Laura and Damian's Wedding!
On February 28, 2009, Laura and Damian tied the knot during a lovely ceremony
in a little park on Coronado Island overlooking San Diego Bay.
They were the second couple in the next generation of their family to tie the
knot, after Laura's brother Antony and
Courtney, also near San Diego, in 2003. It was also the second wedding in
winter, but in San Diego the seasons matter very little. The Nashes are Ian's
family, as is elaborated on this page.
We were all invited, which in retrospect may have appeared a mistake: seven
of the eight of us actually showed up! The only absence was Tom, who spent
almost the entire year in Paris and whose absence was thus excused if still
regretted. It was regretted even more because of the great photos that the
wedding photographer took of the rest of us. Janet (www.purelycaptivating.com)
took time out from the strenuous work of rigorously capturing every stage and
facet of the wedding and reception to take a few of us. They are fabulous!
This first photo on the page is one of them. Another is
below, at the reception, and yet another is
here.
We in the Stock Brun family made our separate ways down to San Diego. The
parents flew down with Alex and Charlie, and the three "big kids" drove down in
the Volvo. It was quite a production ensuring that all the children, big kids
included, had a respectable outfit: there's not much call for respectable
outfits for students in California! As a result, everyone had everything they
needed, and Ian's garment bag was
left behind in Santa Cruz!
Plus, we all managed to arrive a little late to the Friday evening
entertainment, the rehearsal dinner, hosted by the bride and groom in their home
just south of San Diego. But it was still bopping, there was still food, and
there may even still have been something to drink. It was one of those evenings
that not everyone remembers very well!
Laura and Damian are posing for Janet in the above photo, outside the
reception before it started on Coronado Island.
We see the Nashes rarely these days, less since they all moved to San Diego
in around 2000, and
had never met Damian even though he and Laura had been dating and living
together for quite a while.
Meeting Damian and his family (especially Uncle Bryan from Oklahoma, between
Marie-Hélène and Ian in the photo opposite) was a real
pleasure. Weddings all have their drama, and Damian marched through it all with
considerable aplomb, and no pretenses. We tend to be allergic to pretenses, and
can smell them a mile away.
Alex is missing from this photo: we think that he was playing with a buddy he
had found. The other face at the table is Ian's sister Sue, mother of the bride,
between Alban and Nick in the photo opposite.
We (the "normal" people in our family group) returned to the Hotel on the bus kindly
provided for the wedding party. Alban, Daphné and Nick
continued their evening with their cousin Antony. We don't know many of the
details, which is probably a good thing! There were some odd stains on a jacket
or two that we noted, and they all had a very difficult time getting up the next
morning.
