ADAIR
ADAM/ADAMS
ADAMSKI
ADAMYK
ADKIN
ADLER
ADAIR m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2003-09-06 published
FOX /
ADAIR - Marriage Announcement
Rob and Gail
FOX together with Bob and Brenda
ADAIR are pleased
to announce the forthcoming marriage of their children, Tracy
Mariellen and Paul Edward.
The wedding will take place on September 13, 2003 at St. Andrew
Memorial Church, London, Ontario.
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ADAM/ADAMS m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2003-04-05 published
Eunice and Jack
ADAM/ADAMS, 50th Wedding Anniversary March 28, 2003
"Two Hearts joined as One"
Congratulations and much love from your children and grandchildren!
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ADAM/ADAMS m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2003-08-26 published
ADAM/ADAMS,
Jack and Edna - 59th wedding anniversary
Happy
Anniversary wishes to Jack and Edna
ADAM/ADAMS on their 59th.
wedding anniversary, August 26, 2003. Love your family.
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ADAM/ADAMS m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2003-09-13 published
BURGARD /
ADAM/ADAMS
Cathy BURGARD and Dave
ADAM/ADAMS
Congratulations to Dave and Cathy who were married in the Elmo
Curtis Rose Gardens, London on September 3, 2003.
Wishing you love forever.
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ADAM/ADAMS m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-01 published
CHIDLEY /
ADAM/ADAMS
Congratulations and Best Wishes
Fred and Milly
CHIDLEY are pleased to announce the wedding of
their son Thomas to Nicole
ADAM/ADAMS on November 15 in Wichita, Kansas.
Nicole is the daughter of Joe and Dawn
ADAM/ADAMS of Wichita. Tom and Nicole will reside in Ontario.
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ADAMSKI m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-07-02 published
ADAMSKI,
Stan and Dianne - Happy 45th Anniversary
(July 1st 1960-July 1st 2005)
We wish you the best life has to offer. With all our love from
your family and Friends.
Congratulations on 45 years together.
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ADAMYK m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-11-26 published
Jessica Karie
RUYGROK and Daniel Donald John
DIFLORIO -- Match:
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Saturday,▼
November 26, 2005, Page M5
Although Jessica
RUYGROK and Daniel
DIFLORIO had once played
together as two-year-olds at a Christmas party, they seemed destined
for close encounters and detached lives.
In their early teens, while they were at different high schools,
she trained on the running track that circled the field where
he played baseball. "I always noticed the catcher and he always
noticed who was running in the red top," she says. But those
encounters never went beyond furtive glances.
Two years later, they again came tantalizingly close at a Halloween
party, but their costumes kept them from recognizing each other.
Finally, a mutual friend introduced them in October, 1999, when
Ms. RUYGROK was in her last year of high school and Mr.
DIFLORIO
had started to study engineering at George Brown College.
"There was a mystery to him, and I wanted to get to know him
better," she says.
"We developed a strong Friendship, played pool, and I could talk
to her like one of the guys," Mr.
DIFLORIO says.
Intrigued, yet slightly taken aback by her sharp tongue and quick
wit, he pretended indifference.
On Valentine's Day, 2000, he offered a tepid card: "Be my Valentine,
be my friend." But a couple of days later she stopped by his
house to watch a movie. Suddenly, they kissed.
The reluctant romantics' feelings would manifest a few weeks
later. On a trip to Mexico with her graduating class, Ms.
RUYGROK
remembers, "I just felt empty, wishing he was here." Mr.
DIFLORIO,
meanwhile, admits that he "moped around and did absolutely nothing."
On her return, they saw each other daily. Then she left for a
massage therapy program at Sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough
and stayed there over two summers.
The long-distance relationship endured, however. "I believe it
was a test for us," Ms.
RUYGROK says. "The separation gave us
a chance to be more independent, and kept things in a nice balance."
The athletic couple fence, play badminton and hockey, and when
she returned to Toronto, they volunteered for the same team --
he on the ice as a coach, she on the bench as a trainer.
Ms. RUYGROK, who works at the Optimum Health Clinic in Mississauga,
had always wanted to have her own home before marriage. In January,
she was out of town at a hockey tournament when Mr.
DIFLORIO,
now a mechanical designer, called to say their offer on a handyman
special had been accepted. He felt it was time the co-owners
extended their partnership. "Driving from work, it just popped
into my head," he says. "I had the next day off, and went out
and bought a ring."
On February 11, as the couple skate-skied at Hardwood Hills,
the more experienced Ms.
RUYGROK set a brisk pace. She paused
for Mr. DIFLORIO. "He took his gloves off. I was impatient, saying,
'You don't have to take [them] off to have a drink.' Then he
started saying nice things to me, but I wasn't paying much attention,"
she says with a laugh. Then she froze as Mr.
DIFLORIO brandished
a diamond.
On Friday, August 26, at the Glenerin Inn, the bride entered
to the subtle strains of a Spanish guitar. Her gown of ivory
French silk, accented with antique lace, was a gift from her
aunt, Ottawa designer Janine
ADAMYK. On a canopied deck with
a forested ravine as backdrop, 90 guests watched as Dr. Antoine
AOUAD wed the couple. "[It was] very Jessica, very rustic," maid
of honour Conor
SNELSON says. "They are young -- both 24 -- [and]
have careers and a home, whereas most people our age aren't there
yet. They really knew what they wanted and went after it."
