A Railfan’s dream wedding. Featuring a railway theme with model and real trains.
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My cheeks are still sore from grinning from ear to ear last weekend having hosted my daughter’s wedding at our local railway heritage park. The theme was mountains and trains; real and model as chosen by my daughter. I hope you enjoy these photos and details of the trains from the wedding. It was a fun event for a railfan.
She has been a good help over the years in setting up and running model railway displays with me. Volunteering at the Railway park, driving the mini rail, working for the railway association and helping as a tour guide; including the Royal Hudson steam train trips. And from an early age has traveled with the family on various train trip vacations all over North America and loves riding the trains.
When it was time to plan her wedding we easily agreed on the local railway heritage park surrounded by mountains and views of water falls, with her selecting the mountain and railway theme. The couple enjoy the outdoors hiking local mountains, the reception dinner tables green with moss and pine cones surrounding the log candles center pieces each with a name of a hike they had done. The wedding cake was a mountain theme with trains and much more; read on.
The history slide show at the wedding featured many shots of family holidays by train and from when the kids were young we had model trains at Christmas and when she helped with displays when older.
Guests had fun with railway/train jokes through the wedding reception speeches and announcements.
A vintage car club was visiting the park on the day of the wedding and made for a great back drop for some of the family shots. The bridal party girls arrived by train for the wedding. She picked her train for the wedding; CP FP7A, and cars from the former CN service in the 60’s then used for the BC Rail Royal Hudson train, power car, 3 coaches and a PGE vintage caboose. With guests seated on the lawn next to the station our train with the girls in the caboose rolled up to the station. With views to the mountains in the background we had a great wedding. The bridal party boarded the caboose and all guests the coaches for a short train ride on park grounds, many had never been on a real train. Guests had time to ride the mini rail, tour the other exhibits and appetizers were served on the balcony: top of the roundhouse overlooking the park with great views to the mountains all around.
