Dolphin and Mike Get Married
AKA: Mikephin Day
It was an old school gathering of family and friends of the Zephyr community where Dolphin grew up.
There were bagpipes playing (by Mike’s dad), people wearing fake mustaches, fresh halibut on the fire-pit, and smoked salmon from Alaska where Mike and Dolphin met and now live.
Dolphin’s father Bob sang an original song that was inspired from a dream and her mother Jayn recited a poem she had written for the occasion.
A stormy wind blew in, adding a dramatic touch as Dolphin and Mike exchanged vows, lead by fellow-Zephyrite Katherine Chantal.
When raindrops fell during the hand-fasting part of the ceremony someone said, “ A wet knot doesn’t come undone.”
Fireworks and flowers, Chinese lamps and lights strung in trees, children playing at Zephyr pond and spinning on the dance floor, a funny and touching slide-show of Dolphin and Mike’s life in Alaska, she as a teacher and he in marine sciences, brought tears to my eyes.
The dancing at the reception, held in Jayn’s back yard, with homeboy Ben Bradburn mixing records at the turntable, was the closest I’ve come to a mosh pit.
It was a smoking party, the event of the summer, the year or the decade and plain to see that Mike and Dolphin were made for each other. XO!
June 20th, 2011 2:11 am
A beautiful bride and a lovely wedding party.
I love the part about the wet knot not coming undone. A fitting moment for a wedding.
June 20th, 2011 8:08 am
Such a beautiful couple, and beautiful joining of two beautiful lives! I am happy for them. And I love the wet knot too 🙂 It sounds like you had a tear and some fun – great!
June 20th, 2011 4:22 pm
Happy them! Amen!
June 22nd, 2011 9:39 am
Looks like so much fun!! I wish I were there and so happy to see Dolphin happy with her new husband!
PS I remember her as a child of the sun at a very young age xo
June 22nd, 2011 9:50 am
I think of her sister as the sun and Dolphin as the moon, as those are their middle names!
June 23rd, 2011 12:22 am
[…] The photo above is of me taking an intermission on my friend Jayn’s bed from her daughter’s wedding, which was held in upper field where it rained, hence the mud on my […]
June 23rd, 2011 12:34 pm
Thanks for sharing such a lovely day with us.
Happy T13!
December 13th, 2024 2:47 am
The wind blew Dolphin’s beautiful wedding dress in the stormy winds!