Rehearsal Dinner!  After the hard work of rehearsing and traipsing down the aisle a time or two, we headed off to the Devries' for a yummy supper of Lemon Grass thai food and some good fellowship between both families and our friends!  There was a lot of love flowing through that house and we felt super blessed and grateful to our God for allowing this special time to happen and bring us together!

Giving a little welcome and speech at the rehearsal dinner!

I really liked this picture - to me it spoke of how the evening went - a mix of the two families and friends -

 sharing food together is a bonding experience and we sure had lots of food to share! 

Thanks so much Mom and Dad Devries!  Carina, Tanan and Rochelle are enjoying the feast!

 

Dad's looking a mite quizzical here at his son-in-law to be in a mere 16 hours or so...

but Timothy's relaxed and happy to be done the practice run!!!

Timothy's sisters came up with a really neat idea - they had found paper balloons that you can write well-wishes and thoughts on, then when they're done, you take them outside, light the fuel source under the balloon and they take off up into the skies...carrying the wishes up!  I was hoping we wouldn't set the neighbourhood on fire but there were no issues and everyone had fun adding their ideas to the balloons!

Then we went outside, a giant street party and watched as they were lit and flew off up into the heavens...

 first Timothy's, then mine - and they joined each other in flight!  It was a really neat idea,

one i had never seen before and was so thankful we got to participate in this!

We felt very enveloped by love and support from everyone and were so thankful that

 everyone could be there and be part of our pre-big-day!

Angela took on the dangerous job of lighting the balloons whilst Tom was an able-bodies helper. 

They went up so high, we were so amazed!!!  They seemed to turn into stars themselves!

Only hours to go until the big moment!

We both headed to our respective parent's places for a much-needed night's rest before the busyness and excitement of the wedding day.