Our grandson, Patrick, had planned to get married next weekend. 'Save the Date' postcards were sent out many months ago. Then we were hit with a pandemic. Patrick and Grace, his fiancee, had to postpone their ceremony. They sent out "Unsave the Date" postcards. I must admit, I have never received one of those before!
Rather than postpone for a year...or however long it would be before it was safe to have a gathering, they decided to just get married. On a Thursday a couple weeks ago, they found a beautiful park and exchanged rings with just their parents present.
The next day they came to our house and had lunch with us. That Saturday they had a Zoom reception for about 40 family members!
Actually, the zoom call was fun. We were able to 'meet' so many of Grace's family who were literally all over the world. The call was at 2:00pm our time. With time zone differences, some of the 'guests' were having breakfast or lunch. A few had to get up at 4:00am, others were having dinner on Sunday! It was a lovely shared experience and certainly 'made lemonade' out of COVID 19 lemons!
But, back to the gift.
A week or so after they sent out the Unsave the Date postcard, we received two small wineglasses in the mail.
There was a note about the reception and that we could raise these glasses (with the champagne that they had brought to us) for several toasts while we were zooming.
Since they had postponed the wedding, we had not given much thought to a wedding gift... and here we were about to celebrate! I needed to paint something personal for them.
I decided to pick up on the 'we do'. The other obvious theme for me was that they are both musicians. Patrick is an accomplished harpsichordist and Grace is an amazing vocal artist.
Preliminary sketches help me to visualize ideas and to see how they can be developed.
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