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 After the wedding ceremony we had simple vegetables and fruit trays with beverages and at the end had a cake to cap off the reception. It was getting later in the day and the sun was going down. We had somewhere else to be after the wedding. My dear friends Terry Butler and his wife Beverly were moving on from his pastoral post as associate pastor and worship leader for Arcadia Community Vineyard. He had taken a new post out at the Pomona Claremont Vineyard to oversee children’s ministry, worship, and the  prayer ministry as an associate pastor . His time at Arcadia had come to an end and a new chapter was about to unfold for he and his wife Beverly . The meeting was at ACV and was kind of a send-off honoring Terry and Beverly and the important work that both had done while associate pastors at ACV.  The master of ceremonies, our good friend Dave in his opening monologue made mention of Cheryl and I being there. Dave took a few moments in his monologue to talk about us. Dave and his wife Jenny had of course, attended the wedding earlier in the day. After the wedding they along with Terry and Bev had left early at the reception to get home and quickly change clothes, jump in the car, and drive to the church for the evenings meeting to honor them. The funniest lines of his opening monologue to the assembled crowd, Dave spoke directly to us.  Frankly, being at this meeting and in the front row was a bit strange. After all, Dave remarked, “Most newlyweds don’t go to a meeting to honor a friend after they had just gotten married. They are on their way back to their hotel room…Are you catchin my drift Rob”, he said to the crown, you are not supposed to be here but in your hotel room…YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE THINKING…wait for it…wait for it…Dave’s best line of the short roast was something like “Hey Rob…You really know how to show a girl a good time”.  This had the house roaring as we were still in our wedding attire as the night was young. This was hilarious to both Cheryl and I and to the packed crowd at the meeting. As I had said earlier, we both arrived at the church in our wedding outfits, Cheryl in her wedding dress and me in my tuxedo. We were escorted to the front row.  Some of the people at our wedding also came to attend the event.  After the brief roasting by Dave the meeting continued, and after the meeting was over, we hugged lots of people and said farewell to our dear friends Terry and Bev.  It was a long end to a wonderful day.  We were married and our friends were off on a new adventure. Cheryl and I had arranged to go to a nearby condominium to spend a few days, relax, sleep, swim, eat scrumptious food and most of all enjoy our first few days married in each other’s company.  It was a lot of fun, but we had to get back to it, our regular life. 

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