“He’s my best friend”, said the bride. Perhaps their official love story started in high school, but it surely blossomed in the years that followed. “I didn’t put my phone down for a year.” said Audrey about the year Tom, an Army Medic spent in Afghanistan. “Just in case he could send a message or facebook for a minute”.

The wedding ceremony was celebrated in Hartland, Michigan on Sunday, July 1^st. The bride and groom exchanged vows which they wrote for one another. The reception was an intimate affair held at a pub in Howell. The location was especially fitting as the couple are fans of craft brews and the groom’s family came over from England when he was just a boy. The groom’s mum designed and created the wedding cake and the menu included Yorkshire pudding and a traditional English Sunday dinner.

Yellow roses a symbol of friendship were the detail that stood out among  all of the guest tables arranged in little clusters around the pub. The couple chose to make a donation to the Wounded Warrior Project in lieu of a favor.  The charity is near to their hearts as Tom and best man/ best mate have a few stories from their own experiences of war.

Stationed in Fairbanks, the newlyweds will be on their way back to Alaska in a few days. We wish them a safe journey, much happiness and many years of love and friendship!

Were you at the wedding, did you watch this friendship blossom and grow?  Please leave a note, a message or a memory, we’ll be sure to  pass it along to the happy couple!

“Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be” Robert Browning