25 YEARS AGO TODAY
It was 25 years ago today on a rainy cold night on the day after Thanksgiving (we got a lower price for the reception – we were poor) when I married Danielle Romano at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Norristown. We’ve experienced good times and bad times, raised three fine young men, and are still happily married. She still looks as good as she did on our wedding day. Me not so much. I’m about 40 pounds heavier and sporting a lot less hair.
We recently came across some pictures from 1989, the year before we got married. Here’s a Halloween party at Dani’s apartment. She lived there with her two best friends Kathy and Marybeth, and they remain best friends today as they all work together at Chap’s Tap. The cow is Marybeth.
Here’s a drunken group photo, also at their apartment on New Years Eve (they liked having parties). Dani and I are wearing the hats. Five of the people in the picture were in our wedding, later that year. Robmu1’s wife is on the far left, and Kathy is next to her. Look at those smiles and all that hair. We’re still smiling, but the guys no longer have that hair.
I look forward to the next 25 years and as we all gather at Dani’s sister’s house on Thanksgiving this week we’ll remember all the good times and our fathers who have passed in the last few years. Our wedding song was I Believe In You And Me by the Four Tops. It still applies today.
