Dream Wedding

"We were just going to go down to the justice of the peace," our friend told us last night, "but the kids convinced us to, well..." she swept her hand toward the yard, indicating the tent with 10 eight-top tables, the converted carport bar, the 12-foot fire ring, the enormous fallen tree whose weathered roots make the backdrop for the vows.

Her 15-year-old daughter and her friend, the bridesmaids, along with Pinterest, were the creative forces behind the event. And what a crazy-quilt spectacle of a day it promises to be! Cotton candy, soft serve ice cream, tea and lemonade slushies, corn hole, horseshoes, and knife and axe-throwing are all options, along with ATV riding on the trails, a fully stocked, split-log-wagon wheel bar, a DJ named Giggles, and s'mores around the huge bonfire in the evening.

I can't wait!