The Yankee’s parents are celebrating their 40th anniversary this weekend.
The Yankee and family friends conspired to throw them a little surprise party. Here they are walking in the door of a little Italian restaurant they frequent:
Did you hear her say “We say your car?” That was one of their local friends. We parked right next to them and they said “That looks like their car … ” We also parked right next to an out-of-state family member’s car. No one noticed it.
We crammed 28 people into Tutti’s, the delicious little Italian place. Everyone had a great time. My mother-in-law said “These are all of the people we’d want to have dinner with.”
The Yankee and all of the people involved in putting the party together did a great job. The guests of honor had no idea.
One of the brides’ maids produced the dress she wore 40 years ago. Some of their lifelong friends brought out the old photographs.
Here are two snapshots someone showed off, taken just after the young couple had returned from their honeymoon:
Here’s another picture from some time shortly after that:
And these next two pictures were taken on the night they met. This was at a one year reunion for her nursing program. I was sitting tonight next to the lady who set them up, she told me the whole, cute, story.
My mother-in-law is on the far right, decked out in crepe paper. It seemed to be the style of the time. The guy in the awesome jacket was a doctor in that nursing program. (Three of her nursing classmates were at the party tonight.)
Facing the camera in the photograph on the left is the groom-to-be. He’s a bit fuzzy in the original too, but there’s an entire series of pictures where he’s floating in the background, in that posture, in the same place.
She says he tried to pick her up by suggesting they go out to his car and listen to his stereo.
“No way,” she said. But he’d finally win her over. He’d soon tell his friends she was the one. They’d be married a year or so later.
And here they are today, surprised and surrounded by their friends.
Great party.
