Wedding Weekend, Memphis Style

This weekend, we ventured to Memphis to see my cousin Tim get married. With such a large family, it's always fun when the Tieman family converges for a family occasion. We took a LOT of photos chronicling the occasion. So, here's a look at our weekend!

Friday Night at The Tiemans

As soon as we arrived in Memphis on Friday, we headed to Uncle Terry and Aunt Becky's (Tim's parents) house to hang out. We asked Tim to play his guitar for us. Somehow, Mom became a part of his band.

Even though she had NO idea what she was doing, she had a fun time pretending that she did!

To continue the randomness, we even decided to test out the weight machine. Paula proves that she really could beat us all up.

Jenna hanging out with our Illinois cousins, Jon and Andrew.

Saturday Fun

While our younger cousins decided to do some educational things (i.e. zoo, Mud Island), we chose to let out the inner child in us and go to a Go-Kart/arcade place near our hotel. It was fun times! Here's us before our big Go-Kart race.

Erin's ready to go!

Paula and Mom are strapped in. Paula got the slow cart that time. Sorry, Paula! And, Jenna ran her into the wall. It was not a good race for Paula.

Yay, tickets!!! Even though we are all adults, there is still something very fun about winning tickets while playing arcade games. Admittedly, it was kind of sad - all of the little kids in the place were jealous of all of our tickets.

To make the experience even better, we got the deal of the century! For $7, we got two Go-Kart rides, a card for $7.50 worth of arcade games and a free popcorn and pop! There's nothing like some good, cheap fun!

The Wedding

Before the wedding got started, we took the opportunity to take pictures of everyone all dolled up. Of course, here's us.

We ALWAYS have to have a sister pic. Don't we look cute?

Here's a bunch of the cousins - believe it or not, this isn't even everyone! I'm the oldest of 17 grandkids on my dad's side of the family.

I don't know about you, but I think cousin Andrew might just be Mr. GQ in the making!

The happy couple - Tim and Andrea Tieman!

The Reception

What a pretty (and yummy) cake!

There was a LOT of dancing going on at this wedding. Here's Jeremy and Paula.

Jenna dances with Cousin Jon, while Mom dances with Garth.

Dancing Queens!

Paula and Cousin Teresa were tearing it up on the dance floor.

I had NO idea Paula had such moves!


Perhaps the funniest part of the whole evening was watching Paula's dance routines. This is one she made up with a friend of hers. She calls it "the pizza." I laughed so hard my stomach hurt! Watch the video and you'll see why. :)

Remember all of those tickets we won? Well, we decided it was only appropriate to use them to get some gifts for the bride and groom. Who wouldn't want a blow-up guitar and light saber?!?

Aunt Becky and Garth try to be cool. I'm not quite sure if it worked....

Here are my grandparents at the reception.

The Morning After

On Sunday, we all went to church to celebrate Uncle Terry's 25 years in the ministry. Unfortunately, we had a tough time finding the church.

Caption #1: Searching for Jesus.

Caption #2: Real men don't ask for directions.

This is Jeremy and Uncle Doug on the side of the road. It was pretty funny looking at our caravan of four vehicles on the side of the road. We were definitely lost!

Luckily, we made it in time for the service. This is Uncle Terry receiving his award. Congratulations, Uncle Terry!

All in all, we had a great weekend. I took a LOT more pictures. If you would like to see the rest, you can click here.