Bennett's Travels: Wedding time!!!

Flew into Redmond from Orlando, Florida yesterday afternoon, Wednesday, November 12, 2014. We went first into Atlanta, then Portland and then on to Redmond where Ken's sister, Pat, picked us up. Had to get up at 4:00am eastern time to get to the airport on time soooooooooooo, yesterday was a very long day ! ! ! So nice to be able to give hugs to most of the family.

Woke up to this view ! ! Kristina is soooooooooo excited. She really wanted a white wedding. It is beautiful. We are right across from Corey and Angela's camper.

Today, Thursday, we start the set up in the lodge and work all through Friday. Lots of work to do to transform it into the beautiful winter wonderland that Kristina and Chris want.

Sure hope that the roads clear so that all the guests can come on Saturday. It will really all come together. Melissa from Montana and Whitney from Australia came in Thursday night. Got through the pass fine from their families in Salem. So happy that they can be here for Kristina. They have been friends since way back, I think elementary school. Lots of food prep and flowers, steaming the linens and getting the tables set. Rehearsal dinner Friday night too! ! ! Christina, the hair dresser, will be coming from Salem Friday. Hopefully Dianne doesn't have any problems either coming from Salem with Kenny and Alyssa. Haven't seen them for three months either. Can't wait to catch up with them.

Lots to get done with a dinner tonight and then sit down dinner tomorrow. This is gonna be so fun !

Planning, planning, constant planning, however the lists and diagrams are a fantastic help !! Karen and Kristina are so very organized and have terrific vision.

I can't seem to get all my pictures in the order that I want them so lighting pictures are all mixed in with others ! !

Moving all the parks stuff upstairs so that there is room for all the wedding stuff.

Corey helping get the bar set up with the wine barrel tables

Gale and Kristina working on the wine barrels too!

These tables go where ??? Kristina has the answers !

Karen and Kristina thinking it through...

Casey built this arbor for the kids to have in their garden at home after the wedding. It is beautiful ! ! He does great work !!

The lights were a HUGE project ! Made the space so cool, especially after dark! Was beautiful !

Moving the parks stage upstairs! WOW...

Getting warm by the fire !

Melissa and Whitney steaming away !

Steaming linens took about a full day. They took a lot of work. Whitney and Melissa really were sooooo so good and there were so many linens. They really took charge and recruited many others to help.