Lynn posted on July 18, 2010 18:25
On Saturday July 17th I went to the wedding of two good friends, Paul Job and Joy Rudisill, in Hickory, NC. Most of you know Paul and Joy. Paul plays almost all of the NC tournaments, and Joy has always accompanied him. Joy has also come to the rescue and helped me out on many tournaments with hospitality and any other things that needed to be done. She has just recently started playing tournaments on a regular basis herself, and it's great that we have another woman getting involved with our sport. With racquetball such an important part of their life, of course they had to incorporate some racquetball into the wedding and reception. As you can see in the photos, as Paul and Joy and the wedding party left the church, many of their fellow players held their racquets in a high arch for the party to exit under. We also did the same as they entered the reception. In the other photos you can see the two
racquetball cakes. The main cake was made of two edible racquets (except the string) sitting on top of a racquetball court and supported by racquetballs all around. Joy constructed the court, and plans to bring it around to tournaments in the next year for everyone to see. The detail is really amazing. The other cake was a racquetball court. As you can see there are quite a few balls supporting the outside edges of the main cake. Everyone was given a ticket and wrote their guess as to how many balls were used in the construction. The prize for the winner was an 18k gold racquetball charm. As luck would have it, two people tied with their guess of the exact number of balls (187). So the tiebreaker was a dance-off between the two, Eric New, who is VP of the NCRA, and another wedding guest. The dance-off was one of the highlights of the evening and was enjoyed by all. The other guest edged Eric out by a small margin, but it was a lot of fun for both of them as you can see in the photos. With a catered bar-b-que dinner and cash bar, the evening was very enjoyable. We wish the best to the happy couple, and know we'll be seeing them both on the court soon. For all the photos of the wedding you can go to the photo gallery or click the link on the front page.