A beautiful wedding on Lookout Mountain includes old Colorado traditions.
Crystal Rose on Lookout Mountain was a lovely setting for Paige and Gareth's summer wedding. They found each other all the way from Ireland and Chicago to unite there in a lovely outside ceremony. The guests from all around the world enjoyed the old Colorado tradition of the promise from the congregation to the couple. This tradition started in Gilpin County (where Rev. Whitman resides) all the way back in the gold rush days of 1859. Crystal Rose doesn't allow the traditional final admonition from the minister to be fulfilled: “You may shoot your guns!” That got a laugh. Every other part of that old ceremony was greeted with joyful response from the gathered well wishers.
By the way, the couple's two kitties were specially mentioned by Dr. Whitman during the ceremony. The ceremony was somewhat traditional with the old reading from Corinthians in the Bible being used “For love is patient and kind, not jealous or bragging. Love takes not account of the wrongs, and holds no grievances. Love endures all things, believes all things, hopes all things...Now dear ones abide with us faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is love!”