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PLANNING A WEDDING Much as we like to organize parties, we soon realized this one was bigger than we wanted to handle . . . . . . so we hired Jeff Slater as our WEDDING PLANNER, along with Paul Kasprzak as our CHEF. They are bringing along Megan Jones & Olivia Bunch as Workers to help decorate, clean up, and in general, keep the hall looking nice.
WEDDING PLANNER Jeff Slater	Jeff has worked at Reuther for many years as Business & Marketing Teacher. He has taken students on several trips around the world and not lost a single one, so I know he has good organizational skills. Most of the time.
Paul has worked at Reuther for many years as Food Service Instructor, as well as the Chef & Manager of our school cafeteria. He worked as manager for The Olive Garden restaurant chain, but returned to teaching, to the benefit of those who are taught by him and those who work with him.	CHEF Paul Kasprzak
Both pictures were taken in August 2003 aboard the SV Denis Sullivan during a Reuther staff inservice.
As per Jeff's admonition, we are now to relax and enjoy the process of designing the rings (22 small diamonds in each wedding band for the 22 years we've been together; a .23 carat diamond will be the main stone of the engagement ring to symbolize our 23rd year together; my band will be yellow gold with white gold inserts, whereas VetteMan's band will be the same design in white gold with yellow gold inserts), writing vows, practicing ring delivery with Cari & Rico, looking at flowers & cakes, and, of course, writing & maintaining this web site; we can let Jeff & Paul sweat the small stuff, 'cause it's the small stuff that'll kill you, or at least drive you to distraction!
Court Commissioner Anthony Milisauskas has agreed to perform the ceremony at twelve noon; the Open House/Reception will be from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m., or until everyone goes home, whichever comes last. The invitations are almost ready and will be sent out during the first week of April. I am working on a Program of sorts for the ceremony ("Cast of Characters", I call it). We have yet to find a florist who will do something "tropical"; I have a lead on a florist shop to visit, which happens to be two blocks away from the shop that is designing our rings. (I've already walked out of one floral shop in which the staff was too busy chatting to be interested in my business. I have little patience for that kind of treatment.) AmyMarie Fornelli has some great ideas for a cake, however, since she lives across the country from us, we will have to find someone closer to home. The Processional will be Love in the Library, by Jimmy Buffett (for obvious reasons); the Recessional will be Just the Two of Us, by Grover Washington, "our song" for the past 22 years. VetteMan is thinking of making an iMovie of pictures from our past 22 years to show at the Reception, although that's still in the "should I or shouldn't I?" stage. There really isn't room for a television in addition to the CD player we'll be using to play JB, steel drum, and other Caribbean-style music, as there certainly isn't room for a band, either! We have to contract with a photographer/videographer; we've already purchased a dozen 27-shot disposable cameras to distribute on the tables during the Reception for guests to take pictures. Each camera will have this label on it.

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