So as you can see we updated the website.

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Well your looking at after so I’m not going to add a photo.

So…. On the the next news.

Dawn and I got married!

What can I say, I tried to shoot my own wedding and with a little help from raf we pretty much accomplished it. So below are some of the photos and some of my thoughts.

But before that.

Dawn and I want to let everyone know we wanted to keep this wedding small. So that’s what we did. We made some hard decisions not to include a lot of people. So we hope you will join us sometime Feb or later for a New Orleans wedding reception. Dates will be picked and invites will be sent to everyone.

Now on to the photos.

Full Album is up here.

 

We did a little hike with some friends the day before the wedding it was fantastic I’m so glad we got to show our friends a little piece of Oregon that we love.

We got back and got in the creek had some food, and generally just hung out before dinner was served.

And after some dinner and some drinks we stood around the campfire like you do and just checked out the stars. While our nieces and nephews, ran around with glow sticks and crazy balloons.

My dad properly schooled all the east coast boys on how to play horseshoes.

Our friends getting dressed for the wedding, and chilled the champagne how you do when your camping.

We got married!

Then we signed the paperwork to make it official:

we’re legit!

Caroline started the toasts that almost made us all cry.

Then the reception really kicked off with food and drinks. Pig was roasted, champagne and bourbon was had.

The rest of the night was a wild in the woods party that you had to be there to experience, Bourbon around the campfire, Chris freaking out about seeing sate-lights in space for the first time. Campfires that were to big, missions to get firewood, missions to get people lost from getting firewood. It was a blast.

Breakfast the next morning was awesome, mexican eggs, and left over pork / lots of yummy treats.

Chris Raf, and Raz had to leave so there were some goodbyes.

Mergel Family photo

Dawn and I took a hike the next day after everyone left.

The end one last shot of our campsite as we like to take photos of our little camp setups.

Man what a long strange trip its been, I’ve known dawn for 23years maybe longer. We never thought that any of this would happen.

I mean look at us at our high school graduation, now look at us again.

I still have crazy hair, dawn is still just as beautiful.

We talk a lot about how lucky we are just to be together with each other to share this life with each other. But this wedding showed us its not just us its everyone in our lives, you are so special to us you make our lives awesome. You are our friends, our family, and as the saying goes friends are the family that you choose. So thank you for making this happen for us, We pretty much got exactly what we wanted and we couldn’t have planned it better.

 

Please have a look at the full album we have hundreds of other photos that aren’t in this post.

Full Album is up here.