One more wedding-related post and then I’ll stop for a while. I want to make sure and acknowledge our Justice of the Peace, Gayle Smalley, and happily recommend her to anyone considering a marriage in Massachusetts. She not only performed our ceremony on short notice, but helped us through the entire process of creating our vows and finding a location. She was willing to listen to our input and give us as much or as little help as we wanted. As it turned out, she sent us a very good first draft that we only needed to tweak slightly to say exactly what we wanted. She understood that the ceremony marked a long-term relationship already in progress, and crafted the language to reflect that.
During the ceremony, she was upbeat yet calming. Afterwards, she laughed at my parents’ anecdotes, which was enough in itself for her to earn her fee. She clearly loves her work as a JP. She’s based in Newton, a lovely suburb southwest of Boston, and her contact information is at Findajp.com.