Friday
7:00 am - Leave Malibu Club
2:00 pm - Meet Nick Graves in Bellingham to carpool down to Vancouver, WA for the Wedding
8:30 pm - Arrive in Vancouver, WA to hit the very end of the rehearsal dinner
1:30 am - Went to bed
Saturday
8:30 am - Meet my parents for breakfast
10:00 am - Begin set up for reception
2:00 pm - Dress down in Tuxes and take too many pictures
4:00 pm - Wedding (may have cried a little)
6:00 pm - Reception (gave a toast, teared up again, got my dance on)
9:30 pm - Depart Vancouver, WA
2:30 am - Arrive in Bellingham and sleep
Sunday
7:00 am - Wake up and get on the road
1:30 pm - Arrive in Egmont
3:30 pm - Boat back to Malibu
This has been a crazy weekend of travel but a weekend full of amazing memories. This wedding is very unique to me because of the relationship I have with both groom and bride. I consider them both very close friends and the groom one of my best friends. Andrew and I have lived together for 3.5 years and have shared out lives together the whole way through and yesterday was a time for me to see him start a new chapter in his life living with a new person.
Weddings seem to always bring me to get watered eyes. This one especially as I watched two people commit to this amazing covenant that God has established. I think I get so emotional because I think of what God has in store and the meaning of marriage. Allison and Andrew are going to represent an amazing picture of God's love and grace. Weddings are very spiritual moments for me and hopefully for everyone.
Well I gave a toast at a friends wedding... I had nothing prepared coming into the toast except that I wanted to mention the verse 1 Corinthians 13:7 which says: "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." I ended up talking about Andrew and Allison's failed first attempt at dating which stirred the crowd up a bit. But the reason why I brought that up was that through them being apart and working on their own individual relationships with Jesus they were able to learn how to be loved and to love others through their relationships with Christ. Once God had them ready then He lead them back together so that they could love each other the right way. The toast had some funny moments and some real Godly moments. When I was talking it just flowed out... The only reason behind it would be the Holy Spirit leading me. Thank God for that!
