((As an amateur genealogist, I am always excited to find information about weddings that occured many years ago to my family ancestors. Therefore, I am writing this not just to tell my experiences about a wedding that occured yesterday in the year 2010, but to tell my progeny who find this post in years to come about a great family event that happened to their ancestors.
To my great, great, great, great grandchildren: this event is part of your family's life and I hope that reading it makes you feel more connected to those who have gone before you.))
Yesterday was a very happy day for the Vaughan family in Maryland. Elizabeth, the first daughter of Joe Vaughan and Elaine Langlois Vaughan was married to a fine gentleman named Will Murphy. With this marriage, the old Prepop (me) obtained a new son-in-law, as well as several tall, handsome, beautiful grand-children-in-law. Wow!
It was a wonderful marriage ceremony, full of humor and tears. The preacher (Brian Hamilton) was young and witty and seemed to know a lot about Elizabeth (Beth) and Will's lives. We got there a little late (as usual) and missed a family video show, but we did experience all of the beautiful service.
Beth was given away by her daughters, Heather and Danielle Clark, and her Maid of Honor was her daughter, Adrienne Burrell. A very professional looking Cameron Coates (Beth's grandson) did a great job as ring bearer.
For Will's side, his son, Sean, served as best man, and Will's other children and close relatives were all part of the wedding party.
Let me list the names of the others who had a part in making this a memorable day: Heather Hardesty (part of Beth's family), Mary Konilidis (wedding ideas), Mary Thorn (favors), Sister Diane Cole (centerpieces), Carol DeCarlucci (invitations and wedding cd), Jeff Simmons (music cd), Chris and Kathleen Vaughan (wedding pamphlet), nephew Joseph Bass, niece Nicole Johnson, her fiance Brad Hannon, and those others that, through ignorance, I am not listing here.
My partner Elaine (Lottes) and I were treated as honored guests and I was given the priviledge to give the toast at the reception (In case anyone is interested, I'll publish my remarks in a separate blog entry.)
The reception was held at the Hellas Greek restaurant in Glen Burnie. This place is renowned for their crab cakes. And they were good! As was all of the wonderful food that was made available.
Most of the Vaughan children and grandchildren and great grandchild participated vigorously in the dancing, with music provided by a very capable DJ. (Elaine and I also managed to dance a couple of times...although what I do should not be called dancing. My daughter in law, Kathleen, and my daughter, Diane, also very kindly put up with my foot shuffling.)
I took a lot of pictures until it dawned on me that everybody else was snapping photos that would be all over Facebook the next day. So, I relaxed and shut the camera off for a while.
As far as I could tell, everybody had a great time.. in fact, nobody seemed to want to leave at the end. But, since all good things must come to an end, Elaine and I said goodbye to old and new family and old and new friends, took our pieces of wedding cake and left the newly married couple to try to figure out how to make all of their wedding gifts fit into their car.
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Congratulations to you! I know how it feels like when your daughter leaves you and goes with her husband, it feels nice but also a little sad. My daughter just got married last week in one of the New York Event Venues and I still can’t get over the fact that she’s gone now.
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