– i want to thank everyone for being so patient with me the last couple weeks that i’ve been office-less! we’re all moved in now, & our new house is wonderful! i’ll share photos soon.
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here is part two of deron & haley’s wedding! part one is here.
deron & haley’s wedding was just so lovely– & the best part was their beautiful appreciation for their amazing family & friends. i love how important family connections are to them, & how visible the love between everyone is. here is a bit that haley wrote about their wedding:
“Like Deron mentioned in his toast, we wanted the whole day to be about family and the union we were making. Deron and I are fortunate enough to come from families with a long history of strong and lasting marriages. We wanted to be reminded of those people who had been such an example of the commitment and unending love it takes to make a good marriage. We were looking forward to having all our favorite people in one place, at the same time, however, there were several important people who wouldn’t be with us that day and we wanted to honor their memory. When we first met, I became close to both of Deron’s grandmothers, but they passed away before we got engaged.
The reception being held in the Kansas Museum of History, we felt it was fitting to also have an “exhibit” of our family history. We tried to get wedding photos of our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents (and even great-great-grandparents). The Lees still had a newspaper clipping from the 1930s from Deron’s grandma’s wedding. They also had a marriage license from Missouri dating to the 1870s.
One of my personal favorite parts of the reception was the cake topper. It was the same one my mother’s parents used on their wedding day in the late 40s.
In place of a guest book, we used a “wishing tree.” Guests could write a personalized note for us and hang it on the tree. Deron and I enjoyed reading the messages as we returned from our honeymoon. We got drawings, advice, blessings and more. We plan to scrapbook the notes for safe-keeping.
The wedding took place in my childhood church, the First Baptist Church of Topeka. My parents were married there in 1982. We had two ministers…one was Dr. Cheryl Henson, the current pastor of the church. The other was Dr. Joe Kutter, who was pastor of the church when I was a teen. Deron’s father, Dr. Lonnie H. Lee is a Presbyterian minister but we wanted to relieve him of the stress of conducting a ceremony. We wanted him to be able to be “dad” and not “Reverend” that day.”
these two are brilliant, funny, incredibly intelligent, & in love– a perfect match for each other!
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