GETTING MARRIED IN ITALY 1999

This was Helen's first trip to Europe. We had spent three months making arrangements through the Italian Consulate in San Francisco to get married in Italy and finally were successful on September 29, 1999 in the Sala Rossa of the Palazzo Vecchio in little town called Florence.

The Italian marriage vows deal with more practical things such as housing and child rearing rather the the death do us part stuff. Overall, it was a terrific experience as is being married to Helen and raising our little travel warriors. Today we live about 100 miles South of Florence in Assisi.