Spring also brought renewed plans for the wedding. Mike and John were the vanguard of the planning committee. We had worked out the date, taking into account Andy’s peak schedule when horses were getting ready to show, Brad’s graduation and reporting to the University of Toledo for football practice, and the various vacation needs of the kids. The logistics of working it out for the family were almost more than my computer could take. I was the only one who seemed to have no restrictions on the date of the ceremony. Well, I take that back: horse shows were a factor but didn’t take precedence over forming a union with Andy.
We had decided on a simple beach ceremony on The Cape, where we had been once before, on July 15th, which happened to be my mother’s birthday. Why we chose this day, I
