Sweet Wedding for Mary and Joe at St. Mark's Chapel!

I met with Mary last October to discuss officiating her wedding to Joe. I did not meet Joe until their wedding day. They live in the DC area but chose to have their wedding in Raleigh because Mary's parents live here. Joe's parents live in South Carolina. Mary fell in love with the quaintness and charm of historic St. Mark's Chapel on the Mordecai campus in downtown Raleigh where the wedding took place at 2 PM on Saturday April 10, 2010 with an evening reception at The Umstead. 

Here the guests are standing for the entrance of the bride while John McHugh pumps away at the bladder of the Uilleann Pipes with his elbows to produce the wonderful Celtic music he is so well known for.

Our beautiful bride, Mary, made her entrance alone, to be met halfway down the aisle by Joe who was at the altar. Doesn't she resemble Grace Kelly? 

Mary is an attorney; Joe is a chef. They met when Mary decided she did not want to be a lawyer any more and ventured into the culinary arts field. She attended chef's school in New York and if I remember her story right, she and Joe met either in school or after she graduated and was working in a restaurant.

After a while, she decided being an attorney was not so bad after all so she returned to that career but the bond between these two was very strong and was not to be severed! Mary had been married before and she knew a good man when she met Joe and was not going to let him get away! When I met Joe, it was so obvious the feeling was mutual. They are very much in love and it shows. 

During the ceremony they paid tribute to their parents both of them having been married for over 50 years. I congratulate them all!

Now for the pronouncement of marriage!

I love the kiss part of the ceremony and, oh boy, was this a kiss or what! They really meant it!

The deed is done: they are married at last!

Mary and Joe, your love is so evident and it radiates from you. I know you will be so happy together and I wish you all the best in life forever and ever!

Diane with Neil Boyd Photography and her assistant were present to document this wonderful wedding. And of course John McHugh provided the fabulous music.