Marla and Geoff...wedding on the beach!!

Our son, Geoff, and his bride, Marla, got married in St John in the Virgin Islands on April 6th.
The wedding was actually at Trunk Bay, noted as the most scenic beach in the VI. We all enjoyed a special dinner together the day before at the resorts Turtle Bay dining room.
We had sailed in a few days before and took a National Park mooring in Caneel Bay just at the entrance to the resort. Marla's parents, Mary and Sammy Anyomi, flew in from Columbia, SC. We all enjoyed a stay at Caneel Bay Resort. Some of us got to take a few snorkling trips to check out the water. Mary came for a sail on the boat with us while Geoff and Marla went into a nearby town, Cruz Bay to get her hair done and Sammy relaxed at the resort.


Caneel Bay Resort
Their room view
Snappy groom
Marla, before!
Back of gown

Family in sugar
mill ruins
Wedding couple
at ruins
Wedding couple
close up!
Couple on steps
before leaving

We took photos of the couple in the ruins of an old sugar plantation and mill on the resort grounds [where we had the special wedding dinner afterwards]. Then we all journeyed to Trunk Bay beach. for the service. The wedding couple traveled by limo with the parents following in a taxi behind them. The wedding planners brought the limo, flowers and the minister and took us to the location on the beach. The minister performed a lovely service and the couple looked beautiful in the beach scenery with a few clouds forming.


Marla with her bouquet
Showing the
whole beach view
Newlyweds
After the service
Leaving the beach

Family on beach,
after wedding
The limo to dinner
Shower at dinner
Toasting with champagne

After more photos on the beach, we returned to the resort where Marla's parents hosted the lovely, private wedding dinner in the ruins until just before the main course when a brief shower drove us inside to another dining room.
The next day, after a nice breakfast with family, the bride and groom left on the resort ferry to return to LA. The next thursday they flew to Norway and Iceland for their honeymoon and quite a change of scenery!!!

NOTE: that red thing in the 2 middle photos above is a small "beanie-baby" lobster we sent Marla from Maine and they take it everywhere and make photos of it as they travel...just something cute to do.


Couple leaves on ferry
Ferry leaves for St Thomas airport

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