Yesterday Kellian and Brian got hitched here in Salem in full 40′s style and with a bevy of swing dancing friends among the guests, many bedecked of the era. While I’m hunkering down editing here, intermittently cracking up and sighing, I couldn’t help but post a few as I go along. Mind you this is just the start of our day when Brian and Kellian see each other for the first time in the Federal Garden, a hint of our walk around town with the bridesmaids, and proof that we did stop in for an impromptu snack at Rita’s Custard on the way to the church. No sense in having a hungry bride at her own wedding.

Coming in a post soon you’ll see the evening’s swing danceapalooza featuring my new favorite band, Beantown Swing Orchestra, playing in the East India Marine Hall of the Peabody Essex Museum.

A special “merci” to Angela, my amazing, hard working, calm force of an assistant all day and evening, and to my sister Jeni, schlepper extraordinaire and another keen eye on the scene.

Enjoy peek number one…

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