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Nicole's bridesmaids are enjoying their friend's special moment even though the wind is making its presence known.
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Michael and Nicole cut the wedding cake.
Reception music was by Wilmington based progressive Bluegrass band L Shape Lot.

The outdoor patio makes an ideal dance floor for a reception in mild weather.
 
Whitecaps frame Nicole and her aunts Brenda Parker and Joyce Burdon as they return from inspecting the beach.
Whitecaps frame Nicole and her aunts
Brenda Parker and Joyce Burdon as
they return from inspecting the beach.
Michael, right, prepares a sign to
redirect guests from beach to house.
Rented chairs are set up in carport
under the house instead of the beach.

Nicole’s cousin Matthew Parker waits to
greet guests. Sharp gusts popped some
of the balloons decorating the house.
Nicole and her bridesmaids get ready
in a rental house across the street.
Next page: Nicole with dad, John Neuman;
Bridesmaids, violinist Jane Tierney, and
Rev. Joe Parker (Nicole’s great-uncle
from New Bern) contend with the wind.

Nicole and her bridesmaids get ready in a rental house across the street. 		 


Michael prepares a sign to redirect guests from beach to house.

Rented chairs are set up in carport under the house instead of the beach

Nicole’s cousin Matthew Parker waits to greet guests. Sharp gusts popped some of the balloons decorating the house.
 
Nicole's father, John Neuman, escorts her down the aisle.
  Wind blown, but not discouraged, violinist Jane Tierney adds her solo atop nature's blustery soundtrack.

Rev. Joe Parker, Nicole's great-uncle from New Bern, reacts as her veil creates a light moment.


   lanning for her beach wedding on a sunny spring weekend, Nicole Neuman “decided to wing it” in case of bad weather.
    “We walked down to the beach Sunday morning and decided this wasn’t going to work,” Nicole said. Despite a clear blue sky, 30-mph gusts were whipping up sand. “It was ridiculous.”
    But she had already made a backup plan – thinking more of rain than of wind – to hold the wedding in the space under one of four elevated beach houses the families had rented for the weekend.
    Nicole had met fiance Mike Hughes while both worked at the same shopping mall in New Bern. They dated through college: She at at UNC-Chapel Hill, he at NC State. (“We have trouble during basketball season,” Nicole admitted.)
    “He proposed to me at the park where we had our first date,” she said, on the riverfront in New Bern. Nicole moved to Wilmington for a graphic art job at the Star-News; Mike is an electrical engineer at Southport’s Brunswick Nuclear Plant.
    Her advice to other brides: “You have to be organized” if planning for yourself.


  
 
Nicole and Michael start the buffet line in the Halyburton Park Event Center.
      A plate of hors d'ouvres from the buffet.

  
Nicole and Michael do their first dance on the Event Center's spacious patio.
 
  Natural Setting
Halyburton Park is the City of Wilmington's nature preserve on South 17th Street.

The event center features natural wood beams, a glass wall and spacious patio that can accommodate both a ceremony and a reception.

Nicole said she looked at the building after an ad caught her eye. "It was really pretty," she said, and surprisingly inexpensive to rent.

Resources
Reception: Halyburton
   Park Event Center    Go
Photographer: Logan
   Wallace Photography    Go
Flowers: Something
   Special Florist    Go
Music: Wilmington
   Academy of Music    Go

 
Reception music was by Wilmington based progressive Bluegrass band L Shape Lot.

  The dancing went on well after dark.

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