Finally, George Struck Gold and Got Married

George has been busy with his gold mining and he finally struck gold right here in Kansas....ME!
If you want to read the real gold strike read www.thegoldprospectors.blogspot.com.  This is George and Dave's Alaskan gold mining adventure.  This is how is all started. 

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The Theme

The theme was Gold mining.  Go figure.  We had a beautiful topper cake with a small gold pan complete with spilling gold nuggets.  If you notice, all the cupcakes are in gold pans.   I have to say it turned out cute.  The wedding was at Wyldewood Winery in Mulvane, KS outside of Wichita.  They hold a lot of receptions and were very impressed and complimented us on our unique theme.  They had never seen anything like it and they said they had seen a lot of different themes.  We had a lot of fun planning it. 
We used Standard Cakes out of Haysville.  I used regular flower pots and George spayed the rims gold and we put styrofoam ball in them.  Our cake guy, Marvin, then made beautiful cupcakes that looked like flowers and attached them with toothpicks to the ball making them look like potted flowers.  We had an old flower stand George spay painted gold and the cake decorator used his creative flare and set up the table. 

The center pieces

These are the center pieces.  They're a pick and shovel.  Maybe a little different from the universal gold mining pick and shovel, but all I had to work with were garden tools.  The best way to get a guy on board with wedding details is make it about their passion.  George made all the bases out of wood.  He spay painted them with brown paint to seal the wood.  After spending hours cutting and painting and sanding he then spent more hours with the finishing touches.  He applied a coat of stone wash to give a sandy rough look.  Then he spayed them black and put some gold glitter.  George calls it my idea and his creation.  He did good.

 

Gold and Beautiful

We only had one flower arrangement and of course it was gold.  We had this on our gift table.  We sprinkled the table with diamond like beads and the kids loved salting their candy bags.  Thank you all for your gifts and gift cards.  We are using our gift cards on our Alaskan vacation and several of the gifts are perfect for our 5th wheel.  It meant so much to have everyone there. 

Let's Smash...I mean eat some cake

George and I discussed the cake ritual.  Since we had cupcakes we didn't have to cut any cake.  We agreed we were NOT going to do any cake smashing.  It was me, I admit it.  I saw all the cameras in front of us and something just came over me.  It was if I had no choice.  I sized up the situation and saw that if George would just open his mouth a little wider, this cupcake would fit in it.  Well I was a little shy of a good fit so I decided to push it in with my hand.  George on the other hand was going to play by the rules... that is until I smooshed it.  He said later he saw that look in my eye and knew it was coming but he decided to be patient and wait.  He said he knew he could be quick enough to get me.  after all, he is an old basketball star. And get me he did. 

 

All the Gold...In California

Our son in law, Jason, took an opportunity to do some karaoke.  I was surprised he could sing so well.  When they played the song, All The Gold in California, he got George to sing along.  If you look you can see George's grandson, Grant, joining in.  He looks just like George when he was young and is already a good little gold panner. 

Rock Me Mama

This is our son in law, Jason, providing some great entertainment singing ROCK ME MAMA.  You can see where the kids get their talent.  I am so lucky to marry into this family. 

"Mama" Jennifer is dancing with one of their daughters while Jason serenades.

Tate entertaining

Our Country music star

Here's Kynlee singing a popular country music song.  My only regret is I didn't get the whole thing.  I cut the recording just before the "chew tobacco, chew tobacco, chew tobacco spit."  Oh how I wish I would have gotten the whole thing.  It was pretty entertaining. 

Family

A family pic

This is George and I with my son (minus his wife and 3 children), my daughter, her husband and our 3 grandchildren.

Best Kind of Entertainment

This is one of our grandson's Grant showboating. He sings very well as do his brother and sisters. They were very entertaining. I wish they would have done the opening entertainment.

Our Friends and Guests

THE END

There's no better way to say The End than than with this adorable pic.  Kynlee gave it her all to make it a wonderful and memorable night for us.

.  Thanks to everyone for your love and support.