Oh how I love traveling so! My cousin Derek got married this past weekend in beautiful Charleston, SC so we headed out on Thursday and enjoyed the city for 4 wonderful days with the whole family! I had only been to Charleston once (for Amy's Bachelorette party back in February, as you can see here) but the rest of my immediate family had never been. This time I saw less the insides of bars, and more the sights of the city!
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Thursday, Momma, Daddy, Natalie, Stephen, Bennett, Ben, and I took a horse drawn carriage ride through the city; hearing all about the architecture, history, and seeing everything down to the waterfront.
That night we met up with more estended family in town at an incredible restaurant called COAST. I think this was some of the best fresh seafood most of us had enjoyed in a while (even living on the Gulf Coast like we do) and refreshing Peach Mojitos!
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Friday morning, we all met my cousins Summer, Justin, Blake, & Sutton at the South Carolina Aquarium to check out what they had to offer.
Then we went to lunch overlooking this awesome bridge and waterfront.
Friday night was the Rehearsal dinner on the rooftop of a restaurant called The Harbour Club. The weather was actually perfect and we had a great time into the evening.
A fun mode of transportation in Charleston is called a Rickshaw or PedalCab which is basically a bike taxi for 2 people which Ben and I took back from the bar to the hotel that night.
The wedding on Saturday was at a beautiful old home called the Wickliffe House. The ceremony took place outside as you see here below and the reception was inside.
Crystal's beautifully unique cake. Love the broach!
Mr. & Mrs. Derek Spooner's 1st dance
Ben with cousin Sutton... such a sweet baby!
Ben & I (I was laughing at how corny we probably looked, and it showed)
Sparklers as the bride and groom left (which burned me!)
It was SUCH a fun vacation and wedding long weekend. We had a great time seeing all of our family and celebrating with Derek and Crystal. Charleston was the perfect setting for your Destination Wedding and we loved celebrating with you! We wish you a lifetime of happiness and a Blessed marriage!
5 comments:
What a great post! Your pictures are beautiful. I would like to do a screensaver of our trip; maybe you could share? Loved being together; Love yall:)
thanks! no problem... follow this link to my flickr page and you can save my pics to your computer for your screensaver.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erinkennemer/
i need the pics of us yall took on your camera too b/c obviously as u can see i have zero pics of any of the rest of the family on my camera! if u send me some i will update my blog post!
Erin,
Thank you for the post. I was hoping someone took pictures at the rehearsal dinner. Loved having everyone in Charleston for the weekend.
Love you.
i LOVE charleston! What a gorgeous city! Ya'll look great!! glad you had a good weekend!
Loved it e! Wish I knew and would have brought my camera to the rehearsal dinner. We had a blast with yall as always :)
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