Wedding

i. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
admit impediments. Love is not love
which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no! It is an ever-fixed mark.
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
it is the star to every wandering bark,
whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
within his bending sickle's compass come;
love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

ii. from Love’s Labor’s Lost

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
Lives not alone immured in the brain;
But, with the motion of all elements,
Courses as swift as thought in every power,
And gives to every power a double power,

iii. from Hamlet

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

iv. Exchange of Rings from several plays and Sonnet 88

One half of me is yours, the other half yours
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.

Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.

Keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key.

You may kiss the bride

Wedding Pictures

Counting Chickens.

Q: Is this too soon to post this?
A: I don't know, but isn't it cute?

Lucy Goose

Here's a picture of Susan and Maid of Honor Lucy "Goose" Danford.



Here she is again with her parents, Steve and Linda, at Tivoli outside of Rome.


She is a great Maid of Honor and a wonderful friend. She's also an accountant-in-training, a freelance New Orleans tour guide, an art history scholar and an accomplished socialite.

Things We Do

Clay plays guitar.
Susan is a writer.
Susan and Clay both like to travel and ski.

Here is Susan at an exciting Indian restaurant in New York.


Here is Clay at the beach.

Here is Susan playing dress-up (It's Halloween) with Chrissy the Bridesmaid.


Here are Susan and Clay visiting a plantation in White Castle, Louisiana.


And here they are later that day at tiny french restaurant in Baton Rouge.



Clay also teaches karate! Here he is at a tournament.



Here is Susan at John Keats' grave in Rome.


Susan also played the piano for many years. Both Susan and Clay were in lots of plays. They were even in the same plays but not at the same time.
Susan also likes to play tennis. Sometimes Clay plays tennis with her. She plays the theremin too, but not very often. One of the most exciting things Clay and Susan have done together is to go on a swamp tour near Baton Rouge! They were not eaten by alligators.