A Wedding and Busy Day

The big event yesterday was the wedding. The staff spent a lot of time helping to decorate the lodge banquet room which was to serve as both the chapel for the ceremony and the reception afterward. There was a rehearsal in the morning and the ceremony was to begin at 3 PM. Here is a picture of the banquet room as it is ready for the ceremony. There were balloons added after this picture but this one shows the arrangement better. The ceremony would take place in the front where the seats and alter are and the reception right behind at all the tables. You can see that it definitely was a low budget ceremony. The only flowers were the ones around the arch:

We had to start working at 7 AM yesterday so Bob worked the front desk and Josie worked the front desk for awhile then helped with the decorating. We took our normal break at about 1 PM, but Josie actually clocked out at that time since she had to go back at 3 PM to help with the wedding. Bob worked until his scheduled 3 PM and went home to watch the third round of the PGA championship while Josie went back to work. His day was more fun.

The ceremony started a little late because the people providing the music were delayed. Below is a picture of the young couple at the alter:

They are a very young couple. He is 19 and she is 18. He is going to go to basic training in the Army after the wedding- hence the camouflage. He then will be designated to probably Iraq or Afghanistan. They are both from very nice families and are nice young people. They are going to spend their wedding night in one of our cabin suites.

The ceremony was then followed by the reception and that's when the work began for Josie and the rest of the staff helping with the event. She didn't get home until almost 9 PM so it was a busy time for all. Josie took some other pictures of the crowd and families but the following was taken just before she came home and is of our Managers, Jayme and Chi Chi:

Jayme is the one that just returned from Montana to visit her first grandchild. I believe it was mentioned in an earlier post that they met as employees of United Airlines. He was a pilot and she was a flight attendant. Before that, Chi Chi was an F18 pilot in the Air Force and also was a flight instructor at Luke AFB in Arizona. They are fun to work with.

Today will be a much more calm day. We don't start until 12 noon and work until 6 PM. That will about do it for now...