Our Wedding on October 10, 2010
Because your love and friendship have guided and inspired us, we invite you to join us as we celebrate the beginning of our new life together. On October 10, 2010, please meet us at the “top of the hill” at Larz Anderson Park in Brookline, MA at 3:00pm.
Our wedding ceremony will be followed by a 5:00pm reception at the Holliston Historical Society Barn & Grounds featuring a light buffet dinner, drinks, lawn games and dancing. If it is rainy, the ceremony will move to the Asa Whiting House at the Holliston Historical Society.
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Gift Registries
Your pressence at out wedding is a present. We look forward to seeing you at the ceremony and on the dance floor. If you would like go give us a gift we are registered at the following places; Amazon Wedding Registry and Crate and Barrel.
How do you get to this joyus celebration anyway?
To Larz Anderson Park
25 Newton St, Brookline, MA 02445 http://tinyurl.com/larzandersonpark
Directions from the West: Take 128 to Route 9 east, towards Boston. You will pass the Chestnut Hill Mall on your left side. Five lights after the mall, you will come to the intersection of Route 9 and Chestnut Hill Avenue and Lee Street, take a right onto Lee Street and follow to end. At the end of Lee Street, take a left onto Newton Street. Follow Newton Street for approximately ¼ mile. The road will fork, go to the left on Goddard Ave. Park is ¼ mile on the right.
Directionts from the East: Take Route 9 west, towards Newton. After you pass the Brookline Reservoir on your left, take that left onto Lee Street, follow Lee St. to the end. At the light turn left onto Newton Street. Follow Newton Street for approximately ¼ mile. The road will fork, go to the left onto Goddard Avenue. Park is ¼ mile on the right.
To The Holliston Historical Society
547 Washington St, Holliston, MA 01746 http://hollistonhistoricalsociety.org/
Direction from Larz Anderson Park
Turn right onto Newton Street toward Goddard Circle, turn right at Clyde Street and continue onto Lee Street. Turn left onto Route 9 (Boylston Street) for 6 1/2 miles. Turn right on Oakland Street and turn left on Route 16 (Washington Street) for the next 11 1/2 miles. The Holliston Historical Society will be on your right.
About Us. How FiSheryl Got Their Groove Back.
Fish and Sheryl met at Massachusetts College of Art and Design where they both earned their BFA’s and overlapped by two years, but never interacted as students. It wasn't until they graduated from school and Sheryl moved back from California that they were reunited as employees at the college. Fish worked in Admissions as an assistant director and Sheryl in the Registrar's Office as a registrar’s assistant and was also a graduate student in Art Education.
A good friend and co-worker of Sheryl & Fish, Heidi Geis, casually introduced the pair during Sheryl’s first week on the job at MassArt. Heidi brought a broken-armed Fish in a sling for a visit in the Registrar’s office for an introduction to Sheryl.
Soon they spotted each around campus, and increasingly crossed paths at art openings in the college and then in the spring of 2007 their work was selected for MassArt’s annual benefit auction. By chance, their pieces appeared next to one another in the catalogue and in the gallery. At the artists preview reception they ran into each other and really hit it off when they found themselves each holding a glass of wine unable to clap their hands after President Sloan’s speech for the reception. They teamed up to clap their spare hands together. They ran into each other several days later at the actual opening; they sat side by side during the live auction in seats reserved by their mutual friends Maribeth, Khalid, Sonia & Ravi.
At the end of the successful auction (both pieces sold!), Fish handed Sheryl a CD and said, "Listen to this and think of me". Sheryl raced home that night and played the CD full of Phil Spector produced songs including "Be My Baby" by the Ronnettes and "Strange Love" by Darlene Love.
Four weeks after the benefit auction, Fish invited Sheryl to a group show he was in at the Cyclorama in the South End of Boston. Fish carted all of his artwork there on the train and sold all but two tiny pieces of art. Sheryl asked, "How are you going to get all this work home?" Fish said, "I am going to take the train". Sheryl said, "Well, I drove tonight, would you like a ride?" Fish accepted and since that evening they have spent every day together having much fun traveling the world, enjoying friends and family, making art, living together and laughing often.
The Proposal at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Fish proposed to Sheryl on a random Thursday night in October, October 8th, 2009. Fish invited Sheryl to see a stringed Béla Bartók concert at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
The concert’s first half was a technical lecture meticulously breaking down (what felt like) every single note in the piece to be played in the second half. The passionate composer lectured on the pieces of music delving into measures and furiously analyzed each note. During the lengthy dissection, Fish and Sheryl decided to pass notes, joking about the cello player’s brief yawn, what to have for dinner, etc. All the while Fish managed to remain as cool as a cucumber. After the brief intermission, the small quintet orchestra furiously played through the entire piece from beginning to end; it was beautiful and totally worth the wait.
After the show Fish took Sheryl downstairs to look at the flowers in bloom in the indoor courtyard. Fish and Sheryl had only been to the Gardner museum together once before when they worked together at MassArt. They sat exactly where they sat the first time they visited, across from the beautiful garden on a marble bench beside a small babbling fountain in the wall.
Fish handed Sheryl a card and said, “I made you something”. Sheryl was surprised; her birthday was two weeks away, and it was too far away for this to be a birthday card. The card had two orange rubber bands around it and was folded like a treasure map. She unfolded the huge card and inside was filled to the brim with drawings by Fish of places they had visited together.
There was a drawing of the two of them in a canoe with fireworks overhead from the past three years when they spent 4th of July on the Charles River. There was a map of America and indicators of all the places they visited from Maine to San Francisco. There was a map of Italy with Rome marked off where they spent their first Valentine’s Day.
Sheryl began to feel nervous, why was she receiving this card? She looked over at Fish who just sat calmly smiling. Sheryl decided to dart her eyes to the middle of the page to see if she could catch a hint as to what this was all about. All she saw was the word "Marry". Her cheeks began to feel flushed and her voice quivered, "What does this say? What does this say??" Fish said "Will you marry me?" and Sheryl immediate said "YES!" and cried with such intense happiness.
They hugged and kissed and hugged behind the ginormous card. Fish waited for Sheryl to gain her composure and he placed a velvet box on her lap and opened it. "Do you like it?" Teary Sheryl said, "It is beautiful". Fish took it out and put it on her finger. Oops! 2 1/2 sizes too big, oh well, that is what re-sizing is for. They decided right then and there to set the date for 10-10-10, just one year away.