Monday, July 15, 2019

Monday, July 15, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken on July 15, 2007. How do I know? I know because I see two wine glasses on the table. Not just any wine glasses. These wine glasses belonged to my paternal grandparents. They used these glasses to toast their own wedding anniversaries over the years. What was the date of their anniversary? The same as ours.... July 15th. That day, Mattie and Peter went into his pool on our deck. After which we had lunch in which we celebrated our marriage together as a family. 


Quote of the day: The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time. ~ Julia Child

As today is our 24th wedding anniversary, I think it's appropriate to share some photos from our wedding. Keep in mind that when we got married in 1995, my parents were living in Los Angeles, Peter's parents were in Boston, and we were living in Washington, DC. We chose to have our wedding in NY. You can picture the logistics of that!!! We chose NY, because most of my relatives lived there and it was closer for Peter's family. We got married in the same church I received the sacrament of confirmation. In fact  my confirmation and our wedding had the same officiant, Monsignor Hugh McManus.

We were married in Scarsdale, NY and our wedding reception was held in Rye, NY. I thought I was going to love our photographer, given the sample photos and albums we showed up before the wedding. But in actuality, he snapped few candids like I had wanted. This maybe my favorite photo, as it was natural and not posed.   

With my parents. What you can't see is that it was 100 degrees outside that day. 

With Peter's parents and brother. 

Our wedding party. 

My bridesmaids. From left to right are Jen, Karen, Colleen, and Christine. I went to graduate school with Jen and Colleen; I have known Karen since 6th grade; and Christine went to college with both of us. 

Peter and our groomsmen. From left to right: Rich, Dave, Chris, and David. 

Peter grew up with Rich. Dave is a friend of ours from college. Gifted physician and musician. In fact, Dave was staying in the college dorm we were in during the summer of 1989. The summer I met Peter. Dave verified for me that Peter was in choir with us, since I frankly did not believe Peter when he told me we sung together at school. It is the running joke Peter and I have with each other!  Peter's opening line to me was.... 'how is choir?' My response was.... 'why? You are not in choir.' I honestly thought Peter was trying to hood wink me, until Dave said.... 'YES Vicki, Peter is in choir!'

Chris is Peter's brother, and David is the husband of my friend Jen. 

My maid of honor, Karen. I traveled to Philadelphia with Karen recently  to celebrate our birthdays. 

The beauty of our table settings at the reception! We worked hard at getting the look we were after, as there was a Victorian theme to the wedding. 

Of course there is a story to the bride and groom on top of the cake. This topper is a Lladro piece. Any case, when we transported this piece to the bakery, the bride's left hand fell off. We glued it back together and she made a glorious come back for the actual wedding. However, our joke is we call her 'leftie.' Most people do not know our inside joke. When I was moving my parents last summer, I found Leftie at their house in a closet. I have now brought her back to our home. The topper is on display and of course I always get a chuckle at our inside joke!