Tina & James Wedding plus HBH stories...

The wedding of Tina and James...

Saturday was warm and breezy and perfect for a ceremony beside the river. I set out white flowers in the house watering can on the front step to welcome the bridal party and guests, and did all those little errands necessary to make the details fall perfectly into place. The bridal party's friend, John, manned the gate to direct parking, and the groomsmen, resplendent in tux's, sunglasses and perfect smiles, mingled just as they should.

The wedding of James and Tina was simply beautiful, with the bride escorted by her father down the formal lawn to a white rose covered arbor looking over the riverbank. White chairs were set facing the river and the music carried over the gardens and onto the river. In fact, the folks across the river stopped everything to take it in as well.

Congratulations Tina and James! You are such a lovely couple.

Here are photos from the ceremony and the photo shoot afterward, some of which took place in the orchard.
Sandra























Bed & Breakfast House Stories
This is a most wonderful position to have; I meet people from all over the world (so far China, England, the U.S., all parts of Canada, and it's only been 1 month!) and share stories just as varied. But this story is from the very back yard of the Haig-Brown's themselves...

Today I escorted 3 people through the house. They had stopped by on Saturday, and after seeing the wedding under way, opted to return at a quieter time. And we are all glad for that.
Vi (I would guess in her 60's) related how she grew up next door to here, in a house her grandmother had owned since its beginning, and she told me of the last time she had visited here and had tea with Ann Haig-Brown on the then-grass terrace. Vi was 12 years old.
Then she pointed to the other woman in the trio (the third being Vi's husband, Benny) and explained this was her sister - whom she had just found 1 month ago!
Lorraine had been given for adoption at 4 months old, when Vi was only 4, barely remembering playing with her as a little baby.
Apparently, Vi had begun looking for her sister 10 years ago, and even been close several times without even knowing it. You see Lorraine was raised in Rossland (interior B.C.). Vi, while living in the lower mainland as an adult, had a very dear friend from Rossland. After the sisters rediscovered each other, Vi mentioned this fact to her dear friend and asked if she had known Lorraines' adoptive family. The friend replied that her younger sister was the one who had played with Lorraine as a child... and so it goes. That weird yet interesting phenomenon of 6 (or 3) degrees of separation... There were many other interesting little notations, too many to mention here, which seemed to have relationships between them and their families and friends, mostly dates of births / anniversaries / names / places / etc. Today, these three had huge smiles all the time they were here, and reminisced about the lives lived, and not lived, in the fields and river here. It was a lovely and loving sight.
Sandra