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The reception was at the Inn at Kelly’s Ford<\/a>, which was also where Elyse’s family was staying. It’s in the country, on the far side of a one-lane bridge, with a stable and a riding ring setting up for a horse show a hundred yards away.<\/p>\n The room, like the Fredricksburg Colonial Inn, was full of Civil War decor. As a yankee I found that a little off-putting, but thinking of all the Civil War history in the area<\/a> — that link goes to SeeAmerica.org, not the National Park Service — I can understand it. Besides the big battles of Chancellorsville and Wilderness within a dozen miles, there was a small cavalry fight right at Kelly’s Ford quite close to the inn. There’s a page from an 1863 edition of the New York Times with news of that battle posted up in the main building of the inn.<\/p>\n Maybe it’s standard at places like that, but in contrast to the Civil War firearms on the walls, there was a video projector hanging on the ceiling projecting a laptop-controlled slideshow of photos of the bride and groom. They had met as park rangers at Cave of the Winds National Park in South Dakota.\n<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" – pictures to follow – The reception was at the Inn at Kelly’s Ford, which was also where Elyse’s family was staying. It’s in the country, on the far side of a one-lane bridge, with a stable and a riding ring setting up for a horse show a hundred yards away. The room, like the … <\/p>\n