On 18 Oct 2004 at 6:19, Nina Shishkoff wrote:

Jim and Jackie Lewis and I were proud to represent the IBC at Craig
and Anita's wedding, and it was a bonsai-studded event. The chapel
was decorated, not with flowers, but with bonsai (which Jim and I had
to lug to the reception after the ceremony!). After the wedding there
was a reception, and one room held a bonsai display that wouldn't have
been out of place at a regional bonsai convention! There were trees,
accent plants and viewing stones. The wedding guests seemed genuinely
interested, if a little bewildered. Jim went around and judged the
trees!

Purely unofficially. Strangely from this non-conifer guy, the 3
top winners were all conifers -- a medium size white pine semi-
cascade, a large ponderosa pine windswept/semi-cascade, and a
shohin juniper (not necessarily in that order). I think Craig
will post a few pics when he and Anita get back from Arizona.


After the reception, we went to Craig's house (Jim and I helped move
the trees to Craig's backyard: we didn't trust non-bonsai people to
touch them! Jim hand-carried a 40-lb pine so it wouldn't get
damaged). Of course Jim and I wanted to see Craig's famous collected
honeysuckles, which were just as amazing as he always claimed.

Oh, and the bride was radiant.

Craig seemed to hold up pretty well, too. ;-)


Nina, your society-page botanist.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Bonsaiests
are like genealogists: We know our roots!

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