Tom and Mary’s Wedding
On September 26, 1998, Mary Teichert and Tom Rotelli were married at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento, California.
Fr. Richard Malone conducted a beautiful ceremony, and our guests joined us at the Sacramento Capitol Club for dinner and dancing afterwards.
If you're interested in the formal announcement, the Washington Post carried it on Wednesday, November 11, 1998 and the Sacramento Bee reported in on November 28, 1998.
If you’re interested in a less formal look at the party, read on –- we've put up some of our favorite snapshots from the wedding and honeymoon. (Our official photo album is beautiful but hefty, so please ask us if you’re interested in seeing the whole story -- we try not to inflict it on the marginally interested.)
Tom's Side of the Aisle We had a passel of attentive and (mostly) helpful (mostly) gentlemen in the wedding party from all phases of Tom's life. They made the planning phases amusing, the execution possible, and the groom happy -- pretty indispensable tasks all!
The Best Women There were also (as one can assume) a pretty incredible group of women without whose boundless energy, humor, and supply of thread the wedding would have been a different event: there would have been no invitations, ring pillow, photographs, headpieces, veils, babysitting, rehearsal dinner, or readings and there wouldn't have been nearly as sane a bride, either!
The Two of Us Needless to say, this was an incredible day for both of us. Mary got ready at home in the morning, and Tom's entourage brought him over shortly before picture time. She came down her dad's stairs (managing not to trip, cry, or giggle), and after a rather affectionate greeting we went off to take photographs in the back yard and in front of a fountain Mary's particularly fond of. We left for the ceremony in a timely fashion (even counting a ten-minute detour for Mary's vanfull of bridesmaids to stop by McDonald's), and had the wedding we'd dreamed of. Both of us had a great time at the reception as well, and hope our guests did too.
The Honeymoon (Part I) On Sunday we left for two amazing weeks on Maui. Our hotel was posh, the sunsets were stunning every evening, and it seemed as though every vista was more beautiful than the last. We went scuba diving with a marine biologist and saw everything from nudabrinks to sharks to a harlequin shrimp, and Tom even found a soft little octopus tucked into a rock. (Ask us how we know it was soft!) The water was comfortable snorkeling temperature and the rewards were great: we swam with some giant turtles and found our new favorite fish, whose Hawaiian name is Lao-wili-wili-nuku-nuku-oi-oi. We think that beats its English title of "forceps fish" all hollow.
The Molokai Excursion During our second week we flew over to the island of Molokai to visit the place where Father Damian lived and worked with a leper colony at the end of the 19th century. The approach was memorable: we took a mule ride down a very steep cliff before spending the day touring the Kalaupapa peninsula.
The Honeymoon (Part II) Once we got back to California, we spent a few more days enjoying ourselves, unwinding from the trip, and hanging out in wine country. We visited Rabbit Ridge, Rodney Strong, and other wineries in the Russian River/Healdsburg area. We particularly enjoyed our tour of Silver Oak, in the course of which we got another taste of the cabernet that Tom's parents served at our rehearsal dinner.
We’d love to hear your comments, memories of the wedding, or anything else –please consider signing our "Guest Book" (below) or writing a note to Mary at mteichert@mba1998.hbs.edu.
Because various people have asked us to, we're leaving up a list of links to our registries -- I know Emily Post wouldn't approve but my sisters sure think it's convenient. Please feel free to ignore this little impropriety.
Thanks for visiting our site!
We are hugely grateful to Howard Rosen and Tom "Dad" Rotelli, Sr. for scanning these pictures, and to Aaron Walker for de-bugging this site. (Thanks, guys!)
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