Jameson and Rebecca's Wedding

Jameson and Rebecca's Wedding

July 5, 2025

Steele, VA

• They got engaged in February and Rebekah said she wasn't having a long engagement and she meant it.
• My brother booked an entire BedAndBreakfast house and this decision added so much enjoyment to the event. We all had a common place to hang.
• There were no bridesmaids or groomsmen.  It was just Jameson and Rebecca.
• Fifty people were invited to the wedding.
• Jameson's grandfather made it to the event.  Back in February, we thought he was going to leave this earth. But he rallied today and made it to the ceremony and reception.
• People started arriving throughout the afternoon of the 4th. Friday night, we had a family party at the AirBnB.
• Saturday, the wedding ceremony was in a small church in Steele Tavern.  It lasted about 20 minutes.
• We had a reception at a state park, about an hour away. Friends of the family set up the event and we had hamburgers and mac-n-cheese and other picnic foods.  There was no alcohol as the bride's family are devout Baptists.  But that was OK.
• Rebecca is vegan so her sister made two vegan wedding cakes. And we were all a litttle hesitant to try vegan as it is so foreign to us.
• After the shower, everyone came back to the AirBnB and we had another family party. And there was plenty of alcohol.
• A man stopped by and asked if our place was a restaurant.  He was hungry and looking to eat. So Brian invited him in. We had an official wedding crasher.
• This party didn't end until 12:30AM and I was so damn tired.
• On Sunday, at 7:45AM, my siblings and I had breakfast at the AirBnB and one by one, we slipped in to our cars and went home.
• This weekend was so much damn fun.

Weddings

PERFORMING WEDDINGS

“I just can’t figure out why anyone would ask you to perform their wedding.  You aren’t married.  You don’t care about marriage and you don’t even have a license to perform a wedding. What’s the appeal,” my sister asks?

“You do weddings? ” My brother-in-law chimes in.

“Yes, she’s done a couple of them, can you believe it.”

“I didn’t know you had a license to do that”, Bill adds.

“I don’t. I am just officiate at the ceremony.  I have nothing to do with the legal stuff,“ I reply.

“But why?  Why you of all people”, she asks, not even trying to hide her disbelief.

“Because, some people want no sense of god in their service and they know they can count on me to deliver.  They want strictly a secular ceremony and lots of people have a hard time understanding this.”

“Then why don’t they just say that and get someone who doesn’t mention god. Get a judge or a justice of the peace or something,” she retorts in frustration.

“Because, if you are someone who has a sense of god, that is a really hard concept to understand”, I tell her with a little bit of frustration. “Look at Heather’s wedding, she didn’t want anything church related so she got a judge and that judge threw in a few references to god in the ceremony even though Heather didn’t want that.”

“Well, I guess so”, she admits with a slight tone of resignation.

“But wait, why wouldn’t someone want a reference to god in a wedding.  It is a sacrament after all”, Bill adds.

“That’s just her point, it isn’t a sacrament for everyone”, Trisha adds

“Really?”  He can’t believe what he is hearing.