A Story Land Wedding

[mrceagle]

On May 19th 2007 my brother Kevin and my now sister in Law Anne were married. Anne wanted a medieval or a Fairy tail weeding. In time they opted to have the wedding at the Castle at Story Land.

 

For the weeding we stayed at the Eagle Mountain House, just up the Road from Jackson Falls in Jackson, NH. The hotel is one of the remaining Grand hotels in NH.

 

To give you some background on them I should tell a short story about how they meet. Kevin and Anne meet while working at Canobie Lake Park. Kevin worked games and Anne worked rides, mostly kiddie land. They had lost track of each other for a while but opening day of Canobie in 2005 changed all that. My brother and I were standing in line for the Cannonball. It was the last ride of the night, when my brother was taped on the shoulder and that person said “don’t I know you?” Kevin turned around and there was Annie. Things snowballed from there.

 

On July 18th 2006 Kevin proposed to Anne. Being park and coaster fans it happened in a park. Kevin Brought Anne to Lake Compounce. The proposal was done outside the gates in front of the flower garden. Jerry Brick was nice enough to video tape the Proposal.

 

So time brought use back to the weeding and to Story Land. My brother and I arrived at the park early to get things rolling. Bob the Group Sales Manager meet us at the Employee gate by the castle. We walked past the tea cups and down to the Pumpkin Coach’s lower loop. Much to my surprise, we were going to be able to use the parks brand new Pumpkin coach.

 

The new Coach looks great. It’s larger then the old one. That means it not only holds more people but it is more comfortable allowing an adult to sit up straight. The very natural looking Pumpkin on a metal great platform looks great. The engine now is an environmentally friendly eclectic engine.

 

 

They brought the entire wedding party up in the pumpkin coach, which was a nice extra touch we weren’t expecting to have. They even allowed us to move the thrown from the stage so the minister could stand it its spot. The ceremony was nice. I forgot to mention it didn’t rain up there Saturday. So it was cool and comfortable.

 

 

After the ceremony they did only 2 rides down on the pumpkin coach one with the Bride Groom and Wedding party. The second was the grandparents and a couple that didn’t need to be walking down the hill. They allowed us to get pictures by the Story Land Queen and on the Carousel.

 

 

We left the same way we went in. I was very happy to be able to return the Thrown to its rightful spot, Turn off the Sound system in the castle and surrounding area, and Close the Castle doors. A big Thrill for me!

 

There was a Photo session at Jackson falls before we made our way the Eagle Mountain house’s carriage house for the reception. In all the weather cooperated making for a great day. Story land was very cooperative and happy to be doing the weeding. And the Eagle Mountain house was a fantastic destination by itself. A true fairy Tail story I guess.

 

 

 

 

[robbalvey]

Is it just me or are these "weeding" photos not working for anyone else?

 

--Robb "It's too bad...I love gardening." Alvey

[ConleyKE]

"weeding"

 

^ Anyways, I think it might just be you Robb. I can see them just fine.

 

And congrats to your brother, mrceagle! That's a really neat/unique idea!

[mrceagle]

I fixed the Spelling so Weeding is now Wedding. The photos seem to be working fine.

 

Rob - I'll keep my eye out for Potential Gardening photo ops just for you!

[robbalvey]

Rob - I'll keep my eye out for Potential Gardening photo ops just for you!

Awesome! Much apprecaited!

 

And yeah, the photos are working for me too now!

 

--Robb

[coaster05]

Congrats to your brother mrc.

[mrceagle]

Coaster I'll pass that along.

 

rob - opening day cam allot of planting but no weeding. sorry also camera was in the shop so all I have is a few Camera phone pics from opening day.