Love transcends everything
Published:Sunday | December 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM
When love is in the air, it transcends everything. Even time?
Well, Gilbert Scott, former permanent secretary in the Ministry of National Security and his wife Ann Marie, proved it can do even that. The couple planned their wedding ceremony within weeks.
"The gentleman gave me 10 weeks to plan the wedding," said Ann Marie, with a laugh. He gave her a choice between two dates in December. Though a themed effort, the two pulled off the event on December 18.
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In a colourful ceremony, with the wedding colours being green, orange and pink, the couple exchanged vows at the Gregory Park Baptist Church in St Catherine. Family and close friends, numbering 100, stood in support of the couple. Popular songs were woven throughout the ceremony, with the bridal procession walking in to Al Green's Love and Happiness - which was also the theme of the ceremony. The maid of honour entered the ceremony to Ray Charles' I'll take care of you, and the bride to Lou Rawls' Wedding Song.
Theirs was a love story which began on March 8, 2008, a date the new husband rolled off his tongue with little effort.
On that day, he was hosting a party at home when two of his long-time friends asked if they could bring an extra guest, he agreed. "This young woman walked through the door and my jaw dropped," he said, remembering that he was in awe of her. That day, I asked her to dance and she said yes. "But my wife says that was only my imagination," Gilbert said.
It would actually take months of work before she agreed to go out with him.
"And as they say, the rest is history," he said.
The church and Jamaica Officers' Club, the reception venue, were decorated by Cynthia Beckford and the cake was by Caroline Brown.
The officiating minister was Reverend Karl Henlin and he was assisted by Reverend Norbert Stephens, general secretary of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.