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fireplace. Even then I thought, 'What a cozy
place.' There'd be a fire burning in the wood
stove, all the runway lights lit up in the dark
- it was just a beautiful sight."
If they'd been planning a typical gala
wedding, they might have had trouble fitting
everybody in - but they had fewer than 30
people at their wedding.
"We didn't want the type of wedding where
you spend the down payment of a house on
it," Mike says.
Both say their professions as OPP officers
influenced their decision to have a small and
informal wedding ("We didn't even have a
rehearsal - the first time we heard the vows
was at the ceremony," Arden recalls).
"How many domestics do we go to?" Mike
says. "We've seen marital breakdowns; we've
seen what were loving couples six, seven
months prior, at the point of divvying up all
the assets." The 'fairy-tale' wedding is no
guarantee of permanence, they say.
"And we wanted to have control over it,"
Arden adds. "We didn't want to have a big
production and we didn't want everybody in
our families to have to spend muchos
money." They paid for the accommodations
for all the out-of-town guests, as well as the
dinner that night and the wedding breakfast
the next morning, both held at the Benmiller
Inn.
"And it was an incredible meal at the
Benmiller Inn," Arden says. "I can't say
enough about it. They treated us like kings
and queens."
They picked an unusual - but eminently
practical - method of transportation to get
themselves and their guests to and from the
airport: they hired a school bus through
Charterways Transportation Limited.
"Charterways were fantastic," Mike says.
And Murray Johnson deserves very special
mention because he donated his time as the
driver. We bought hm a really nice OPP
sweatshirt, but he didn't want anything."
"He was great," Arden agrees. "And we
didn't have to worry about anything. Nobody
had that stress of, 'Omigod, it's starting to
snow."' The bus eliminated any concerns
about guests drinking and driving - and any
concerns about guests unfamiliar with the
area getting hopelessly lost as the weather
worsened.
"It was a hoot on the bus - we all started
singing TV theme songs," Mike recalls.
"Remember The Beverly Hillbillies?
Gilligan's Island?" And while they didn't
actually get to go up in the plane, they did
take photographs after the ceremony in and
around the plane.
After the ceremony in the airport lounge,
"we turned the lights down and sat around,"
Arden says. "Our families hadn't all met
before - my brothers and sisters hadn't met
Mike's brothers and sisters.
"If you have 400 people there, you don't
have time to introduce people to each other."
Monday morning, both were back at work.
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