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- Our room service meal when we finally got to the Hyatt Incheon at the airport, after searching around the Seoul version of Marrickville looking for it.
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- This is where Husband, the Sprogs and I lived in New York, Butler Hall!
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- Reminiscing on the steps of Columbia University, where Husband spent 10 months studying.
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- Grand Central Station lives up to its name. No oysters for us in the Oyster Bar this trip, but worth a visit!
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- Dinner at Pastis in the Meatpacking District, before they banned our camera.
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- Walking the High Line at night was magical. It’s an old freight train line built up high that has been turned into a walkway with gardens and cafes.
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- There are heaps of timber loungers along the High Line where you can relax and enjoy the view. (Including pervy, bonus peeks into people’s apartments.)
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- One of the new World Trade Centre buildings reaches for the sky
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- Our first meal in Charleston, yummy jambalaya at Virginia’s.
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- The scene of the wedding rehearsal dinner, a fisherman’s wharf called Crosby’s Dock.
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- Drinks afterwards at The Royal American, which was more raucous than royal.
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- First delight of the wedding, a refreshments table with alcohol lemonade and potato chips.
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- Ah, Bourbonade and crawtators … heaven!
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- The view.
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- Donnie and Kyle walk to the ceremony. Donnie looks very relaxed about popping his marriage celebrant cherry.
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- The father of the bride walks his daughter to the ceremony.
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- The ceremony, under a gorgeous old tree.
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- A jazz band serenaded the couple after the ceremony as they walked to the reception.
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- The “photo booth” at the wedding was an old gilt frame hung from a tree.
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- An old-fashioned typewriter was set up so guests could type notes to the happy couple.
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- Appetizers included pimento cheese dip with pork scratchings, okra and spicy sausage on bikkies and smoked chicken on scones.
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- The spicy sausage nibbles.
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- The dip.
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- There was a wine bar …
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- And a bourbon bar!
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- Kyle and Abi do the bridal waltz.
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- More waltzing.
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- My dinner: rubbed chicken, collard greens and macaroni cheese.
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- Photographs of the bride and groom’s parents on their wedding days adorned the dessert table.
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- Nom, nom, dessert … banana cream pie not pictured.
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- Red velvet cake!
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- These are the “Badgers” – Husband’s buddies from Columbia University. They all did The Knight Badgehot Fellowship together.
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- The Southern tradition is to light an avenue of sparklers for the bride and groom to walk down at the end of the night.
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- Boone Hall Plantation house. OK, so it was built in the 1930s but that didn’t stop North & South filming there, or Blake Lively choosing it as her wedding venue.
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- This handsome fellow was lying beside the road during our tour of Boone Hall Plantation. Makes bitching about bush turkeys invading the backyard a bit superfluous.
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- The driveway to Boone Hall, lined with trees that were up to 800 years old.
Husband came through with the goods – downloading the pics from our camera involves inserting a disc into the printer or something, kinda like changing a tyre, I’m resolving not to learn how to do it – so here are some highlights from our trip. Click on one image and it will become a full-sized gallery for you to see. Hope you like ’em. I have to go and retrieve my car now – went for a drink last night and was smashed by jetlag AGAIN, so I left it behind and caught a cab home. Hurrah!
