Here’s a quick, freehand, digital impression of Heinz Chapel on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA, where I got married to the love of my life, Annyth, aka, Zoydenia de la Barca on March 20, 1993. A classmate of ours at the time in the Anthropology Department at American University, Hal Recinos, performed the ceremony. It was a beautiful service, and it marks what remains the biggest and most perpetually revolving turning point in my life. Happy anniversary, Annyth.

(Procreate, Apple Pencil, iColorama)

Wedding Invitation:

Click on artwork by Sandra McPeake to enlarge.

The recessional music that we picked was the fifth movement, in F major, of Symphony for Organ No. 5 (1879) composed by Charles-Marie Widor, often referred to as simply Widor’s Toccata. Click on the YouTube video to hear a recording of Widor himself – at the age of 89 – play his Toccata.

Reception: Christophers on Mt. Washington in Pittsburgh, PA (currently the Monterey Bay Fish Grotto)

the youngsters themselves…back then