Wedding Celebration Party

We were married this past September. Our parents were our official witnesses and then we eloped to Olympic National Park where we had an intimate ceremony. Now we want to celebrate with you! Please join us for our wedding celebration reception (adults only). Cocktails and appetizers followed by dinner, drinks, and dancing.

There's something about a marriage of adults, people who own homes and businesses and have families and patterns and traditions. Of course, there is something so sweet and shining about a young bride and groom, and their first home and first dishes and first set of towels. But there is a different beauty and a different force when two people who have been down the road far enough to hit some bumps decide to bend themselves once again toward partnership. Where there was naïveté, here there is sobriety. Where a young bride leaves her family, an older bride brings hers with her. Where a young groom hopes all goes well, an older groom knows what to do when it doesn't. It feels sacred and beautiful and imbued with something heavy. It is a hard-won celebration, a willingness to re-believe in love, to fall again, to teach and be taught, to enter through a door both had believed was closed forever. -Shauna Niequist