About 4 months ago, I blogged about Burritt on the Mountain here and posted pictures of the beautiful wedding of our friends’ daughter. Well, I don’t want to invade any privacy or anything, but I have just returned from the wedding of yet ANOTHER daughter of these same friends — this time at a different Huntsville wedding venue, Hampton Cove Wedding Plantation. The names of the bride and groom are Mary Kathryn and James, and I do have a picture here of the two of them, but I’ll leave the actual wedding gown/tuxedo pictures for the professionals.
The bride and groom and all who attended this afternoon were blessed to enjoy a gorgeous day, brilliant blue skies and a slight, cool breeze — perfect for making the hundreds of origami paper cranes sway (folded by the groom as a symbolic gesture of love for his bride). The Hampton Cove venue offers a very nice covered area for the ceremony in case of rain, but thankfully, it wasn’t necessary today. There is plenty of parking, and a courteous man in a golf cart even provided personal rides from your car to the main building to those who wanted to take advantage of this service.
Here are a few photos from around the plantation grounds.
Along the sidewalk leading to the outdoor setting among the trees.
Guests enjoyed lots of delicious food while waiting for the bride and groom, even sampling an item I’d never tried before — deep fried artichoke hearts. Yum! Why, oh why, didn’t I get a photo?
A fun photo booth was set up, too, with guests getting a souvenir strip of comical photos of themselves while a duplicate strip was kept in a book for the bride and groom with accompanying notes from the guests. We got lots of laughs seeing our former pastor, Dr. Edwin Jenkins, wearing a Minions hat, planning to delight his 13 grandchildren. 🙂
Our photo booth results — it looks like I’m with a famous country singer. Ha!
The delicious cakes were made for the couple by a family member. I’d never seen a set of books for a groom’s cake, but it made a stunning display.
Several other scenes from the reception.
Some of the origami cranes.
Who out there in blog-reading land knows about vintage cars? Can you name the make, year and model of this “getaway car?”
The “getaway car.”
We certainly pray for a long and happy marriage for this sweet couple and extend our congratulations to the bride’s parents, Barry and Teresa Carroll, for successfully planning/implementing/paying for/surviving yet another wonderful wedding.
And, for those of you with daughters looking for a very nice wedding venue, Hampton Cove Wedding Plantation would be a great choice.
I think the photo booth is a great idea! Love the pictures and love old cars…just don’t know anything about them. Looks like great fun Connie.