Chester Francis-Jackson, Gleaner Writer
DAAHLINGS, IT was a year ago that legal stalwart and luminary Norman Wright and the fabulously well-to-do Jean Mignon Anderson tied the knot. It was such a fabulous ceremony that, one year later, people are still raving about the beauty of the event.
Well, the cliché is that indeed time does fly when one is having fun. And so it is that a year later, the couple, still aglow from the beauty and companionship they have found with each other, sent out a number of invitations to family friends and close associates to join them in not only celebrating the first anniversary of their union, but also to join them for a house-warming to celebrate their moving into their new home.
And so last Saturday saw a number of distinguished jurists, political potentates, St. Andrew socialites and the money and corporate power-brokers all heading to Norbury Villas, Norbrook in upper St. Andrew for the event. Dears, the affair was as smart as it was chic, and it made for an absolutely marvelous do.
Now, Norbury Villas is decidedly one of upper St. Andrew's more exclusive neighbourhoods, located between the Greens of the Constant Spring Golf and Country Club and the Norbrook foothills. And so, and not surprisingly, this community is home to a number of the nation's more affluent names!
It began at 8:00 p.m., with guests being welcomed by the charming couple and then ushered into the complex's pool area for the cocktail hour. Now this was prime time as the atmosphere was one of an easy relaxed mode, and then some! And it was a hot fashionable do, to boot.
My dears, it was like that a high-society social tamale and a fashionable swirl of the fabulous order.
With cocktails over, guests were then invited into the neighbouring main house and courtyard for the real celebrations. And celebrate everyone did a-plenty after an interlude that saw a real touch of the couple's affaire de coeur.
The reverend who prayed for blessings on the night's proceeding was actually the Rev. Dr. Elmo Lumsden, who married the couple. But the pièce de résistance came after the fabulous fare that was dinner, when dessert was served and guests were advised that indeed, the absolutely fabulous tasting cake was the top tier of the couple's wedding cake, and was saved for the occasion.
Talk about style! Dears, this was it, fabulously romantic and flawlessly sentimental!
The famed and celebrated Merritone Disco held the baton of the maestro for the evening, and, dovecakes, with guests invited to wear their dancing shoes, they partied on, way into the night.
It was a beautiful party! A fabulous occasion which included Health Minister John Junor and Mrs. Urla Junor; Mrs. Lorna Golding; Justice Ian Forte Q.C. and Mrs. Forte; Dr. Mavis Gilmour Petersen; Ambassador Derrick and Thyra Heaven; wife of the French Ambassador Mrs. Luisa Berniard; Earl and Beverly Levy; Emil George and Dr. Pamella George; Christopher and Michelle Bovell; Anthony and Jeanne Watson; Christopher and Jill Roberts; Adrian and Darilyn Foreman; Donovan and Andrea Lewis; Dr. Percy and Beverly Broderick; James Smith; Mrs. Dorothy Carter-Bradford; Aubyn and Tamara Hill; Gordon Watts and wife Maxine MacLure; Geoffrey and Jennifer Messado; Cliff and Joan Stone; Dr. Trevor and Shirley Golding; Stanley Dunwell and his elegant wife Dr. Pat Dunwell; Captain David McRae and the lovely Annette McDonnough; the charming Kingsley and Hope Sangster; Mark and Karen Myers; Dr. Melville and Patsy Ritch; Captain Michael and Anne Marie Feanny; Mrs. Judith Douglas; Anthony and Jeanne Bell; Ronnie Coke and wife Ethlyn Norton-Coke; Michael and Andrea Vaccianna; Rod and Nevine Heaven; Gregory and Michelle Mayne; George Roper; Joan Peart; John and Francis Mais (whose decorative skills and efficiency as an event organiser/producer were at play); R. Christene King; Peter Klosky of the U.S. Embassy; Ms. Pansy Bisnott; Robert and Sandy Ramsey; the elegant Carmen Brown; Ralston and Cathy Nunes, Mrs. Marcia Erskine; Monty Blake and Lorna Bess; Les Campbell; Norman and Valerie Marshall; Evon and Molly Brown, he being the evening's compère.
It was also a night for family as indeed, family members were out in force for the anniversary and house-warming. Among the family members spotted included Mrs. Thelma Wright, Ashman Samuels and his lovely wife Patricia Samuels; Dr. and Mrs. John Wright; Ms. Maggie Jean Anderson; Mrs. Rema Wright; Mr. Lloyd Wright; the beautiful Erica Anderson; her sibling, the lovely Erroleen Anderson and Phil Powell of the British High Commission; plus several others. And so it was one beautiful celebration, of a beautiful couple, so here's to many more.
