Rehearsal Dinner Party Friday Oct 25 2013

We joined about 60 family members and friends of the soon to be bride and groom  at  the Lupo Di Mari restaurant in Rehobeth Beach (about an hour's drive from the state park) for the wedding rehearsal dinner party hosted by my cousins Adele and Michael Merson, parents of the groom, David.  For those of you who have followed our blog in the past, most faces will look familiar, and probably not that much older than when you last saw them a year and a half ago.

Adele

Bob and Michael

David

Carol (Adele's sister) and Adele

Annie (Carol's daugher) and beau Aaron

 Tom Piascik (Adele's paternal cousin) and wife Arlene in the foreground; Uncle Mickey (Adele's dad) and his lady friend, Rita;, and Joe Piascik (Adele's brother) and wife Barbara.  Carol, her husband, Nelson, my brother Joe and his wife Bev, and Bob and I were at the table in the background.

Adele paying tribute to David with laughter and tears

David's sisters, Jill and Rachel, roasting and toasting him and giving Kim some valuable advice

 David and Kim taking all the ribbing in stride