Build-up to the big event

Jer may appear calm and composed but....





here's the real Jer!!




It was fun because he came to our room to get ready for the wedding. A precious father and son time and I'm glad to have caught a bit of it with Courtney's camera.

All the family was staying at the Faculty Club on the Berkeley campus. Great old building (about 120 years old, I think) by Julia Morgan. Reminded me of being at Asilomar or Yosemite. The guest rooms were upstairs and downstairs there were sitting areas like this one below...




and big beautiful dining rooms like this one where we had the reception.





There were two weddings at the Faculty Club that day, but we had the "Grand Hall" for our reception and they had a smaller hall with outdoor patio attached for theirs. So Courtney and I immediately named theirs the "Lesser Wedding". Snobs?!? Who, us!?!



Just outside these windows pictured above is the Faculty Glade, where the wedding took place. Sooooo lovely. Lush green grassy lawn with big old spreading trees. Beautiful, simple, natural and elegant.

I guess this is as much drum roll as I can get away with. Next comes the pics of the wedding,

Valori