Another concept also ran through
the wedding, that of family and friends.
“People that love you will really help
you,” Michelle says, and so it was that
a sister’s father-in-law, Rev. Rick
Ballif, officiated, and her godfather
acted as emcee, “telling jokes and
keeping everything running smoothly.”
Most of all, she says, “I’m blessed by
my brother’s wife, Anna Wroble.”
It was Anna who served as wedding
coordinator. “I don’t know what I
would have done without her,” says
Michelle, “She’s totally creative and
totally crafty, and she understood the
theme.” Anna used her skills with
crafts, with a little inspiration from
Pinterest, to make all the decorations.
She even ordered the flowers and made
all the centerpieces, bouquets,
corsages, and boutonnieres. “It was
insane,” says the bride, “She’s very
talented.”
Michelle and Matthew turned to
Chris Holen and Baked Alaska
Restaurant for the food. “He was
wonderful to work with,” Michelle
says. The couple lives in Seattle, and
she hadn’t eaten at the restaurant but
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she says, the samples he prepared for
them “were so good.” She found her
wedding day to be emotional enough
that she ate little, but Michelle
remembers the great salad, the chicken,
and the piece de resistance, cold-
smoked salmon.
A family friend, Marva Hall, made
the cake. “I grew up with her
daughter,” Michelle says. “She makes
delicious cakes. She was the obvious
choice.”
On the day of the wedding,
Michelle says, “We were being ushered
from one event to the next. It’s really
from looking at the pictures that I
remember all the details, seeing how
everything looked. Bryce took such
wonderful pictures.”
One of Michelle’s sisters had been
put in charge of finding a photographer,
and she presented the couple with three
possibilities. They looked at the
websites and chose Bryce Jenkison, in
Hood River. They corresponded with
him and discovered that he was
familiar with Astoria and was used to
traveling to various locations, and they
met with him before the wedding. >>