Farmers Daughters Wedding

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I want so bad to do a trip report but it is in my busy season so I might do it
in pieces.This was a whole week of a wedding with 100 plus people
For my wife and I it was a wedding year!
If you check the pic you can see Rob and Lisa in the back
also Niah and Nicole on the far right blessed us with their presence
The owners of Chrystal Waters and Rayon Hotel both our homes away from home
for 2 plus months in the winter
And my farm crew made a big effort to come with their significant others.
Cherela did a fantastic job their help was over the top so big ups to them
Farmer

What a wonderful photo!!!!

It was an absolutely beautiful wedding...your friends & family are very special!
Thank you for allowing us to be part of this very memorable day!!
Lisa & Rob

Great photo! I think we need a "like" button on this forum... ;)

Beautiful! Looking forward to seeing more wedding photos when you get the time! Love beach weddings!

nice............

The wedding was on friday and 25 of us flew down the Sat before to start the "wedding week"
We had the direct flight from Boston on Jet Blue and we paid the $30 xtra for the front 6 rows
so we could get my wifes father off the plane quicker.I went to get my rent a car while wifey loaded everybody on
Roys buses.
Once settled @ cherela everybody was hungry and they all looked at the wife & I for guidance.
As you know that in Jamaica 25 people at a resteraunt will turn into a long wait!I looked at wifey
and said this is only 25 peeps wait till the week goes on there will be more!Going to be a long week
We thought where can we bring this many people.So we called our friend Nester whose family runs Ciao.
Sure with that many peeps he would drive us both ways just tip the taxi.
We had a wonderful meal and everybody raved about the meal
We have never had a bad meal there always good!
Sunday another wave of people came in ,.My wife had welcome bags for everybody full of little
gifts and a sheet of paper with info on eating and moving around Negril so the next night everybody was on their own.
The one thing my wife put me in charge of was the music.As of that Monday I had yet to get solid conformation on who
was playing.I have got to know a retired rock star who keeps a low profile but hangs the same place we do on the beach.
He has been coming down since the 70's and had great music connections in Negril.He said I will call Bassie.
Bassie plays in many reggae bands Alfreds,Roots and all the venues he has been the base player everybody uses.
Bassie told me he will be in Kingston rehearsing for a reggae show in Barbados that he is leaving for on Sat morning.
He would love to play and would set up a band that would work.We had seen a singer @ a show over the winter
and we really wanted her to sing so Bassie said he wiill talk to her but he also has good sigers that he could get.
The next day he said she wants too much money and he has another lady who would do a great job.My wife was really set
on that singer and wasn't happy.Bassie said check out a singer tonight down at Beaches Sandy Bay they are having
a night to thank all their workers and give good worker awards out,There was a band Bassie put together with a singer
The audiance was quiet and the singer sang all american music during the night.Wifey was not happy as this was not what she expected
We wanted reggae dancing music!Bassie assured us this was a Jamaican audience that would rather american music so don't worry
we cxan put on a show for you.We met with Bassie the next morning sitting around Cherela having coffee.We talked about the dances
and music.I wanted a Eric Clapton song for the father daughter dance and told Bassie we would have an IPod there to do some of the songs.
Bassie said oh you mean this song and sang the first few lines of Wonderfull Tonight.My daughter ,son in law,and wife all looked at me and said thats
perfect.So we went along with the singer we saw and Bassie said I will also bring the singer Swallow.Swallow plays alot of the venues around Negril
and was very well known so I said yeah lets do it.
Got to get to work ,strawberry picking time.
Farmer
ps Rob and Lisa are looking younger every time I see them.These two are a class act!

Farmer and Likkle Farmer CONGRATS!

All the Best,

VVHT

On Tuesday we were up to 61 people arriving.I spent most of the time running friends and family to Hi Lo for cash and groceries.
My wife and daughter needed a day @ the hairstylist to test hairstyles.So we went to Negril Escape where Queen Bee does her styling.She mixed up the time we were to be there so we had an hour to kill.It was 10 in the morning and Dennis was just opening Whoopies for the day ,So a rum and fresh squeezed OJ tasted pretty good!After the second one I was feeling good so off to Queen Bees.I dopped the girls off and went to Canoe for an attitude adjustment and chatted with Kirby.
Back at the beach our crowd was getting bigger.We took over one side of Cherelas beach keeping Sandra and partners busy with messages.
That night was our 1st organized event.We arranged with Margaritaville to have a survivor night ,2hours of drinking and a full buffet.Lots of fun.Most people had never been to Jamaica so we organized things to do for the rest of the trip.
Thanks for the comments I have more photos coming

The smiles The beach So perfect.

