O'BRIEN m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-08-20 published
COUGHLIN /
O'BRIEN
Barb COUGHLIN and the late Don
COUGHLIN of Lucan, and Kim and Dorothy
O'BRIEN of Wyoming are pleased to announce the engagement of
their children Jan and Erick.
An October wedding is planned.
Join them for a Stag and Doe at the Wyoming Fair Building on
August 27th, 2005 at 8 p.m.
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O'BRIEN m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-12-09 published
O'BRIEN / DI
MURRO -- Engagement
Peter and Honey
O'BRIEN, of Sarnia, wish to announce the engagement
of their daughter, Heather
O'BRIEN, to Marco DI
MURRO, son of
Alessandro and Tullia DI
MURRO, of Sarnia. Heather and Marco
will exchange their wedding vows at Saint Michael Roman Catholic
Church in Bright's Grove, followed by a reception at the Dante
Club in Sarnia on September 22nd, 2007
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O'BRIEN m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-06-07 published
Romance buoyed by the Thames
By Jennifer
O'BRIEN,
Sat.,
June 7, 2008
Maybe it was a fluke, that each heard the river calling.
But their love is what it is, and the river runs through it.
Sarah BAIER and Walter
PARKINSON met by the Thames River, were
engaged along the Thames and today, in front of nearly 200 Friends
and family, are to marry by the Thames.
It started three years ago, at a beginner rowing class out of
Springbank Park in London.
BAIER joined at a friend's behest.
PARKINSON signed up after
seeing an advertisement for Learn-to-Row while driving home to
Lucan.
Turns out, she had her back to her future husband the first time
she got a good look at him.
"He was in the boat behind me and I looked back. Then, I did
a double take. I looked back again,"
BAIER said of that moment
near a boathouse.
"I noticed her right away, said a grinning
PARKINSON.
"After a week or two, I was definitely more looking forward to
seeing her than the rowing."
It was a good summer on the river for the two twenty-somethings,
who had joined the club looking for nothing more than a new experience.
They got to know each other during the classes, with small talk
and secret glances.
"We'd be in separate boats, so sometimes you'd just try to catch
a glimpse as his boat went by,"
BAIER said.
After class, a couple of times a week the entire group would
go out for drinks.
Then, they had their first date -- July 23, 2005, when
PARKINSON
took BAIER to see his family-owned racehorse, Lady D M, compete
at Mohawk Raceway in Campbellville.
And that was that.
Two years later,
PARKINSON took
BAIER to one of his favourite
haunts, the Thames behind his grandparents' farm in Thorndale,
and proposed.
Today, they're to marry in Fanshawe Conservation Area, along
Fanshawe
Lake, which as
BAIER pointed out, "is still water from
the Thames."
The theme is intentional, they say, because the river has been
a thread through their relationship.
"I do have this special place for the river now," said
BAIER.
"When we were rowing, we'd fall into it sometimes and we really
wanted to shower as fast as you can… but I still love the thought
of coming down to the river."
Asked if they'll continue to mark every special event by the
Thames, the couple smiled.
"I think it would be neat, if and when kids come along, to take
them here,"
BAIER said.
I do have this special place for the river now.
Sarah BAIER
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