stu and jacqui's (vancouver) wedding

Last month our good friends Stu and Jacqui celebrated their wedding here in Vancouver. They were married officially in September, and then celebrated in Australia and finally came back to their (adopted) home city of Vancouver. They had asked our girls to be their flower girls, but we felt that it wasn't right for us to do the trip to Salt Lake in September, though that was really hard to be away from them. So their celebration in Vancouver was especially sweet for us to bless them and celebrate with them.

They really honoured us by allowing Sophia and Nori to be their Vancouver flower girls and asked Wade and I to walk in ahead of them and introduce them. Wade and I (and now the girls) have referred to ourselves as Team Pallister for a long time and we were really thrilled to introduce Team Bishop. (They even have that engraved on the inside of their wedding rings!)

It was such a special day and here are some pics taken by our friend Mark.

This is an unbelievably accurate representation of Eleanor's personality. She has entered the church to do her flower girl walk and has decided that instead ripping the reserved sign off of the pew is the thing to do.


This is the scenario we used to describe our girls to new people we met the next week after the ceremony: Nori has decided that swinging off the reserved ropes on the pews is so much more fun than doing a flower girl walk - flowers are on the floor now. Sophia is entirely focused on her flower girl form, and walking so seriously and taking all her duties so deeply to heart.


Sophia dancing at the front of the church during worship.


Our dear friend Joseph left this blanket as a gift for Jacqui and Stu, and we felt like we were supposed to bless them as a mother and a father of the nation of Canada. It was good. The inner Frank Naea came out in me... if you know what that means, you'll know what that means.



Stu is kind of love with Eleanor. He reckons this is photographic evidence of her stealing his soul.


What is strange is that we hardly ever have pictures taken of all four of us. So nice to have this. See how I planned the little bits of green in our all our outfits? I love stuff like this.



These two have been such, such a gift to us this year. They give us joy like this often.



No idea what I am saying here, but I am apparently still funny.




Stu and Jax figured Soph needed a new Aussie soccer shirt, 'cause the one Leigh and Ange gave her when she was 2 is getting a little small. As you can see, she thinks it's pretty rock and roll, but that's mainly because of the seeds Uncle Leigh has planted.



All photos copyright 2008 Mark Bergshoeff. Not to be used without permission.