Wedding Crashers

Today we attended our first American church wedding. The bride is someone our kids have befriended on visits here, so since they couldn't make it over for her big day, the least we could do was attend and enjoy ourselves in their place. (Don't ever say we still don't do whatever we can for our children despite living 3,000 miles apart!) The venue was the magnificent SS Peter and Paul Church in downtown Naperville. Despite having suffered terrible storms all week, the sun shone all day as the temperatures rose.

Here comes the bridesmaid....

..and here come some more.

The excited bride, Andrea, with her proud dad.

Keeping it all in the family, Andre and TJ were married by the bride's uncle.

Somethings are the same the world over. Every dances to the YMCA. Do you know they still do the Birdie Song and the Hokey Cokey too, although over here it's the Chicken Dance and the Hokey Pokey? (We decided to sit those out).

Let them eat cake - a chocolately cream confection was cut up for dessert.

At the end of the evening, we discovered we shared something in common with the newlyweds. They are going to Disneyland, California for their honeymoon. We did the same thing 28 years ago. Of course then Donald was still a chick....