Rehearsal Dinner / Set-Up

Well, this weekend was yet another gorgeous wedding. This was the wedding of Nat Oliver and Erin Fay, and it was held at Skylark Farm off the the Blue Ridge Parkway in beautiful Virginia.
The farm sits on a mountain-top and offered great views of the changing leaves all around.

The flowers were still blooming... even though all of the leaves were changing... it was really neat... the bright colors of the flowers, and the subdued yellow, orange and red on the trees....
This lovely spiral staircase was the pathway from the ground level to the 3rd floor of the house we were staying in. The width of the staircase is about 3"-4" narrower than my shoulders. The only time it was slightly a problem was carrying the luggage up.. but, the awesome room and views from the top of the mountain totally made up for that.
This is Anne pulling pork. Before too long, we took over. This was a wonderful idea. The pork was for the rehearsal dinner, and they had smoked and cooked an entire pig. AWESOME. The somewhat down-side of this, is that this cooking and smoking was done with rather large chunks of pig. In order to make that pork edible by the general public, you've got to shred, or "pull" the pork into smaller pieces. The process is amazingly complex. First, you grab a chunk of cooked and smoked pig. Next, you rip it apart into tiny pieces and put it in a bowl. The complexity comes, when you factor in the additional tasks that must be preformed at the same time. The pork pulling team consisted of myself, Virginia, Will (Brother of the bride) and his girlfriend Meredith. So... additional task for us included: Drinking beer (They had a keg of Shiner for the rehearsal dinner); talking about anything and everything to come to mind, and casually slipping pieces of hot pork into our mouths while no-one else was paying attention. All in all..... it was awesome. Give me a call if you need some pork pulled.
Here, the morning of the wedding, Virginia hangs pictures of the bride and groom around the tent that will later on house the reception. The pictures were Clothes-pinned onto ribbons around the tent and a large collage was placed in a 3 foot clothes-pin at the entrance of the tent.