Worth The Trip!

The wedding, and recovery from same, is now over. It may have been the most fun wedding we have ever been to. Starting with the rehearsal dinner on Friday night. It was great food at a beautiful setting, and did I mention "open bar". We got to meet all the parents and wedding party as well as see a slideshow of the history of Mike and Sarah. The wedding on Saturday was at the Stratford Hotel, which is right in the middle of the Cornell University campus. Odd to have a hotel on campus I thought, until I found out Cornell has a world famous school of Hotel Administration which the hotel is part of. Mike and Sarah didn't want the wedding to be too conventional and it certainly wasn't as it started with Kate, Mike's sister, explaining how the two had met and what they had been doing in the last 9 1/2 years besides answering the question "When are you guys going to get married?. Then the bride and groom gave the reasons they wanted to marry each other. Mike's consisted of a Top Ten List. Sarah's mother, who is an ordained minister in Nevada (also legal in New York), performed the marriage ceremony. The vows were also unconventional but beautiful, she finished by saying "Mike, you may now kiss my daughter." The reception was a delicious sit down dinner with more silverware than I have ever seen at one setting. Mike played another slide/video show of how a cheerleader fell in love with him, the high school quarterback (actually a trombone playing geek). There was a fun DJ, dancing, and an open bar from 5:00 pm until midnight. The next morning breakfast was provided at the hotel for the people staying there and any other guests that wanted to attend.
We spent yesterday recuperating and walking a steep but beautiful 2 mile state park trail along several waterfalls just a couple of miles from where we are staying. All rested up today and going sightseeing in Corning.