Congratulations newlyweds Owen & Ellen!

Updated 10/19 with more photos, videos

Owen and Ellen were married on Sunday, Oct. 13 in an afternoon ceremony at Our Lady of the Cape RC Church in Brewster, Mass.

Ellen and daughters	With this ring...

Just Married!

A happy crowd of family and friends then joined the couple for a reception at Wequassett Resort in Chatham.

It was a wonderful, joyous gathering, with fine food and plenty of dancing. Click the links below for more photos - and a couple of video clips of the dancing!

  

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The following evening, the new Mr & Mrs were headed to Europe for a honeymoon on a Viking River Cruise.

Owen posted this photo from Amsterdam and wrote: "I'm guessing this is what it looked like for my earliest traceable ancestors when they made the trip to New Amsterdam and started our American family. Thanks for making the trip, guys!"

Stephanie on field with Towson U. Marching Band

The Towson University Marching Band performed in the annual Collegiate Marching Band Festival at J. Birney Crum Stadium in Allentown, Pa., on Sept. 29.

Stephanie is now in her second year playing clarinet in the band. Her mom, Cathy, as well as her Aunt Julie and Uncle Dan were among the crowd in the stands. (Dan and Julie had been to the stadium many times before to watch Christine and Andy in high school band competitions.)

The Towson band's 2019 show, "Driven," ends with band members running in from the field to dance in front of the crowd.

Back on East Coast, Cathy has new job

After a little over a decade in Ohio, Cathy has moved back east and is now living and working in the Philadelphia area.

With daughter Stephanie attending Towson University, and son Christopher in Delaware, Cathy began planning to relocate closer to them and to her parents and siblings. She sold her house in Hilliard, Ohio, in the spring and moved temporarily to Riderwood, Md.

In July, Cathy accepted a position as a Compliance Specialist at Lincoln Financial Group in downtown Philadelphia, and moved to suburban Prospect Park, Pa. The job is similar to the work she had been doing at Nationwide Insurance in Columbus, Ohio - making sure the policies and products sold by the company's agents are suitable for the individual customers.

Cathy is now living in Prospect Park, Pa., within an hour-and-a-half's drive of Stephanie at Towson and even closer to Christopher in Newark, Del. She's already started doing some volunteer work in the community - and, of course, attending Towson University Marching Band performances whenever she can.