Monday, April 27, 2009

What a Wonderful Weekend!

Here are some photos of Karyn and Lafi's wedding. They were married in the St. Louis Temple on April 11, 2009. Congratulations, Best Wishes, and Much Love!!!!!

The cute couple: Introducing Lafi and Karyn Manumaleuna!!!!!!

Okay so these pics are in a pretty random order, but here are a few of my favorite sibling pictures. For those who don't know us I will go clockwise from me (I hope you know me if you are reading this): Linda Voelkel, Karyn Manumaleuna, Jeff Hamblin, Todd Hamblin, Dave Hamblin, Paula Hamblin Rice, John Hamblin . . . and not pictured is Chris Richards.


In order from tallest to shortest: Jeff, Dave, John, Todd, Paula, Chris, Linda, Karyn.
Age order was in another pic. It would be Todd, Paula, Karyn, John, Chris, Jeff, Linda, Dave. Who raised this silly bunch of Hams anyway?!!!
And here they are: Ted and LaWana Hamblin. :) I just love the live tropical flowers at Karyn's wedding. Especially the leis. Beautiful!
My lil bridesmaids. Aren't they sweet.
It meant a lot to my girls to be a part of Karyn and Lafi's special day.


Me and my sistahs. :)Da boyz. I bet this was the first shot. "Can someone tell the guys to take off their glasses?! They look like bouncers!" :)
Huge family gathering.
The reason for our huge family gathering. :) It was such a happy day. We love you guys!!!
Some of the other bridesmaids . . . we are missing Liz. They all looked sooo pretty. These are most of Karyn's nieces.
Okay this silly shoe shot actually means a lot to a few of us. Karyn, Chris, and I went to pick up Paula from the airport late Thursday night. And we were all excited and stayed up late talking and laughing. Well we wanted to see Karyn in her dress so we had a short fashion show. She has fabulous shoes and awesome pedicure and we knew that no one would really notice it so we decided to take a picture. Well no picture was doing the fabulous shoes justice, so we adjusted lighting and tried different poses and several shots later . . . this one was our favorite. Silly, I know. But don't come between a girl and her shoes. :)
What a wonderful day! Such sweet words were spoken at their sealing. And they spent the day surrounded by many many friends and family who were there to support them and celebrate the beginning of their journey together through eternity. And not pictured, but ever present, their Heavenly Father is watching over them and guiding them along their way with an umbrella of covenants to protect and bless them.

4 comments:

  1. every time I look at the circle picture I think of Mom's story. I guess she was standing practically on top of Jeff, so he teases her saying he can see up her skirt. What did my mom say to that? "Ugly isn't it!" Funny lady!

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  2. How fun and exciting to see these pictures. I can tell it was a very special and amazing day for them. I can't wait to see them at the reunion. Love the pictures. Well done to the photographer. :o)

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  3. Yes it's true . . . my Idaho family are responsible for the great pics posted here. I was lame enough to forget my camera that very important day. It's such a bad habit. I remembered my camera at Anna's baptism, but forgot to take pictures. I took 1 . . . count them, 1 . . . picture of her and her daddy in their white clothes . . . and now I can't find it. :{ So I really am truly especially heartfelt-ingly grateful to my wonderful cousin-sister Chris Brown for sharing her photos with me. They are used with her permission and I give full credit and props for the excellent photography to her. THANKS CHRIS!!!!!! :)

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  4. Wow, so exciting! I remember their first date! What a special day! It looks like everyone had a great time.

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