The venue manager asked Juli and Kerne yesterday if they wanted to reschedule ("NO!"), but then the weather forecast just kept getting worse. Kellie decided that we could all go up today before it started, but she didn't feel comfortable driving other people's children up (photographer, boyfriends, etc.); the cook and the pig couldn't make it from Portland area, and we're expecting widespread power outages because of the ice and wind.
They've decided to spend the day on the phone and reschedule the wedding for sometime next week, when the temperature gets above freezing and everything turns into normal Seattle rain again.
Jerry is going up to Seattle to fetch Gran this morning and bring her back to Olympia. Juli will store all the equipment and food I took up yesterday, in her hotel. I told her to snag all the fruit I took up (melons, pineapples, etc.), take it home, and eat it as a consolation prize. (When she lived at home, that girl could go through 10 pounds of fruit a week).
Postponing will cost a little more money for things we have to re-buy and re-rent, but as Juli said, "this is not so important as to put people's lives at risk." It is that dangerous a storm.
The decision they had to make is actually just the kind married couples have to make all through their lives--what you want, versus what is the right thing to do. I'm proud of them, yet feel so bad that all their hard work and anticipation and planning has been negated by the weather.
I'm feeling a little let-down myself. But relief too, that maybe being prudent is a good way for them to start out their married life.
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Pam,
I hope you got my phone message today. Keeping ya'll in my thoughts.
Hannah
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