A weekend ago, Daryl, Abbi and I traveled out to southern Missouri to celebrate w/ my younger brother Stephen and his sweetheart Lorraine. This day has been long in coming and we are so happy for Steve that he found such a wonderful person to share the rest of his life with.

Here is Lorraine all sparkly and beautiful, at her house, ready to go do her wedding portraits.

The first look. They had a beautiful beautiful wedding day. I was expecting to roast in the southern Missouri late summer, but it was just as pleasant as could be, with not a cloud in sight.

What can I say, but I think their kiddies are going to have beautiful brown eyes one day:-)

Lorraine’s beautiful bouquet.

My handsome brother.

all the fair maidens.

My family. Fun trivia: in one years time, we will have gained 5 family members!  It’s been a busy year:-)

And some reception details.

Lorraine found a picture of her wedding cake in a magazine and her baker was able to copy it exactly! I think she was happy about that!

Everything was so sparkly.

yummers!