I attended an indoor wedding in May, with part of the event outside church and the champagne reception and coffee in a courtyard, with the dinner, thankfully, inside. Never saw flower children in down jackets before or since, but for strewing flowers in the couples path as they left church, the parents had to put them in them over the cute flimsy dresses so they’d survive the event.
While receiving the guests in the courtyard, the bride had blue arms (no down jacket). She never noticed until someone forced a wrap on her. Take as many layers you need!
Back from the wedding. It was unseasonably hot…temps never got below 70, maybe higher. I never needed my sweaters, fleece throw, or anything else. But I was glad I had them…just in case. Large black Longchamps bag held it all!
We have another ceremony tomorrow morning. Hoping that is as nice as today.
@thumper1, you are usually fairly cautious person and a planner…You could have just checked the weather a week ahead and you would have known about expected temperatures. I do find weather info to be quite accurate nowadays. Maybe not the prediction of precipitation, but they are usually pretty good with the temperature.
Call me superstitious, but had she not come prepared it very well could have been one of those times the weather man gets it all wrong! That happens too often, especially with precipitation. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best! Glad it all worked out! I hope the second wedding was as nice as the first.
I’m going to disagree with the accurate weather forecast.
I believe that forecasts are very accurate in most places.
But at the top of a mountain, all bets are off. The weather could be the same as the bottom of the mountain. It could be 10 degrees cooler, it could be windy and feel much cooler.
I used to believe in weather forecasts. Then I moved closer to Lake Michigan, it can be raining in town but not at my house. Even thought the radar says no rain in the area. It can be 10 degrees cooler or warmer. I will drive across town and the temperature can fluctuate quite a bit. I used to live somewhere and it would say that it’s going to rain at 10 and stop at 12, here that’s actually rarely the case.
I played team tennis years ago and we’d have to call each other for a weather report sometimes for that specific reason. It could be pouring rain at my house and clear as a bell just a couple miles away.
Now I have My Radar app which is satellite imaging. Very accurate.
Yea, mountain top weather (sometimes a wedding venue here in CO, but darn never with us on the invite list) can be hard to predict. In ski season spring skiing, you can be fighting hard pack at the top - locals call it ice, but I explain to him that back east ice is blue). Then at the bottom tough slushy conditions.
That happens too often, especially with precipitation. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best! Glad it all worked out! I hope the second wedding was as nice as the first.