As mentioned previously, my friends Dylan and Verena planned their wedding for July 19th in Waimanalo, Hawaii. Dylan grew up in Hawaii, mostly in Waimanalo.

This was the first real destination wedding that I’d attended, in that everyone coming to the wedding really made a vacation of it. All the guests were in rental houses within a few blocks of each other and the wedding site. All the houses were also less than half a block from the beautiful white sand beach. It was a wonderful week.

In honor of the fact they were getting married in Hawaii, I had worked feverishly during the weeks prior to make my dress and a shirt for Craig to wear out of Hawaiian print fabric I had bought years ago and recently discovered. You can see that they both turned out just fine:

The entire ceremony was beautiful, and Verena’s dress was one of the most gorgeous wedding dresses I have ever seen, and caused her to look like a mermaid leaving the ocean to join Dylan on the beach.

Yonna and I had also made skirts for the trip through our “Cute Skirt” class at Cool Cottons. The skirts we made in class were sized all wrong so we bought more material and spent another weekend working on new skirts. During our second attempt we decided to make a third skirt for Monica both because we figured she’d enjoy a skirt at the beach, and because we found that there were three variations of the same pattern available. We had to guess on the size for Monica’s, but luckily this time around all the skirts fit.

We all wore our skirts the day we drove to the north shore and stopped at Giovanni’s Shrimp Truck in Kahuku for lunch. Unfortunately, I only have two pictures of the three of us in our skirts and in both the skirts look fine, but the three of us all look a little funny.

It was a wonderful week. I met a lot of great people, ate shave ice, spent time on the beach, kayaked through the tradewinds and got to spend a full week with a six to seven week old darling, Clementine.

It has been more than a month since I got home from this trip, but now at long last I posted a bit about it.