My sister, Lacy got married this weekend in Florence, Kentucky. We were greeted by a friendly....er, water tower on our way to the hotel. The story behind this is interesting too! The tower used to say Florence Mall until 1974 when the Bureau of Highways informed the then mayor that the signage was in violation of the law, as there was a restriction on how tall a sign promoting a business could be. To save cash, they covered over the "M" and added a "Y'" to make Y'all!
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| Florence, Y'all!! |
We couldn't have asked for more beautiful weather as we shuffled 6 ladies off to the salon to get hair styled and makeup for the bride and mother-of-the-bride. Our 6 year old niece was exceptionally patient as she got a head full of ringlets and played her Tinkerbell Game on the ever-present Nintendo DS.
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| Top: Lacy & her Stylist Middle: Allison (me) and Elisa Bottom: Mom |
My sister, Emily, works in our shipping department and was one of the bridesmaids. Her daughter Elisa was one of the flower girls. They are patiently waiting their turns to be photographed by another family member, Natalie Kontur of NRK Photography (Natalie made this awesome folio to help us remember our Grandpa who passed in August).
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| Emily & Elisa |
My mom and Lacy both look so beautiful standing here with Jessica, the maid of honor. The sunshine and beautiful fall foliage had everyone smiling! It was even warm enough, that we didn't freeze in our sleeveless dresses!
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| Mom, Jessica, Lacy |
The wedding party is all smiles, even the flower girls, ring bearers and ushers. We found out later that the photographer took over 1,000 images throughout the day!
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| Back Row L-R: Emily, Allison, Jessica, Lacy, Mike, Ashlynn, Jeff Front Row L-R: Elisa, Kailer, Ellie, Jaden |
Congratulations to the new Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Roberts!
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| Lacy & Mike |
Let them eat cake! Everyone who tried it said it was AMAZING! Somehow, I ended up never having any. Maybe Lacy will freeze me a piece to try next time I see her?! (Pretty please?)
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| Cake-tastic! No Wrecks here! |
As Mike said yesterday morning at breakfast: Game Over! (I'm glad my sister has a great sense of humor!)
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| Game Over! |
Allison B. Kontur
6 comments:
OMG! I've passed that Florence Y'all water tower a million times. My parents live in Tennessee and it's on the way to see relatives in Ohio. Lacy looks beautiful!
It was a first for me, but I was surprised how many people knew exactly which tower I was talking about because they had seen it at some point! We had a great time!
Really weird that they had to change the water tower name kind of a one of those off the wall laws. Love the your pictures and especially love the game over shirt just a little bad humor.
It would be more fantastic if they put the "game over" on the cake : )
I just thought the water tower was some kitschy tourist thing until my sister told me the story behind it!
Haha! My sister would have FLIPPED!
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