The Reception!

The reception was held at Moody Hall at VMI after the ceremony and some pictures.

Tom Newhall’s New Corner Grocery band started off the cocktail hour by playing some bluegrass tunes for us, while servers walked around with trays of bacon wrapped scallops and other lovely food selections. (I cooked bacon wrapped scallops the night that I proposed to Virginia) For beverages, we brought Appalachian Ale from Boone, and wines from Rockbridge Vineyards.

 

 

 

 

 

We talked to our guests and enjoyed a few drinks before going inside and getting things kicked off.

After being announced, Virginia and I had our first dance to Ray Charles singing “It had to be you”. As a side note, we did away with the typical annoying wedding DJ. I took care of the music selection and our friend Josh took care of stopping and starting the iPod. Using this method, things went smooth as silk, there were no hiccups in the music, no annoying DJ blabber, and of course, we controlled the volume.

 

Virginia and her father danced to Paul Simon’s “Father and Daughter”

 

 

 

 

… and my mother and I danced to Barry Manilow’s “I am your child”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martha delivered a lovely toast followed by a toast from Jonathan, and a prayer from Virginia’s father. Now, we were ready to eat.

For dinner music, I played a bunch of selections from the Vitamin String Quartet. They take classic rock tunes (and some contemporary) and play them as a string quartet. Pretty awesome stuff. For those who notice that the tunes were classic rock, it was an added bonus… for those who didn’t notice, it was just nice violin music. So… win-win.

Here we are on the VMI parade field in front of the barracks. It was a lovely day, and great weather. We’ll finish this post off by letting the pictures do the talking again.