Beautiful Wedding

Sarah arrives from stretch Hummer...

Murray with his 3 children and the Bride

Last weekend Murray and I flew to Melbourne to attend the wedding of his eldest son Jeremy (30 yrs). He met his lady love Sarah, a nurse, almost 9 years ago, and they celebrated their marriage in a well-orchestrated garden wedding in Daylesford, Victoria. Sarah was a radiant bride and was attended by 3 bridesmaids - they all arrived in a stretch black Hummer. The bridesmaids included one of her nursing friends, Murray's only daughter Stephanie, and his other son's (Adrian) wife of two years, Danielle. The dresses looked fantastic (although not much protection from the chilly wind) and they shimmied as they danced. have no doubt they will come in handy at parties and other events. The Groom looked very dashing, as did his 3 groomsmen.

The wedding was held in Daylesford, about 1.5 hours NW of Melbourne. Bushfires have been burning there in recent weeks, and we saw a treed area of bushland badly burnt at a property on the way to the wedding venue. The countryside is tinder dry, so the fires would not need much encouragement to get started. On the day of the wedding there was a biting, cold, brisk wind and fortunately no sign of the scorching temperatures they had experienced recently.

On Friday night we stayed with a friend I knew back when my youngest was born almost 25 years ago. She now lives near Ballarat, where it is sad to see all the gardens brown and dusty. They have not been able to water gardens for several years now, due to the drought conditions. The day after the wedding we enjoyed catching up with another friend Pam from my Air Force days along with her husband Dennis. There were other colleagues from my Air Force days in town that I would have loved to catch up with, but time was tight, and before we knew it, we were flying back to green, warm Ballina.