Actually, how can you start a story about a wedding without telling about the engagement?! Greg "unofficially" (without a ring!) on my 42nd (un)birthday at The Melting Pot restaurant. Greg wanted to take us all there for dinner, so he proposed to me with Deidre, my mom and dad there. Then the hardware came a few months later. May 25, 2006 was the 25th anniversary CARA Charities fashion show, which I co-chaired. Greg's parents and grandparents were in town to meet my family for the first time and for the ladies to attend the show. I KNEW he had something planned, but I assumed it would be during dinner with the whole family or something. Little did I know what all he had planned for the day of the show. While getting my make-up done that morning at the Westin Hotel (a perk for being a co-chairperson!), one of the committee members came up to say there was a problem with the stage and could I come look at it. I thought to myself, "Why can't someone else go look at it?!" but obliged her anyway. She took me in through the ballroom, to steps up to the stage, up to where the supposed "problem" was. In the meantime, Greg had come onto the stage from behind and as I turned around, there he stood. He got down on one knee and proposed, ring and all! I hadn't even noticed that the music playing at the time was the song we had picked to be our first dance song, or that the photos being flashed up on the big screen were of us! He had arranged it all with my boss, also a committee member and planner of all things cool.
Now, for the wedding: Greg and I were married June 16, 2007 at the Garden Chapel in Greenfield, IN. There was significance in this place for me, as it was built as the original St Michael's Catholic Church in Greenfield, and I know that my grandmother attended there. It gave it a special feeling. June 16 was, to that point, the hottest day of the year. Thank goodness for air conditioning! My beautiful Deidre was my maid of honor and my bridesmaid and flower girl were my dear friend Carol and her daughter Ginny, the cutest flower girl ever! Greg's best man was his brother Scott, groomsman was good friend, Greg Vincent from Owensboro, KY and the ring bearer was my cousin's son, Sterling-quite a handsome little man!
We were so happy to have so many friends and family (including all 3 of Greg's kids) to join us on our special day!
