Month: August 2016

Saint Chappelle

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We visited Saint Chappelle near Notre Dame on Wednesday.  It’s much smaller than Notre Dame but unlike any other church I have seen before.  Its stained glass windows seem to take up most of the building.  The first floor is beautiful and then you climb a spiral staircase to an incredible upper floor which is much much taller and takes your breath away.

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a wedding – Curtis & Christina.

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last week we were invited to a friend’s wedding.  It was a fantastic day – the bride and groom’s families were both long standing members of the church I go to and so many of the guests knew most of the people there.  It was a day when Brian the minister spoke about the power of love in this crazy, mixed up world.

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One of the ushers walking his mother (also mother of the bride) up the aisle to her seat – it is blurred with the movement but catches the mood of the occasion.

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and a few buttonholes…

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and finally father and daughter in front of the paparazzi.