Fall 2009 Cover: Let the Love Shine
For cover couple David and Lucy Vorce, their
perfect day was almost spent indoors. After an evening of dining and
rehearsal in the penthouse of the Inn at Bay Harbor during the first
week of September in 2007, the rain started pouring.
“I thought,
‘It won’t stop,’” Lucy recalled. “It rained through the night and in the
morning.”
But, when the skies finally cleared, there was a
hardly a cloud to be seen. The sun came out and made the perfect
backdrop to for an early-evening wedding.
It’s been shining ever
since on the couple.
Introduced by friends in 2004, the Vorces
met while watching a football game at a restaurant in Grand Rapids.
After developing what Lucy, 29, calls a “crush” for David, 32, she
worked up the courage to get his number from a friend.
“I guess I
asked him out,” she jokes. “I liked him right away.”
Like their
wedding, the couple was on a beach when David decided to propose to
Lucy. They were on Christmas vacation in Cancun, Mexico, when they took a
walk along the shore. There in the sand, David asked her to be his
forever.
Not long after, the couple called Emerald City Designs
in Farmington Hills, a wedding planning firm, and told them they wanted
their wedding to have a small, beach feel.
Because Lucy is
originally from Mackinaw City, the two had traveled to the Inn at Bay
Harbor for weekend escapes in the north. So when it came time to pick a
location for their wedding, there wasn’t much question about where it
was going to be.
And with the sounds of waves and music, the two walked down
the aisle in front of 100 or so of their family and friends two years
ago this fall.
Remembering the day, Lucy said her thoughts always
return to their first glass of champagne during the reception dinner,
looking out on all the happy faces, and a Lake Michigan sunset in the
background.
“I just think about that moment, their smiles and
with the horizon and the blues and purples and the reds behind the
tables,” Lucy reminisced.
Their special day included posing for
photos, of course, including the cover shot that graces the front of
this Wedding Guide, all taken by Linda Drayton. An award-winning
photographer for more than 18 years, her business — Linda and Jana
Drayton Photography — is located in Petoskey.
“Linda shot my
senior pictures and my sports pictures (in high school), so there was
never a question of who was going to shoot my wedding,” Lucy said.
Since
their wedding, the couple has moved to San Diego and taken on new jobs,
David as a corporate accounts executive at the Softchoice Corp. and
Lucy as the head coordinator for quality control for the Plackers dental
floss product by Ranir.
They haven’t let work slow them down;
the couple has taken to body surfing and hiking in the year since moving
out West. And with their second anniversary approaching (shortly before
press time), the couple is planning to celebrate with a trip to Alaska.
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