Heritage Park

Guests gather in front of Prince House

We got a preview of Heritage Park on our tour of the city. The wedding venue wasn't immediately visible so I wondered how we would find our way from the entrance to the Prince House lawn, site of the wedding ceremony, and the reception Gunn's Dairy Barn.

Traffic was quite heavy in mid-afternoon so we decided to leave a little earlier than originally planned. We took a cab to Heritage Park from the hotel with sister Marilyn and son Chris, and immediately saw a wedding party on the lawn. Not ours.

Soon after we got out of the cab, we saw people from our party on the grounds. Marilyn already knew some of them, from the wedding rehearsal the evening before. We were ushered onto a shuttle bus for the trip over dirt roads to the area around Prince House. My bag included an extra pair of footwear (lesson learned from the last wedding), so it was inconveniently heavy but manageable. I was happy to be walking comfortably in my platforms, my first pair of high shoes in many decades.

It was fun to visit with guests before the wedding. The weather was stunningly beautiful: no sign of the frequent showers that had surprised us the day before. Time for the festivities to begin!