The wedding I was here for today was at a retreat just outside of West Chester, PA, which got more than five inches of rain as a result of our uninvited guest. Did I mention the wedding was supposed to be outdoors?
West Chester is more than an hour outside Philly. When you factor in the rain and our course corrections after missing turns, it was good we left early.
Thanks to some last minute planning last night (I'm told) the entire event was moved inside in a hurry, though the indoor facilities were much more cramped than the outdoor venue. It's a shame, because the setting out there in the Pennsylvania countryside would have been beautiful on a clear late-Summer morning.
The wedding was very nice the way it turned out, but it's sad that the bride couldn't get the wedding the way she had been planning it for many months.
The whole wedding was very delayed in getting started anyway because of the weather conditions impacting the preparations of the wedding party. In fact, the wedding party was more than an hour late to the reception because pictures were originally supposed to be outside also, but they had to make do inside.
It was really good to see old friends again, so I'm quite glad I made the effort to come out. The bride is one of my very close friends from high school, and there were other friends from high school.
Fortunately the rain was over by the evening, so our plans tomorrow shouldn't get rained out.
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