Maria and Joe ~ 10 year anniversary, vows, and a party!

My blogging has fallen behind, by about three weeks or more.  Sorry about that, life gets in the way sometimes.  Plus I have had a few that haven’t signed their model release forms,  so no peeks at those till I have them.  It’s also been a crazy summer.  Well really, when isn’t summer crazy?

One cool thing that happened, and that I can share with you is that my friends, Maria & Joe celebrated their 10 year anniversary by a vow renewal.

They kind of had a whirl wind courtship when they first met.  Actually, how they met is a little weird.  Maria is from England, and came to Canada for her uncles funeral.  And at the funeral she met a cute boy named Joe.  Yup, they met at a funeral people!  

So after a few months, they decided to get married.  Joe flew over to England, where they tied the knot.  Then Maria moved back to Canada with him.  Ten years, and 3 kids later……they are still crazy in love.

So Maria asked us girls to be in her wedding and read the poems that were read at the first wedding.  Us girls were, Matea, Tammy, Christine and myself.  Joe and Maria asked my husband to officiate.

Maria also wanted me to take pictures.  Problem, how to do that while standing up front and reading.  So we got my 15 year daughter, Tannis to take pictures during the service and during the party.  I would shoot their official pictures in between.  Problem solved.

So I will start with the ones Tannis shot:

Joe wrote and sang a song to Maria when they first started dating.  He sang it to her again as she was walked down the aisle by their son.  Poor Joe was so nervous, but he did great.

Did I ever mention how nervous I get having to stand up in front of people?  Ya, I also tend to get the giggles when I get nervous.  Well, I started to giggle…..but thankfully my friend Tammy was there to keep me in check.  Thanks for the poke in the side there Tam!

Maria and Joe reading their vows.  Actually, Maria read hers.  Joe followed it up with a “Ditto”

This is Joe’s dad.  He was the only one of Joe’s family members to make it to England for their wedding.  So nice that many of Joe’s family could be there for the vow renewal.

Time to visit and enjoy some wine!

My first glass of wine after getting through the reading.  Ahhhhh!

Now for the official pics!

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