Notes from a Wedding Weekend in Maine

I literally have 9 minutes before I have to walk home and relieve our sitter, who has to get home and make dinner for her and her son.

So, quick dash, weekend memories. Would do at home but our WiFI bill is late, so I can't work on my laptop, just on my small, squinty iPhone screen.

• The bride and groom are winning triathletes. Lauren and Matt are pretty amazing. Her family is from Charleston, South Carolina; his is from Belfast, Maine.
• They looked lovely. I liked the vows they wrote for each other. I liked the Vesper Hill Children's Chapel in Rockport, where they married. Matt's parents had married there as young lovers just over 38 years ago!
• My favorite dress, next to the bride's strapless gown, was the one her friend Misty wore. It was blue lace the color of Wedgwood, short and fitted. She is in incredible shape and I think an athlete, too, like Lauren.
• The food at Primo Restaurant in Rockland was so good. Farm-to-table. Salad with tiny goat cheese-hazelnut "truffles," cut-with-a-fork tenderloin, baby potatoes mixed with tender corn. We walked around during cocktail hour and saw dozens of chickens, pigs, apple trees, lettuce patches, flowers growing. Loved it.
• I liked meeting the bride's family from the South--imagine going up to Maine! I liked Lauren's grandmother, born and raised in Charleston. Her name is Patsy, like my close friend. But her formal name, if I have it right, is Violet Patat. Love that.
• My mother-in-law looked pretty, on the eve of her 90th birthday on October 10. She wore a strand of pearls over her outfit. Her white hair looked lovely.

And now it's time to walk home. I will write more tomorrow.