"Exactly Like" ... WHO?!

If you're like 97.5% of the other people who received an invitation to our wedding, you're probably wondering why in the world there's a song lyric pasted down the back of a card that is, traditionally, left blank.

THAT is an excellent question.

The answer is simple. Next to her faith, her family, and her friends, Kristin's greatest obsession is music. She never met a form of music she didn't like, in fact, but her favorite form is popular American tunage from the early to mid twentieth century. Think Irving Berlin, Ella Fitzgerald, and all of the stuff Diana Krall records - only in its original form.

This love led her to graduate school where she studied the work of lyricist Dorothy Fields, who wrote the song "Exactly Like You," which is what you read on your invitation - and hear on this Web site.

If the lyrics weren't indicative enough of two 34 year olds getting married for the first time ("I know why I've waited / know why I've been blue / prayed each nite for someone / Exactly like you!"), there's another reason the number is a perfect choice as our wedding theme: it was written in 1930. Golf lovers will instantly recognize that as the year that Bobby Jones, Jeremy's golfing hero, won the one and only Grand Slam, and if you know anything at all about Jeremy, you know that, next to his faith, his family, and his friends, his greatest obsession is golf ... and Tarheel sports, but that's a whole 'nother post.