Champagne Toast on 11/7/06:

Here’s to the continued happiness of Matthew Janiga and Erin Quirk!

We attended their wedding yesterday and many happy memories were involked by their fun, semi casual nuptials.

I was taken back to my own wedding, more than eighteen years ago when the current groom, Matt, my husband’s nephew, was our ring bearer. He was five at the time, but very serious about getting those rings down the isle precisely right. He was handsome in his tux at five, and just as handsome now! My photo is not a good indication of just what a beautiful couple they are!

Matt and my friends’ daughter were quite a pair as they came down the isle together as ring bearer and flower girl in 1988. I’m going to try to scan a photo (A new skill I’m attempting) and will post it here later.

And now the flower girl is an orchestral quality oboe player at the conservatory in San Fran, and my ring bearer is settling in, employed in his field of study in business.

No. Really. I’m not that old! However, I DO sound like a crochety aunty who only remembers the good old days when bread was 75 cents a loaf and you could see a movie—with popcorn—for less than five bucks. Them were the days! ^_^