dancing the night away

lester and mel's first dance was so sweet...she was mouthing the words to him the whole time. they danced to the chris rice song "when did you fall in love with me". ok, actually, i don't know if that's what it's called, but that's what it says.

danny and glenda busting a move, and calvin and jamie in the background
i made calvin dance with me, haha.
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danny and i are pretending to fall in love gazing into each other's eyes while dancing together
i like this shot of calvin and jamie

roz and danny near the end of the night

our feet at the end of the night were so black and so sore...but we closed the place down. it was only the 7 of us for at least the last half hour, probably closer to the last hour. good times...

the reception

danny and mel
me, danny, roz
my hair
roz and i smelling our flowers
danny wearing a bib

roz and nikki

l-r: leighton, thomas, calvin, craig, nikki

lester and mel cutting the beautiful cake

me, mel, roz

the wedding

thanks to jamie for taking most of these pictures...she's calvin's girlfriend, so i gave her my camera to capture some moments from the big day

the day before the wedding we decorated the reception hall. mel thought of everything --she even had a kids table with games and toys and stuff. we decided that we had to try on the funky faceware from the kids table for an extremely formal picture of the bridal party with the bride. from left to right it's nikki, mel, me, and roz
l-r: calvin, lester, mel, glenda, bill (mel's family)
l-r: mel, lester (horizontal), dale, leighton, nikki, janet (lester's family)
the girls rocking the shades. and yes, i'm aware that mine make me look like a bug.

mel and calvin

the whole wedding party

mel and lester

roz looking sassy

self portrait: roz and me

the bridesmaids chilling

regina

we stopped at the border between alberta and saskatchewan to document my first entrance into the province
mel is testing her long-lasting lipstick on roz
while mel was at the spa roz and i ran around buying their wedding present and getting decorations and groceries for the bachelorette party

just after this picture was taken an older man tried to jump in it with his arm around me. awkward.

then in the safeway an old lady told me she loved me. awkward again.

also, that silver wrapping paper you see me holding...yeah, we bought it to wrap our present for them. unfortunately it's not actually silver. no, no. it's clear cellophane. good times trying to wrap that gift seen below...

those aren't christmas trees...they're upsidedown wedding cakes. don't worry, on the other side they're upright. our wrapping job was so pathetic...we used a whole roll, and you could still see some of the cardboard box on the sides. hahaha.

we kidnapped mel and blindfolded her and put a tiara on her head. we took her all around town like this, even in public places. it was good times driving since roz and i had never been to regina before and we had to get places without saying street names so mel wouldn't figure out where we were, plus we had to zig zag a bit to confuse her. we did a really good job at getting around though, i must say.

we went to moxie's for drinks and appetizers and rebekah was able to join us also. i really didn't drink all the drinks, they just put their glasses by me so i'd look like i was an alcoholic or something in the picture.

then we went back to lester's place which roz and i had hurriedly decorated before picking mel up from the spa. we did our nails and watched a movie and ate tons of food and all that good stuff