Third Time's a Charm

Los Angeles and Canada were in the bag. We needed Ireland to complete this trinity of wedding celebrations. The third of our celebrations took place on Sharon's home grounds in Co. Cork.

University College Cork (UCC) is where we first met as students. We had a great stroll down memory lane during the photo shoot in the college quad.














A service and dinner at Ardfallen with an unforgettable array of salads and cheesecakes. It was my turn to meet childhood friends, colleagues, and every extended family member of Sharon. What a blessing to also see friends I made while living in Cork seven years ago.
I never thought I'd give a groom's speech three times. But it did get easier after all the repetition.

A cord of three strands? How about three knots in a cord of three strands? Now we're well and truly married.

A Capital Celebration

Onward by train to Ottawa, where we celebrated a second time, mostly with friends and family who couldn't make it out to L.A.

A classic multi-course Chinese meal at Mandarin Ogilvie. This time, we ate the food.

The whole village showed up. A unique sense of gratitude filled me when I was surrounded on this occasion by those who watched me graduate from diapers.

I felt as if a big piece of the puzzle slotted into place when Sharon and my in-laws met close friends, Sunday school teachers, pastors, and extended family. Can you pick out in this photo my relations from Sharon's?

Dinner meant a lot more than food. Martin's classic slideshow, footage from the ceremony in L.A., music, and a lot of laughs went down smoothly with the walnut shrimp.

In the footsteps of William

The quaint heritage-style town of Stratford, Ontario is famous for its Shakespeare Festival, the River Avon, scrumptious gourmet dining, and its swans. To me, it's also immortalized as the setting for our first week of marriage. If ever there was a relaxing honeyfourdays, this was it. Coming from L.A., vacation means a day without driving. Needless to say, being strolling distance from knock-me-down poutine, ice cream, and Tim Horton's with my wife on my arm - I was a happy man.

Grab a cup of tea and check out the photo album of our honeymoon in Stratford, Ontario.