In May we drove back to the Missouri for Jesse and Josh’s wedding. (She also goes by Bliss.)

She got married at Ritter Springs Park. It’s a pretty park. We went to a wedding there a few years ago. To be funny Thebes wore the same groovy shirt to this wedding that he did to the last one.

It was a lovely day for a wedding.

We hung out with Jackie and Paige. They lived with us at the commune. They were some of my favorite people there and it was wonderful to see them. Paige was 12 the last time we saw her and now she’s in college. They both looked so pretty!

They had a harp player. He was pretty good.

The groom Josh

The two mothers

The couple got a drum blessing.

Their dog Jimbay

He helped with the ceremony. Such a cutie.

Oh they look so adorable and so much in love!

Josh’s cousin has a beautiful, restored Model T from 1915. He drove the bridal party to the wedding and then drove the happy couple to the reception.

The car was stunning. He was nice and talked to us about the restoration.

A close up of the car flowers

The couple cuts the cake. It was red and pink velvet cake and delicious.

Thebes and Tom

Tom also lived with us at the commune. He still lives there. He was one of our favorite people there. He was always nice and it was great to talk to him. His laugh sounded just the same.

Me with Anne and Bert

Anne and Bert also lived at the commune, Bert is still there. Anne was there with her daughter Sylvan who is now 11. We lived at the commune when she was born. Jesse and Anne and I used to hang out together.

Bert is another great commune member. He’s very creative and we had a great conversation about art.

Jesse’s sister Molly, her mom and niece Lydia (her sister Hannah’s daughter)

Me and the lovely bride

Jesse had a lot of handmade details at the wedding and reception. A pretty bouquet:

She painted this for the wedding.

In addition to all the little handmade details of the wedding Bliss also made thank you gifts for everybody. The bags had flower seeds and birdhouses.

Pictures from the park.

This was a great spot for a wedding.

It was a lovely wedding. As soon as the bridal party drove up in the Model Ts I knew it was right to come. I cried all through the wedding-it was just so beautiful.

The reception was great. We got to hang out with old commune friends. That was so wonderful. When we left the commune we were full of anger and bitterness. But it’s been long enough that now we can look back and appreciate the good times. The commune really changed our lives. It got us out of the rat race, turned us on to alternative living and cultures and it’s even the the reason we go by Twilight and Thebes.

Petty politics and asshole drunks caused us to leave the commune. But now we were able to laugh about them. There was one guy who was a really bad alcoholic and we all had a funny story about him. There was a moment when we were sitting at a picnic table and reminiscing about old commune memories. It felt so good to be in that moment.

It was a lovely day!