The wedding day.....

 7:48 am - Monday - February 2nd - Phoenix, AZ - 52° F, humidity 23%, cloud cover 47%, wind 3 mph out of the east.....partly cloudy skies today with a forecast high of 80° F.  On this date in 2025 TLE and I were enjoying a beautiful sunset.....

at The Wilson Wilderness.

At last, the day of the wedding!  Charles and Phyllis' oldest daughter, Christina, was up in Sedona taking a class to be able to perform weddings, while TLE and Phyllis put the finishing touches on desserts and the meal to follow the wedding.  The plan was that after Christina completed her training she would join us via ZOOM.  TLE and I took a walk mid morning of about 1 mile, something we haven't done for a while.  

By 4 pm Christina had joined via ZOOM, along with a dozen, or so family and friends who could not be in Phoenix.  The rest of us gathered in the living room for the ceremony.....

Christina

The bride and groom (center) flanked by Richard, son, and Heather (youngest daughter)

After the wedding...Charles, Phyllis and Becky (Charles' younger sister)

.....this is the second 'ZOOM' wedding we've attended in recent weeks, and I've lost track of all the weddings we've attended over the years, but this one was like out of a fairy tale.  You have a couple that had been divorced for 40 years, and somehow found their way back to each other four or five years ago, falling in love for the second time.  Christina read from 1st Corinthians 13 about what love is, and how without it you are nothing.  I don't think there was a dry eye in the audience.

The post wedding dinner was held on their patio, and was delicious.  After dinner the wedding the amazing carrot cake was cut, and champagne was poured followed by many words of congratulation.  By 5:30 pm it was down to Charles, Phyllis, TLE and I, so we headed out to the fire pit for a celebratory sunset fire.....

....it was a day 45 years in the making, and well worth the wait.  Congratulations to Charles and Phyllis!

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