Steph and Rivers wedding

My beautiful and incredibly intelligent sister, Steph, and her perfectly suited husband Rivers Pusey, got married in August in the Columbia Rivers Temple in Washington.  I just have to point out that I am always finding myself wishing that I could have been more like my little sister. For example, as much as I truly wore the dress of my dreams for my wedding, it cost a whopping $2000 and I think that my sister got it right by looking so beautiful in her $30 dress she bought from a street vendor in Mexico! Also, she got a family member to take her photos- which turned out AMAZING and I just HAD to go with the $3000 photographer-whose photo's pale in comparison to Steph's 'amateure' photographer! And while I did go quite simple on my bouquet, I admire that Steph's bouquet was wild flowers from the backyard!!! So the way I look at it is this way- I just had to take a lot for the team being the firstborn, you know? MANY lessons were learned by my siblings at my expense. ANYWAY, enough of my rambling. It was a beautiful ceremony and the couple were giddy and excited to be married.  After the ceremony, a gorgeous and yet simple reception took place in Rivers' family's backyard. His mother is a Martha Stewart-type and transformed the backyard into a scene out of Shakespeare's, 'Midsummer Night's Dream'. There was an open mic (as Steph and all of Rivers' family are incredibly musical) and Rivers and his brothers took over and entertained the guests with their amazing voices and abilities to play several instruments beautifully. It was a wonderful night and I am so happy that Steph married such a fantastic guy!