Kirk Petersen

For those of you not on Facebook, the following gallery of images from our Montana trip should be viewable:

• http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=129901&id=690185833&l=29a3cb5f47

Our wedding was a week ago. August 1st. That should be easy to remember.

We whispered our vows to each other during the ceremony because we are both too shy to say them in front of a group. I joked that we’d post them on our blogs later. Not sure I’m ready to do that. I barely even remember saying them.

The gist of my vows was what an amazing woman Shanti is and how lucky I am to get to spend the rest of my life with her. She’s so beautiful and smart and yet also so tough and adventurous and resourceful. There doesn’t seem to be anything that she can’t do if she sets her mind to it. I was certain that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with Shanti shortly after meeting her.

I couldn’t imagine a better wedding for us. The setting was beautiful and the ceremony was very natural. I never once felt like we were doing something just because we should. We simply spent the weekend doing things we love.

Our friends and family are what really made the wedding work. Thank you Joe for officiating the ceremony. Thank you Nathan and Brian for taking such amazing photographs. Thank you Becky for the beautiful cake. Thank you Andrew and Abby for preparing the food. Thank you Jen, Jennifer, Mom, Carol, Wyatt, and Stacey for the nice words during the ceremony. And thank you to everyone for helping out and putting up with the long drive and the hot weather!

The Georgetown Ballroom is our first choice for the wedding reception/party venue. I stopped in recently when SANCA had an event there. Very nice space. It would definitely be big enough even if we invited everyone we knew. And the location might allow for interesting possibilities of meeting up early, splitting up into groups to go get food (I’m thinking we’ll just do appetizers/snacks), and then coming back to drink. The only questions are availability and price.