Cai & Gillian Wedding

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We were in Victoria, BC for a few days to attend the July 12 wedding of (our great nephew) Mordecai and Gillian (his partner of several years). They were married in a lovely wooded outdoors setting overlooking the mountains at the Owl Grove — a short distance out of Victoria towards Sooke. The wedding party included Eleanor their lovely young daughter as a "Flower Girl". Gill's sister Megan was the Matron of Honor and Megan's daughter was also a flower girl.

Jeananne walked the aisle with Cai to give him away. That was cute and meaningful.

This was very much a non-traditional wedding. The officiant was quite the hoot! We enjoyed the service, the location, and were duly impressed with the bridal party.

The reception, after the wedding, was at the Metchosin Community Hall where the bridal party came storming in to the music of Blur, Song No 2 (the infamous Woo Hoo Song). That was a nice touch. There was lots of good food, speeches, jokes and games. But we ducked out early. We're no longer the party 'til you puke gang of our youth.

It was a well organized event, the bride and groom were both glowing. As were parents on both sides and grandmother Ellen (our sister). Noelle and Grier came out for the wedding and stayed the week visiting with Ellen. We flew home Tuesday morning after a brief visit to Ocluelet and the west coast of the island.