic... wonderful harmony, a packed house, and lots and lots of smiles.  This post is just to show some photos of the actual ceremony. 

The crowns that had to be held over Tosha and Peter's heads during the ceremony.  Only to touch when they were actually united.  Poor Megan and Sean!

Our girls little part in it.  Bella was a flower girl, and Eilidh handed out bubbles.  Both got to wear some amazing seal-skin beaded headbands which were absolutely stunning....

Getting Ready fo rthe Old Harbor Wedding...

Weddings are such a great excuse for all sorts of things.  A weekend to fully relax with family.  A few chapters in a book!  A walk on the beach (but not too far because of the bears).  Eating Aunty Nana's chocolate amazingness.  Laughing with grandma.  Dancing in a tent.  All is well.

Tosha Price and Peter Dunlap tied the knot on September 16th, 2012.  In a virtual hurricane.  50 knot winds and sideways rain.  But not a thing was dampened (but hair was certainly wind-swept).  Father Paisius from Saint Innocent's Academy traveled to Old Harbor with an entourage of amazing singers to run the service (and thank goodness- as all other Orthodox priests in Alaska were busy in Anchorage voting in a new Bishop!).  Peter's family traveled from California and fit right in, with their amazing attitude and appetite for adventure...  And also traveling down with us were Thorsten & Jamie, two documentary film-makers working on a PBS series about Refuge Rock, the place where the Russians essentially conquered the Alutiiq people in an epic and heartbreaking slaughter.  Their journey was to chronicle not so much the destruction, but the resilience and the journey...

Filming the coming-together of the cake, which Phyllis so lovingly put together.

Before the wedding, all the ladies' shoes...

I think this is one of my favorite photos from the entire weekend.  Not sure why, but Uncle Harold makes us happy... (Bella's original 'other daddy' as she said when she saw him one time when she was little... I have two daddies!"