The Ceremony

We didn't have any attendants per se, but my son Josh and Alan's daughter Ellie participated, says Putzi. Josh, 30, escorted Ellie, also 30, down the aisle lit with candle lanterns to the huppah, which was dressed in a spray of ivory, champagne, purple, and celadon spring flowers. Alan had asked his eldest nephew Marc, of all his nieces and nephews who had come all the way from Nantes, France, to read to me the same Andrew Marvell poem he had written on the dessert platter for his proposal, remembers Putzi. And I asked a good friend to read 'To My Dear and Loving Husband' by Anne Bradstreet to Alan.