Sunday, June 29, 2014

The 1959 Massey Ferguson . . .


 The 1959 Massey Ferguson
Country Wedding Limo
driven by father of the bride Ólafur "Óli" Ólafsson
for bride Rannveig Rós Ólafsdóttir, with Stóri Dímon
in the background at Syðsta Mörk, Iceland on June 28, 2014, sketched on June 29, 2014
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, white Crayola crayon wax resist, on 140 lb.
Strathmore Series 500 cold press watercolor paper
NFS Gift to the parents of the bride

Wedding Photos
Rannveig Rós Ólafsdóttir and Atli Örn Hafsteinsson
 June 28, 2014, Syðsta Mörk, Iceland (farm country in the south coast)


 4:33 pm

The wedding coach awaits;
a vintage 1959 Massey Ferguson tractor
with easy chairs on the wooden trailer.


 4:35 pm

Father of the bride, Ólafur Ólafsson,
escorts his oldest daughter, Rannveig Rós,
to the wedding coach outside the family farm
for her ride up the lane to the summer house.


 4:50 pm

The wedding ceremony on the deck,
the bride, Rannveig Rós, with her father, Óli, on the left
and the groom, Atli Örn Hafsteinsson, with his father,
Hafsteinn Gunnarsson, on the right, and with
almost a hundred guests in attendance, relatives
from as far west as Minnesota, US,
as far south as Aruba, as far east as Holland,
and as far north as Akureyri, Iceland.



 
5:08 pm
Now married, they are joined by their children,
Egill Atlason and Þórdís Atladóttir, on the wedding coach
for a ride to the glacial stream for photographs.


5:24 pm
The guests wait with rice and song
at the no longer used barn for the bride and groom,
enjoying each other's company.


 6:33 pm

The champagne toast to the happy couple,
farm fields with fresh bailed hay
and the ocean in the distance.


7:27 pm

The hay barn, transformed to elegance,
for the wedding banquet followed by
speeches, presentations, toasts,
and silverware clinking of the
glasses, kiss, kiss, oh, and dancing.


 2:55 am

The happy bride on the barn's deck
with her parents, Jakobína "Bína" Vilhelmsdóttir
and Ólafur, "Óli" Ólafsson, my dear friends
for the past twenty-one years.


 2:59 am

Bína and Óli walking granddaughter Þórdís
back to the summerhouse to go to bed,
the landmark hill, Stóri Dímon,
in the background.
Óli begins and end his wedding day giving rides.

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