Lake Erie Wedding

Good time up at Lake Erie.  My friend, Jon Myers, put on a wedding for his oldest daughter at an old winery on an island.  Ironically, the winery is now closed and now owned by the state to preserve the historic structure - but get this, they don't allow wine to be served to guests at this site. So all levels of confusion from my perspective. They had to get a special permit just to be able to serve beer at the reception.  

It was threatening weather and with an outdoor ceremony it looked doubtful at first that we would get through it unscathed.  But the rain held off until well afterwards and when we did finally get some rain, it was a gentle sprinkle that cooled things off. The reception was under a large shelter and so we were covered all the way. The ceremony went fine as did the reception.

Jon paid for a special ferry to take guests back to the mainland.  It was supposed to leave at 8pm but they said that they were leaving at 7:45pm no exceptions.  Margaret then gets on the platform of the ferry in her wedding dress so that they could not lift it and leave.  I couldn't hear what all was said but she was pointing fingers and giving them a piece of her mind.  So she is not taking crap from anyone - just like her Dad.  I hope that Austin (the groom) paid attention, she won't take much guff before she blows her top.

We used our extra day to check out a winery, Mon-Ami.  It was a happening place.  We had brunch there and got a couple of bottles of their wine.  Out back they have a large patio, bar, and stage.  They had a band playing.  We listened to a song or two and moved on.  The water was high so we did not spend much time at the beach. And I forgot my fishing gear - left it by the door of the workshop.  So we didn't spend much time at the water.  We did find another place named Cleats later that day where we sat by the water and had a few cool ones. Nice restaurant and a nice staff.  We enjoyed our time there.

We definitely plan to go there again.  We had that extra day to explore and check things out - we liked what we saw.  Lots of stuff to do and see.  It might be nice to head back up there in the fall before it gets cold and spend some time.