Umstead Wedding/Cindy and Ed!

We played a really great wedding at the Umstead in NC. The bride and groom had a church wedding. I sang in the church with no mic...it was beautiful...We proceeded to the Umstead (an awesome and very new hotel/spa that I highly recommend). The flowers were beautiful, Missy McLamb http://www.missymclamb.com was the photographer . Cindy went all out...she had the florist create these amazing topiaries of her dogs...she had 3 cakes, a gigantic ice sculpture with purple/pink lighting and amazing food....the guests were from all over the world...the countries represented were Nigeria, Ethiopia, London, Germany to name a few. I performed with my 13 piece band. We played primarily a range of music and worked into overtime. The Umstead finished the evening passing out home made apple cider while the bride and groom took off in their horse drawn carriage...Cindy put on a white fur shawl over her Vera Wang wedding dress.....she also had a blue grass rehearsal dinner at the Angus Barn ( a local vintage steak house) the night before. During the wedding Missy McLamb put up an awesome montage of the dinner the night before...at the wedding...Missy had a video confessional set up for guests to come in (ala MTV) and talk about the bride and groom. The couple had it set up so they guests would be recorded from the minute they entered the booth in case they said anything funny gearing up to their so called TAPED piece....the next day Missy showed the video during the brunch..super cool!!!!!!