Marilyn Bohn | Creative Organizer

Friday night we were privileged to celebrate with our friends Esther and Max Peck their 60th wedding anniversary. What a treat it was to be invited to a dinner of about 50 friends and family.

Esther planned a beautiful, delicious dinner, decorations and program. Everything was perfect down to every last detail. Because I am a professional home and office organizer I especially appreciated every tiny detail she went to to make this a memorable evening. She made little porcelain baskets filled with pastel Dutch mints for each guest. She had 11 of the most beautiful family scrapbooks complied so other family members could see cousins and other relatives who lived far away. She had a piano player, flowers and a cake with a fountain underneath it. Oh she also had a large wall quilt made with all of her family members’ photos and thoughts from each family. Everything was perfect…all because two people fell in love.

The program was so much fun. She had each one of their 8 children tell something that was funny as they were growing up. The funniest one was from their oldest daughter.

When she was about 4 ½ her and her brother had twin tricycles. Esther went outside one day and her daughter had ‘rented out’ her tricycle for candy and was ridding her brothers while he sat on the step dejected.

Another time at Christmas she got up early and saw a chalk board that had her sister’s name on it. She erased her sister’s name and printed hers. She couldn’t understand how Santa knew it was not meant for her as it had her name on it.

Thank you Esther for including us in your beautiful celebration. Happy 60 years together and may you go for ten more.