Pennsylvania in September 2007, Before the Wedding

This September was a mixture of pre-wedding madness, -a thousand miniscule decisions and a lot of running around, and great pleasure in catching up with friends and family, mounting excitement as overseas wedding guests began to trickle in.

Jolie and Lovely Lena. Jolie did an amazing job on the flowers, nearly all of which came from the gardens of her clients and were a lot of local wildflowers. We met a few times to hang out and to discuss all things green and bloomable, and we got to do some of the flower picking too!

My dad came along and helped us pick out a kilt for Craig. We suggested he could wear one too, an idea which seemed to quietly percolate through his head and suddenly resurface later on.

We spent the first week staying with Eileen and Ewald, ever gracious hosts and warm, wonderful people.

Takumi was the first guest to arrive. We had time to hang out together, we ate at a late night diner, saw some jazz with my dad. And we also went along to watch my nephew Cody's soccer game with the whole family. Pictured here is my sister Beth, her husband Bill, Cody and Dylan.

The next guests to arrive were Cathie, Craig's mum, Coralie, her sister from Botswana, and Tim Riley, a good friend from Melbourne. We took a pleasant walk through the nearby Ridley Creek State Park and had a big breakfast at a cafe owned by two of Zoe's sisters, Willow and Rainy.

The rest of the Robertson clan arrived: Craig's brother Neil & his partner Stacey, cousin Gary from the UK. We had some drinks, nibbles and laughs on our balcony in our swish new home.