Very rarely do I write about weddings — explaining why would fill an entire column — but every now and then there are those too good to let slip by.
My favorite involves a dear friend, former Denver Post editor Bill Hornby, who turned 85 on July 14 and exchanged vows with the former Sue Davis on July 19. Canon Poulson Reed officiated at the ceremony held in St. Martin’s Chapel at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral.
The newlyweds, both widowed, met three years ago and saw friendship give way to romance with each passing day.
They’re both active in Rotary. The new Mrs. Hornby, whose father was the international service organization’s fifth member, is district chairperson for Family of Rotary, which looks after members who are ill, grieving the loss of a loved one, or in need of acts of compassion. She also travels to Africa for one month each year to work on Rotary-sponsored water and literacy projects, and to Juarez, Mexico, with local high school students who build homes for the poor. And with her husband, she is involved in efforts to advance local child- poverty programs as well as the Rotary Youth Leadership Camp held each summer in Larkspur.
Says Bill: “After our wedding, Sue moved me lock, stock and barrel into her family compound in Lakewood, which is now our very happy honeymoon house.”
A longer courtship.
After dating for 37 years, Sandy Farber and Russell Volk were united in marriage at a garden ceremony held at the home of her niece, Kathy Bashari.
The bride, who is 71, met her future husband, 75, through The Committee, a Jewish singles group. One of their first dates was the June 1971 wedding of her first cousin, attorney Steve Farber, to the former Cindy Cook.
Rabbi Selwyn Franklin, spiritual leader of Congregation BMH-BJ, officiated at the Farber-Volk ceremony. The 70 guests included the bridegroom’s sister, Realtor Denice Reich, and her husband, Ward; host Rem Bashari; Charlene Engleberg; the bride’s sister, Bobbie Neal; and Andy Levy with his sister, Renee.
“It was very sweet and romantic,” Andy Levy reports. “Proof that fairy tales do come true.”
Deborah Jordy, executive director of Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, and Jonathan Adelman, a professor at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel Graduate School of International Studies, are at home in Denver following a month-long honeymoon that took them to Israel, Jordan and London. Adelman, “the most amazing man,” according to his bride, was Condoleezza Rice’s doctoral dissertation manager when the nation’s secretary of state was a student at DU.
He also is an international authority in Soviet and Chinese politics, comparative revolutions and contemporary Middle East issues. He has written numerous books and has been dispatched by the State Department on 15 international speaking tours.
Finally, about 100 friends gathered at Hudson Gardens last Sunday for a brunch to congratulate Skip and Amanda Porterfield on their June 7 wedding.
Skip is the son of Adrienne Ruston Fitzgibbons and Steve Porterfield and is among the first 150 to enroll at Rocky Vista University of Osteopathic Medicine in Parker.
Amanda earned master’s degrees in anthropology and Russian from Georgetown University, has studied in Russia and spent last summer on a dig in Mongolia.
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