Thank You!

The Serven Clan. Photo December 2008.

In thinking back over the crazy whir of wedding preparations, the wedding itself, and the subsequent days, we've been contemplating the many, many blessings the Lord gave to us through our kind, kind friends.

We felt so incredibly loved.

Sure, there is the excitement of the wedding, but all us here at home have felt so supported, blessed, and honored by your care for the Serven Clan.

There is no way we can recount all the ways that you blessed us by your service. We are so honored by your graciousness to us.

• Sweet e-mails, notes, letters, phone-calls.
• Prayers.
• Bringing meals, cooking at our home, cooking for the rehearsal dinner, cooking for the wedding reception.
• Stuffing envelopes, stamping, folding, tying ribbons.
• Cutting fabric, ripping seams, sewing buttons, listening to a ranting seamstress. : ) [You know who you are!]
• Answering e-mails at 2 in the morning.
• Hugs, back-rubs, drying tears, listening.
• Set-up, tear-down, taking days off work.
• Lighting candles, stringing lights, washing jars.
• Testing batteries.
• Making a big box of a room into something exquisitely beautiful.
• Washing mountains of dishes.
• Landscaping, driving a tractor, digging ditches, planting flowers.
• Taking pictures and capturing the emotions of the event.
• Staying up half the night touching up the pictures so they are ready to post at 6 in the morning.
• Sending photos of ideas on how to do wedding hair.
• Waiting tables, serving drinks.
  
• Capturing the event on video, camera, and then sharing on your blog.
  
• Traveling 7 hours to dry-wall Jon and Beth's house.
• Renting tables and chairs, returning them after the wedding so we didn't have to even think about it.
• Opening your home to host out of town guests, some of which you didn't even know were staying with you till the next morning when they came to breakfast!
  
• Following diagrams, organizing work teams, leading, managing, coordinating.
• Being personal assistants to the Mother of the Bride.
• Encouraging us along as we got in the wedding-planning Slough of Despond.
  
• Helping with websites, organizing dances, running sound, running a live-stream.
• Purchasing gifts to bless Jon and Beth.
• Arranging flowers, baking cakes.
• Traveling countless hours by plane and car to be at the wedding and make it special with your presence.
  
• Wrapping silverware, counting silverware, sticking knives back into the silverware thing-ys.
  
• Doing hair, doing make-up, doing special girl things.
• Running errands, researching things, making decisions so we didn't have to.
  
• Practicing, practicing, practicing, then performing and making the environment so festive and beautiful.
• Chopping Potatoes and Carrots.
• Purchasing Fireworks.
• Purchasing Pepsi and things to decorate the get-away car.
• Sharing your wisdom, thoughts, and prayers at numerous events.
  
• Organizing, hosting, attending bridal showers and events.
• Eating soup for a whole week, when you don't like it, and not complaining once.
• Cleaning bathrooms, vacuuming, dusting.
• Cleaning out our refrigerator, cleaning out our dishwasher.
  
• Singing goofy songs when we were on the verge of tears.
• Answering questions and e-mails right away so we didn't have to worry about things.
• Offering to help.
• Telling us that you want to be there for us.
• Being there for us when we needed you.

Thank you for your sacrifice of love. We are blessed by the Lord to have you as friends. Thank you for letting the Lord love us through you.

With much love in Christ,
The Serven Clan