welcome to the wedding page of kenda & michael. we hope you enjoy it and leave with a better understanding of us, what we stand for, and most importantly, what you should give us for our wedding...

Seriously though, we hope that all of you will help us celebrate the love that has brought us together and will carry us through the remainder of our lives.

Hi, it's Kenda here. I've changed the photo on our home page, because, in my mind, this piece of my artwork sums up the relationship between Michael and myself. Painted about a year into our relationship, my intent was to describe how our two, very different personalities came together to create a beautiful balance. Michael is illustrated by the basket weave, linear, regular, predictable and yet so elegant in its simplicity, sturdy and enduring and absolutely necessary to the function of daily life…. I depicted myself, on the other hand, through the convoluted shape in the center, complicated, curvy, unpredictable and shot throughout with the vivid and shifting hues that color every day life. The threads of Michael’s basket weave are laced into the depiction of myself, just as his life and mine became bound together.
However, what you see here is not the original painting. Initially painted on a regular, stretched canvas, the piece took on a new life after our first major argument. During that argument, with my usual hot-headed German/Irish temper, I wrenched the canvas from the wall and proceeded to cut it to pieces, those crazy, unpredictable “colors” of mine rearing their ugly heads! But after the dust had settled and we kissed and made up, I reworked the piece to create the one you see here. I mended the ripped canvas, literally stitching it back together. In an ode to my grandfather and his 53-year marriage to my grandmother, (a woman, as he put it, “with a lot of crazy ideas” {like me!}), I mounted the revamped piece to an old pendant board I inherited from him. I added images of the four seasons and actual woven ribbons to highlight the changing but lasting quality of our affection for each other…
Normally the work hangs in our hallway, but I took it outside to photograph and hung it from the fence that, together, Michael and I built, a further testament to our abilities to make it through challenging times!
Thanks for reading through all this and sharing in our story!