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PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2001.
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Couple puts wedding on ice
By Janice Becker
Citizen staff
It was fun, unique and just a little
cold for the family and friends who
attended the fall wedding of Judy
Mason and Greg Cook in Blyth.
While their wedding at centre ice
in the Blyth and District Community
Centre certainly was not traditional,
it was perfectly suited to the couple
who had each spent years involved
with broomball and whose romance
had flourished on the ice.
"The wedding idea all started as a
joke," said Judy. "Greg had been in
Vegas and had seen a couple (marry)
between games, so he suggested it."
Though it may have been taken
light-heartedly at first, the couple
soon began to realize just how right
a broomball theme wedding would
be for them. Greg plays for two
men's teams and coaches two
younger squads while Judy plays in a
women's league and coaches junior
broomball. Even their children had
been involved in broomball over the
years.
"I also didn't like the idea of a big
(traditional) wedding," says Judy. "It
wasn't me. We both like having fun
and didn't want anything big and
serious."
The next question was could they
pull it off.
Discussions with the arena manag-
er in the spring of 2000 resulted in
them booking a date early in the fall
skating season, before much hockey
or broomball got underway. Judy
says she kept checking with the
manager to make sure everything
was still alright.
Then they had to find a minister
willing to perform the unusual cere-
mony. After some searching they
found Chris Morgan of Benmiller,
who, according to the couple, will
"marry people anywhere".
Both say they were thrilled with
Morgan's participation in their spe-
cial day, Not only did he accept their
unusual request, but agreed to wear a
referee's outfit and had fun with the
broomball theme as well.
Once the location and official were
settled, Judy and Greg set out to
track down all the trimmings for the
sporty occasion.
Not only did Forest Ice, a broom-
ball manufacturing company out of
New Brunswick agree to supply
broomball shoes and pants for the
wedding party, they provided tiny
broomball pins for the couple to
hand out as mementoes.
, A Quebec company, D-Gel, sup-
plied small orange rubber balls for
the many children in attendance. On
these the couple wrote their names
and date of the wedding.
Because the couple wanted their
family to be close to the ceremony,
not sitting in the stands, carpet had to
be found for a seating area on the ice.
While helping with tear-down of
the International Plowing Match,
Greg heard that -a large section of
carpeting from a government tent
was going to be dumped. He asked
and he received.
The carpeting was used not only to
cushion a seating area at mid-ice, but
as a pathway for the entrance of the
guests and the bride and groom;
Even the family was expected to
get into the broomball theme: With
more than 50 years of broomball
between them, Greg and Judy made
contact with the many teams and
associations with which they had
been affiliated or played for over the
years. Each team was asked to pro-
vide two uniform shirts for the
guests. The family was soon decked
out in every colour of the rainbow
with some shirts dating back to the
1950s.
To add a special touch to the run-
way, large broomballs were placed
along the walk and brooms lined the
area along where the family sat.
When the couple left, family mem-
bers raised the brooms, crossing
them over the couple's heads.
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