Niece's Wedding in Oakville

I've gotten terribly behind in my blog posts.  I'm sorry to all my regular readers.  I hope you haven't all disappeared.  Some of the reasons I have gotten so far behind are, that I don't think it as interesting when I am mostly stationary, I've been busy having fun and making memories and in some places I have not had the best internet access. Over the next few weeks I hope to get caught up on what I have done in the last 8 months. 

The major focus of the Spring and Summer of 2017 was the activities surrounding my nieces wedding, which was held September 10th.  They were fortunate that it turned out weather wise to be a great day for an outdoor wedding.  

A couple of days in advance of the wedding I moved my trailer from Silver Dove Estates to Bronte Creek Provincial Park.  The morning of the wedding, my nephew came for a visit, including lunch (I managed to convince him to do the grilling), getting dressed and heading to the wedding.  It was a great visit.  I think the last time we had seen each other was in the fall of 2016 when I was in the Niagara Area for the GTA Am Tour Championship, though looking back at the blog, I didn't mention it.  I know it was since I had the trailer, because that visit was his first chance to see it. We had a lot to catch up on, including that he was planning on relocating from Niagara-on-the-lake to Calgary to advance his career. 

The wedding venue was very lovely for a small wedding (about 100 guests).  It was held at The Harding Waterfront Estate, right on Lake Ontario. 

The grooms family, being larger, was better represented than mine.  Only a few of my relatives were in attendance.  

My mother, may she rest in peace, a wedding planner before it was an actual profession, would have been pleased with the event.  Everything was lovely.  The DJ/MC helped to keep things on schedule and made it fun. 

Of course my niece looked beautiful in her wedding gown.  

Her groom was handsome. 

Both sets of parents were supportive. The bridal party, made up of dear friends of the bride and groom looked terrific and played their roles brilliantly. 
The ceremony was meaningful and the meal nicely served and delicious. 

The dancing was extensive and the desert buffet was scrumptious. 

As the service was on a Sunday, not too many guests made it to the end, when the bride and groom were reportedly being picked up by limo to go to a nearby hotel to spend their first wedded night.  Even I cut out before the very end. 

The only negative part of the day was learning by email just after I sat down for dinner that my husband Ron, had passed away early that morning.  Though we had been separated for about 5 years, I still had feelings for him.   We had gone for lunch in late June and we had spoken just before the Labor Day weekend and were planning on getting together later in September at Silver Dove Estates.  I have been trying to reach him in the week leading up to the wedding but was unable to get an answer on either of his phones.  It turned out that the reason was he was in hospital from Tuesday to Sunday, when he passed away.  His children chose not to inform me until the end had come and at that point they asked that I not attend the service that would be held for him.  Reference is often made to the circle of life, but usually it is one dies and another is born.  In this instance one marriage ended and another began.  RIP Ron.