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ADKIN m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-11-18 published
GAVIGAN /
ADKIN -- Marriage Announcement
Nicole GAVIGAN and Chris
ADKIN are happy to announce their marriage
on Monday, November 6th, 2006. The beautiful ceremony took place
in Mexico where they were accompanied by nineteen family members
and Friends. Chris and Nicole will celebrate with many more at
a reception on Saturday, November 18 in London, Ontario.
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ADLER m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-01-22 published
Marnie SUGARMAN and Stephen
ADLER -- Match
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Saturday,▲
January 22, 2005 - Page M6
If Stephen
ADLER chronicles his memoirs, the results will leave
the uninitiated bedazzled. In first-year university, with the
bravura of a 19-year-old, he wrote to Dennis Swanson, president
of ABC Sports: "You gave Oprah her first job, now give me mine."
And he scored. For the next three summers, he worked as an intern
in sportscasting for the major U.S. networks. The bold feat even
led to an interview with Oprah Winfrey herself.
So it's not surprising the story of his engagement to Marnie
SUGARMAN features more of the same bold strategizing.
Ms. SUGARMAN, a former camp counsellor, got together with Mr.
ADLER after bumping into his sister, Pamela
ADLER, a one-time
charge of hers, on Bloor Street. "My brother looks pretty good
these days," Ms.
ADLER told Ms.
SUGARMAN.
Ms. SUGARMAN handed over her number, and shortly after that encounter
in November of 2001, she and Mr.
ADLER met.
"She was stunningly beautiful, and I had her on the first date
when I casually said I had been on Oprah, and then changed the
topic," says the University of Ottawa graduate, who is now a
fundraiser at Reena, a Toronto agency that works with the developmentally disabled.
Ms. SUGARMAN, who holds a master's degree in journalism, enthuses
about their common interests. "At the time, I was an associate
producer for W-Five and he didn't ask me to explain. It was brilliant."
Later, she told her mother, "I think I met my match, someone
who talks as much as I do."
Further, both embraced the value of family. Their visit to his
grandparents in Montreal profoundly affected her. "He respected
them and they loved him, yet were Friends. It was pivotal --
I had always wanted someone who respected family the way I did," she says.
By the summer of 2003, Mr.
ADLER was envisioning the extraordinary:
"To give her the biggest and best proposal story anyone can have."
But because of her close relationship with Friends and family,
he knew Ms.
SUGARMAN would want to be with them when she got engaged.
He concocted a bifurcated approach. In a parody of the phantom
character George Kaplan in Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest,
Mr. ADLER created a fictitious client whom he described as a
flamboyant bon vivant. Then, he arranged an appointment at the
Windsor Arms hotel, where the couple headed after a Peter Gabriel
concert in July, 2003. "Even his parents were in on it, saying
he [the supposed client] sounded fabulous," Ms.
SUGARMAN notes.
"And I bought into every ounce of the story."
When they arrived, they received a message that the client was
delayed but that they were invited to his suite, where flowers
and delicacies awaited. Suddenly, when Ms.
SUGARMAN noticed the
stuffed bears that were reminiscent of Mr.
ADLER's first gift
to her, the jig was up. "She almost started to convulse, smiling
and wailing in combination as I got down on one knee and proposed,"
Mr. ADLER says. He then ushered her to the downstairs bar, where
family and Friends toasted the engaged pair.
Two weeks later, the spectacular finale was set. Mr.
ADLER persuaded
her boss to commandeer a reluctant Ms.
SUGARMAN, now a television
producer for Red Apple Entertainment, who was in the midst of
a long-awaited interview. "My boss wouldn't even let me go to
the bathroom," she says. "We ran, ran, ran, out. Stephen put
his foot on the pedal, and we were off."
Timing was crucial because of distance, a border to cross, and
an intractable schedule dependent on the weather. Mr.
ADLER gave
her a series of envelopes to open in sequence, each with driving
directions that collectively led to their final destination,
without revealing it.
Mr. ADLER fuelled the drama by insisting that she relinquish
her ring. "The place we're going you can't be engaged or married,"
he explained.
A six-hour push found them in Akron, Ohio, at sunset, on the
tarmac for the Goodyear blimp. "Oh my God, you're going to ask
me to marry you again," Ms.
SUGARMAN guessed. "I'm going to laugh!"
"I don't care what you do," Mr.
ADLER whispered, "but they think
this is our engagement and you'd better cry." As the blimp ascended,
he handed her a love note, tears gushed on cue, and the flight
crew applauded.
An engagement on the blimp was as likely as a seat on Apollo,
yet undeterred, Mr.
ADLER had e-blitzed for months every potential
source to plead his case, while saving every correspondence for
Ms. SUGARMAN, an avid scrapbooker. Finally, an empathetic ear
at Goodyear agreed to help.
On October 10 at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre,
Rabbi Erwin
SCHIELDS wed the couple, then both 27. The bride's
92-year-old grandmother, whose 65th anniversary was that very
day, attended the ceremony. Their odyssey would continue on a
honeymoon planned by Ms.
SUGARMAN to the Seychelles Islands,
Zanzibar and Madagascar.
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SUSSMAN /
FORTIS -- Sam and Fran
SUSSMAN are thrilled to announce
the engagement of their daughter Tammy to Andrew,
son of proud
parents Julius and Sharon
FORTIS and Brenda
ADLER.
Proud grandfathers
are Bert SWARTZ and Mike
TRAURIG.
Ecstatic siblings are Nicki,
Randi, Shawn, Alicia, Trisha and Jamie. Fondly remembered at
this time are grandparents Mendel and Lola
SUSSMAN,
Rose
SWARTZ,
Rose FORTIS,
Sandy and Sid
ADLER, Albert and Bertha
WEITZMAN.
Mazel Tov!
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