AVERY m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-09-24 published
AVERY,
Marilynne and Bill - Happy 65th Wedding Anniversary
September 28, 2005 We are thankful that you have survived the
joys and sorrows experienced along life's journey, throughout
65 years of marriage. Congratulations to both of you!! Love,
Carolyn and Ian
BRADLEY,
Charlotte and Bill
OLDHAM and their
families.
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AVRICH m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-18 published
Victoria Mireille
HOCKIN and Craig Arthur
LAURENCE -- Match:
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Page M6
After dating for five months, Victoria
HOCKIN and Craig
LAURENCE
were still proceeding cautiously until a trip to Boston for a
U2 concert propelled their romance to the next level. There,
as they strolled through an outdoor market, past a coterie of
buskers, she describes "a turning point for both of us. One busker
was playing, All You Need Is Love, and a group of kids were clapping,
singing along. As Craig and I walked by, he stopped, pointed
and said, 'There's a couple in love, right there!' He said, 'Kiss
her,' and the kids went, 'Kiss her! Kiss her!' Craig grabbed
me, kissed me and did one of those little dips you do when you're
dancing."
"It was a poignant moment. I'll never forget it," adds Mr.
LAURENCE.
Each of them had recently become disentangled, when they met
in January, 2005. Mutual Friends arranged a double date with
the two, only to opt out at the last moment and leave the couple
to their own devices. After a long revelatory evening "out for
pints," Mr.
LAWRENCE, who is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate
of Queen's University and the University of Windsor, was enchanted
-- in awe of Ms.
HOCKIN's accomplishments and taken with her
humour. "It left me wanting to get to know her more," he admits.
Sadly, the following morning she was spirited away to the Palm
Springs Film Festival where her Last Mogul documentary on the
legendary Lou Wasserman premiered as a smash hit. (It would later
be featured in New York and Toronto, as well.) "Craig e-mailed
for the whole weekend, checking in and taking a real interest
in what I was doing, which was really nice," she recalls. "I
gave him a call when I got back."
Products of an idyllic adolescence, the couple had grown up in
Aurora, spending their summers at Muskoka camps and cottages.
He was an accomplished guitarist and she was a pianist. Together,
they saw music "as another language that we speak." She laughs
as she shares Mr.
LAURENCE's recurring fantasy: "He'd like to
say 'rock star,' but he's not."
Their parents knew each other, and Mr.
LAURENCE, now 36, had
attended St. Andrews College, where Ms.
HOCKIN's father had earlier
been headmaster. "There aren't that many girls who can talk about
what it's like to grow up in a boys' boarding school," she chuckles.
With a B.A. in English from University of Western Ontario's Huron
College, Ms.
HOCKIN, now 34, is the executive vice-president
and a partner at Endeavour Marketing. There, over the past six
years -- enlisting her business partner, Barry
AVRICH, as a writer
and director -- she has produced documentaries.
In September, 2005, Mr.
LAURENCE, a new business-development
corporate strategist at Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd., planned a Positano
getaway for the two of them. Ms.
HOCKIN's aspirations soared.
But then, in a riveting performance (citing insufficient time
to seek her parents' permission, let alone choose a ring,) Mr.
LAURENCE
provided the reality check: "I just need you to manage your expectations.
It's not going to happen in Italy."
"I really bought it," Ms.
HOCKIN admits, determined not to be
disappointed. She was subsequently astonished, then, on the balcony
of their villa in Amalfia -- as they chatted over wine and the
dinner she'd just made -- when Mr.
LAURENCE proffered the ring.
On February 4, 2006, at St. Paul's Anglican Church on Bloor Street,
the Rev. Tim
HAUGHTON officiated, as three-year-old Foxtyn
STEPHEN,
the bridegroom's nephew and ring bearer, performed flawlessly
-- despite an unnerving left turn and his disappearance at the
rehearsal. A gourmet reception followed at the Toronto Hunt Club,
with grilled cheese sandwiches, chocolate chip cookies and milk
shooters capping the evening.
"Craig is a mathematical guy, but creative when it comes to music.
Doing very different things in our careers gives us a lot to
talk about," Mrs.
LAURENCE enthuses. Her husband adds, "Tori
is a romantic, and it's great to be on the receiving end. I like
to think I'm on the giving end, as well."
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