OICLES m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-02-05 published
Amy OICLES and Ronald
GOSLING -- Match:
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Saturday,
February 5, 2005 - Page M6
When planning a wedding, some couples want frothy and romantic.
Others go for the ultimate in elegance, fun or fantasy. Ronald
James GOSLING and Amy Lynn
OICLES sought a singular event that
reflected their adventuresome, roving spirits.
After all, Mr.
GOSLING, a Toronto musician, had spent months
over the years touring the United States with his band, Weirdstone,
and as a solo artist. Ms.
OICLES, meanwhile, ventured farther
afield, making forays from her native San Francisco to Alaska,
Laos, Malaysia, Nepal and Thailand, where she taught English.
So theirs was a marriage on the move -- on a tour bus.
"Everyone has a different idea about what is romantic, but we
wanted the unusual," Mr.
GOSLING says.
"Ron wanted to get married in motion because we both wandered
around so much," Ms.
OICLES, 34, adds, "and we have this dream
of crossing the U.S. in a Winnebago."
On the afternoon of January 23, a 40-foot luxury Canada Coach
pulled up to their apartment in the Bathurst and St. Clair neighbourhood.
Early arrivals decorated the chapel on wheels, cramming in food,
drink, the cake and a slew of musical instruments.
The bride and groom, outfitted respectively in traditional white
and a $28 thrift-store suit, boarded the bus, which then navigated
snowy Toronto streets to collect Friends and family from homes
and hotels.
"I was nervous for a fair chunk of it," Mr.
GOSLING, 37, says.
"I'd never been married before, and the storage bins hit my head,
but the danger just amplified the wedding."
With officiant Sarah
BUNNETT-
GIBSON balancing the bumps and curves,
the "I do's" took place somewhere between Main and Danforth,
and Greenwood and Gerrard. Passengers defied double-digit negative
temperatures to tour key Toronto attractions -- the Distillery
District, Royal Ontario Museum and the C.N. Tower -- as onlookers
rubbernecked the wedding assemblage. At Harbourfront, the celebrants
feted the coincidental birthday of the bridegroom's father with
sparklers. Aboard the bus, seven guitarists and a toy keyboard
that sounded like a cathedral organ heightened the festivities.
Six hours later, the tour ended at the couple's apartment, where
Mr. GOSLING's friend Howard
BERTOLO tickled the ivories into
the night.
The hardy entourage braved a blizzard the next afternoon to hit
the dance floor at the Chick'n'deli, where the groom's father,
jazz trombonist Len
GOSLING, wound up the group with his iconic
Climax Jazz Band, a fixture there since it opened in 1983.
The wedding's rolling venue was particularly appropriate since
Ms. OICLES actually worked as a tour-bus driver in San Francisco
in 1996 during one of her returns from her international wanderings.
"I love driving people around," she says. "But there was a lot
of pressure. If anything goes wrong, it is always the driver's
fault."
For seven years, she indulged her nomadic urge after graduating
in 1993 from the University of California in Santa Barbara.
She hung up her backpack to study psychology at San Francisco
State University, and by 2003 she was working in the public-school
system while also tutoring a student with Asperger's syndrome.
It was during this sojourn home that she met Mr.
GOSLING on April
Fool's Day, 2003, in a bar in Fairfax, California, where he was
playing guitar.
"She struck me as terrific," he says, "and we made a date for
the next day."
Several months of sun, surf and sparks made the two a pair. "Ron
is incredibly funny. His music, sense of adventure and high level
of honesty make him unusual," she says.
Mr. GOSLING plaintively admitted being homesick and missing snow,
however, just when she was ready for the road again. "I was itching
to get out of the Bay Area," Ms.
OICLES says. "It had become
expensive and everyone was working with no time to relax."
With a stop at the Grand Canyon, the duo drove across the country,
pulling into Toronto in August.
Mr. GOSLING, who frequently took on work as a house painter ("for
the bread part"), is now the superintendent in the couple's upscale
apartment building. When not nursing its cranky boiler, he practises:
guitar, piano and trumpet. "I'm kind of a Jack of many [instruments],
but the bass is my forte. I play on demos or do a gig if someone
needs a sub. I just love music."
Despite the new responsibilities, the couple's travels continue,
as they cross the border every few months to make sure Ms.
OICLES
stays on the right side of Canada's immigration laws.
"We go for weekends in Buffalo and Niagara Falls," Ms.
GOSLING
says. "It is really ridiculous, but we do what we can to stay
legal."
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OIKAWA m@ca.on.grey_county.artemesia.flesherton.the_flesherton_advance 2005-05-18 published
McCAULEY /
OIKAWA
Buck and Doe for Kelly
McCAULEY and Matt
OIKAWA
Saturday, May 28, 2005 9: 00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. at the Osprey Community
Centre
Buffet Provided $6.00
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OIKAWA m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2003-07-12 published
McFALLS /
OIKAWA
Carole and the late Richard
McFALLS of London, Ontario and Mary
and Tricky
OIKAWA of Picture Butte, Alberta are pleased to announce
the forthcoming marriage of thier children Carole Anne and Dean.
The wedding will take place at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
on August 19, 2003.
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