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An "Old Fashioned Pot-Luck Thanksgiving Dinner and Wedding Feast"

• Floyd and Joy:
  

...and so we decided to get married.

It was about Labor day and we were really into food - shopping and cooking for John Wickett, helping him host several San Francisco Free University courses, Indian Cookery among them, catering events at 33 Mountain Spring Avenue, etc. Our fond memories of growing up each included large family gartherings for holiday dinners. Christmas was to much to ask of friends and family, so we decided on an event billed as "An old-fashioned Pot-Luck Thanksgiving Dinner and Wedding Feast". We started inviting everyone we knew to come and have thanksgiving dinner with us and share in the joy of our marriage. "Bring your best" was our request for gifts. About 175 people did (not counting the SFPD Vice squad - but that is a different story)

We roasted a 32 lb pig over charcol in the Mexican oven in the back yard, a couple of turkeys in the kitchen ovens and a ham in Elizabeth's oven above us at 70 St Germain Street (where Nate later gestated, again, another story). Everyone else brought enough main and side dishes to cover two more six foot folding tables, (the pig, ham, turkeys filled one), and fill the table and side boards in the large dinning room with desserts and beverages. They brought other things too, like two rock bands, one in each end of the 45 foot living room - one of them proudly packing Moog Synthesizer seriel number 2. They took turns nicely enough, but it took a promise of short and sweet for the ceremony to persuade them to take a break and let us get married.

• Joy
  

...who thinks this ought to be deleted as being too out of focus even though it appears to be the only picture of her other than than the one above - any votes?"

Floyd and Muriel Thistle

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