08.07.06
Rochelle and Nate
After 5 years of being together, Rochelle Pereira and Nathan Hartshorn have finally decided to join their fates forever.
I’ve known Rochelle since my first year of grad school, and she is one of my very best friends. It would probably be fair to say that she is like a sister to me. A year ago she finally took the big decision to move to the beautiful Minneapolis/Saint Paul area, where Nate is working. So we were expecting that shortly thereafter they would be taking their relationship to the next level, and such has proven to be the case.
Rochelle and Nate asked me to be one of the groomsmen, and I was delighted to do so. And so four days ago I took the plane to Minneapolis and then drove with Pallavi and Pramod to the beautiful Neyaashi in Lake Wissota, to the beautiful cabin that Nate’s family has there. Bob Hartshorn, Nate’s father, heard one day from his wife Connie those four fateful words: “I have an idea”, and that was the birth of this wonderful wedding, which took place in the cabin, with the reception under a beautiful tent that took about eight people the best part of two days to decorate for the reception. And it looked magnificent!
So we got our tuxes, and we got ready, and the ceremony started. A beautiful ceremony filled with passion and love, and of course a fair bit of crying. Because what can you do when your best friend is entering this wonderful new chapter in her life, and is being married to a really great man with an unbelievably great family, except to cry tears of immense joy and happiness for your friend and her good fortune.
And so I cried. And I am crying still.
These past couple of days have been some of the best in my life, and I should at this point thank the entire Lundstrom family, and especially Bob and Connie, as well as the Pereira family, for their wonderful hospitality and all the unbelievably hard work they put into making this wedding possible.
Nate and Rochelle, I wish you both from the bottom of my heart to have a wonderful time in this magnificent journey you just started, and I know that in each other you will find the strength to pull this through. We will all always be there for you.
