What a beautiful evening our son’s wedding was!
We are still floating with joy at the joining of these two wonderful souls. What a special and beautiful couple they make!
I was so touched by the presence of friends from different stages in our lives – Beitar, Seattle, Baltimore, Karmiel and Ramat Beit Shemesh. There were a couple of women who even knew me from high school, as well as a friend who I met at 16 and several others who came for the bride’s side but turns out also knew me from when I was in seminary (age 17/18). It was very special to have friends share this milestone event with us and I can’t describe how much it meant to me to have each person there.
I don’t have official wedding photos yet; what I have are some pictures taken by people on the sidelines when the photographer wasn’t looking (he didn’t allow pics taken at the same time he was shooting). Though they are the same poses by the photographer you’ll see that some of these are obviously in between moments and hopefully my family will forgive me posting these. (Edited to add – some of my children were NOT happy with the photos I shared and were therefore removed. Here is the link to the official photos.)
First, me and my husband.
I had some angst about my gown after it arrived. A blog-reader-turned-friend-turned-seamstress-for-the-wedding asked me what my concern was. I told her I was concerned the color was too much.
She responded, “This gown is to the ‘mother-of-the-groom black-gown’ phenomena what homeschooling is to the ‘keep your kid in an unhealthy schooling situation’ phenomena. It’s so in-line with Avivah Werner……”
So I wore it. 🙂
Next, a family picture. Baby Rafael wasn’t feeling well and unfortunately was screaming for the few minutes we took a family photo. 🙁 We put our desire for him to be in the pictures on the back burner since it was clear he needed calming, which is why he doesn’t appear in later photos.
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Below: siblings picture (minus Rafael). Back l- r: ds11, ds9, dd16, dd20, dd22; front l- r: ds18, ds23, ds4, ds15, ds8
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Below: my three lovely girls, l – r, dd16, dd20, dd22.
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(Edited -sorry, they requested I remove this.)Below: seven of our eight wonderful sons. Back l- r: ds9, ds18, ds23, ds15; front l- r: ds4, ds8, ds11.
Below: Rafael (six months) later in the evening with his Bubby, wearing his protective ear gear (sound protection for loud music).
The family pictures together with the bride were taken later in the evening and sadly only two pictures were taken even then. It’s very sad. In any case I don’t have any of those yet. I hate to leave the bride out of the wedding post but I only have one picture and it’s not a good one.
I also don’t have any wedding pictures of the bride and groom yet, so I’ll instead share a picture taken two nights later at the sheva brachos we hosted in our home.
When I used to think about marrying off a child, I imagined it would be a time with a lot of tension (since I’ve heard people talk about it in that way), but it wasn’t like that at all. It has been a wonderful experience all around and we are SO happy to have a new member of the family!
Avivah
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