Dear Friends,
As most of you know, our daughter Emma was married on Saturday, July 18, to Colin Koch from Charlotte, Vt. Colin is a wonderful young man whom Nancy and I have come to love greatly. The two of them have been pretty much inseparable for more than eight years, going back to when Emma was in the 10th grade and they were schoolmates. You don’t have to be around these two for long to see that they seem to be very much meant for each other. The wedding itself was held in the Charlotte UCC, with a reception in South Burlington attended by about 150 guests. Emma and Colin also spent a wonderful honeymoon week at St. Barth’s in the Caribbean. They are currently living in New York City.
That weekend of Emma’s and Colin’s wedding was one of the true highlights of all of our lives. Everything went extremely smoothly. It was one of the great privileges of my own life to be able to, first, walk my daughter up the aisle [and, as she put it, to 'hand her off' to Colin;] and then later in the service to come to the front and stand with my daughter and her fiancé in that beautiful church and pronounce them to be husband and wife. At one point Nancy and I were saying to ourselves that the wedding was everything we had hoped it would be and even more. Not long after that we heard Emma say almost those identical words to someone in a different conversation. It was a time of great blessing. The sun even came out!
Nancy and I deeply appreciate the many expressions of support we have received from many of you both before and after this wedding, including your best wishes for this beautiful young pair, and for the well being of all of us. We thank you so much for your affectionate support. We feel very blessed not only as parents [and now parents-in-law] but also as members of this wonderful community of the Greensboro Church, and of this town.
Your Pastor,
Tony Acheson
