Wedding Serendipity?

It never ceases to amaze me when this huge world we live in, with billions of people, that serendipity still happens. A couple were married at Squabetty last September. They booked almost two years ago. There was the normal back and forth emails as the date approached. About a week before the wedding the groom asked us if we happened to be related to Mary McLane, who lived in Acton, Mass. Indeed, we were: she was our aunt who lived in a co-housing community in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The groom relayed that Mary was like a second grandmother to him growing up and that they planned to have a picture of her at their ceremony. Seeing how important Mary was to this family, I dug up the picture of Mary at my wedding at Squabetty decades ago and left them a copy with this note: “She has been here many times and is here with you now.” It makes me wonder if their choice of Squabetty for their wedding had some special forces at play or if it was just serendipity. Regardless, I’m pretty sure that connection made the day even more special.