Lovely...

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday night we organized a trip to Ricks as most people had seen this when learning about Negril on the net.4 buses brought 74 of us up to
Ricks. Many jumped off the cliffs and alot of drinking and dancing to the reggae bands.
Thursday we organized a sand sculpture contet.Prizes were for most obscene,most Jamaican,and best wedding theme.Prizes were a bottle of Appleton.banana boat ride for team,and jetski rides for team.
Thanks to Robin the jetski king for working with me on prizes!
Thursday eve was rehersal dinner.The grooms parents arranged with Kuyaba a dinner for 49 .There was a mento band and we had a ball.Kuyaba did a real nice job with this big group!
On the wedding day I seemed to run around everywhere for preps and keeping the wife happy.I bought pizzas for the ladies and 5 more pizzas
for the groomsman so they had something to suck up the stripes.Chances has nice pizza and for me was a great bar to wait and get my attitude adjustment in.

Thursday I still had not confirmed the steel drum player and the wedding is tommorrow!
Over the winter we met Pebo and Rohan,beach musicians and also Pebo plays with Greenie @
Canoes Thursday Web cast.I like Pebes sound of his steel drum ,high pitched,and the tone
that would be good for walking down the aisle.I suggested Pimpers Paridise for a song to walk down the
aisle.My daughter being a kindergarden teacher looked @ me and said no way until she heard the tune
without the words and she loved it!
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I also needed cocktail hour music ,I had Sugars phone # from hanging out in Roaring River
over the winter.Sugar is a drummer whom plays in various drummer bands.So he played background
music during horderves and cocktails

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Wonderful!

farmer that is picture perfect :)

Great photo with mom and dad on the beach. Love the suit and sandals!

You & Marie look pretty spiffy!!!!! what a gorgeous wedding. Congratulations & see you in January!!!!!

Helene & JP

Thanks for the comments,Helene and JP I am so glad you saw this see you in January!
Likkle farmer and I saved a bottle of Cristal champagne that was given to us a year prior so we opened it before we walked down the aisle

The bead sandals were made by a beach vendor

As we were coming down the aisle Niah steps in front of me and said "FARMAH BLESS FARMAH"

So pretty!

that photo of you,the bride and... your much younger...sister? is awsome i cracked up!nice suit,look down sandals:D i love it,awsome

All of these pictures are so beautiful!!
Congratulations!!
I was hoping to see pictures from the wedding, Thank you so much for sharing them w/ all of us!:)

Wow, just great! What a gift to your lovely daughter. Looks like the wedding went well. How beautiful. Nice job Dad.

Wow love the pic!! Gives me a great idea for my wedding in Janauary at the Farm!!! Congrat's Bless Debbie D.

Amazing wedding! I love the bead sandals and hope I get a pair while I'm down there :)

What a beautiful wedding. So many guests. Wonderful.

Those are incredible pics...looked like an amazing ceremony. Many blessings to the bride and groom and family.

During pictures which always take a long time we had hor derves and cocktails brought down to the wedding party
chicken and veggie minis patties and conch fritters were to die for and of course as we had a 5 hour open bar we
had cocktails as well.The african drumming in the background was perfect!
When we finished pictures we headed up with the rest of the party.I was surprised to see the singer that we wanted
dressed to the nines.I thought wait a minute Bassie didn't tell me they worked out a deal and I saw the other female singer
already getting set on stage.Bassie shrugged his shoulders and told me they hadn't made a deal and sent her home.I was
bummed but told myself to worry about it later.
Dinner was served and we all got down to a good time!

When it came to the father daughter dance Bassie started singing the song(he normally dosn't sing)
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The dancing got going and Swallow did not disappoint

The Ultimate Wedding Planner and A Super Dad - who could ask for more........ looks like you guys pulled an amazing wedding together and with so many guests - it's hard to imagine. Looking forward to more pictures and the aftermath stories.

beautiful.....

After things got going my wife had brought down 120 lighted glasses'the waitresses were wearing them as well
My father in law posing

At 10 we had the permit to light off sky lanterns .There were 110 of these.My daughter wanted these for the wedding but we told her we couldn't bring them because of airline regulation.So when we brought them out they freaked!Attachment 15766Attachment 15767Attachment 15768Attachment 15769Attachment 15770

what a sight the guests were fascinated

Beautiful love the lanterns, where did your wife purchase the lighted glasses?