Photo Gallery - Our Wedding

* Steven Deming and Lenna Andrews were married on June 11, 2005 * 

Steven requested that Lenna keep her maiden name when they were married because he was  introduced to 'Lenna Andrews' when they first met in 1972 and that name stayed with him. You'll find photos from our wedding &  the story of how we became a couple below. Did we have a long courtship? No!  Were we always friends? Yes! Were the moon, stars and a good dose of fate involved? Yes! More photos and related wedding art can be found here - and see the links in the sidebar on your right for Lenna's art galleries.

A dance before our wedding for Steven and I ; )	It's 3pm on June 11th before the ceremony! Steven, Lenna, Chris and Marla!	The wedding ceremony was held at the Hartford Canoe Club	A beautiful day June 11, 2005!
We had the ceremony outside, along the CT River	Steven's friends from work	The wedding ceremony was short!	Steven Deming and Lenna Andrews
The Rings	We are MARRIED!	Friends and family coming up to congratulate us - my sister, Steve's brother Marshall	Congratulations!!
Steven's brother Eddie & his family with Aunt Pat	The wonderful stars and artist trading cards - thank you all!	Steven and Garth add some stars!	Everyone enjoyed these decorations
Nora, Steven and Joanne with the stars	The STARS! Marla & Decklin get busy, thank you!	Lenna's dad with Steven & Lenna for the wedding toasts	Steven and Lenna listen to Kathy and Garth's toasts
The moon and star canvases!	We displayed the canvases on the mantle too	My son Dallas with Sarah	Aslynn and my son Decklin
My sons Decklin and Dallas with Steven and I	I made my own wedding dress and stamped the dress and Steven's vest!	Our Chef, Ani, made Moon and Star cookies to go with our theme	Lenna's family
Dallas!	Decklin & Lenna	Lenna with Claudia Rose	with Roux and friends
Having fun . . .	My nephews with me	Garth and Nora, longtime friends of ours	My mom, Sherri, and Chris
Steven, pretending to cut the cake with my friends!	Lenna, with her mom & dad and sister Kathy	Dallas again, with his mom	my nephew dale entertained us!
Steven's family	When Steven and I really did cut the cake!	My fabulous STAR TEAM! Claudia, Chris & Marla - THANK you!	Steven and Lenna with Lenna's mom & dad
the happy couple!	A close up of the back of Steven's vest ~ Lenna stamped it to match her dress	my wedding shoes! Stamped with permanent ink.	Jackie, Eddie & Marshall say goodnite!
what a night!	The day after the wedding - we are tired and so happy!!	we are married!	June 11, 2005

Steven and I sat down and wrote this story together for our wedding program . . . . .  

The Story of Steven Deming and Lenna Andrews

Back in 1972, when Steven was 16 years old, he had two close friends, Garth and John. Lenna was Garth's girlfriend back then, but Steven had a crush on her (and she never knew this). Garth and Lenna's time together was brief. A few years later Lenna started seeing John, and they got married in 1978.  John, Lenna, Garth, and Steven all shared a house together in Farmington, CT for a year, in 1980 (Steven still had a crush on her, and Lenna still didn't know this!). Soon after that, John and Lenna bought his father's house, moved, and they started their own family.

Meanwhile, in 1984, Steven married Nancy, his wife of 15 years. Steven and Garth used to stop by John and Lenna's and saw their kids, Decklin and Dallas growing up, but eventually they lost touch with them other than a few meetings here and there. Steven and Nancy divorced in 1999.

Fast forward to 2004. The bad news is that things did not work out for Lenna and John. They became separated after 26 years with plans for divorce. Around the same time, Lenna found out through Garth that Steven was divorced, which she did not know. On October 25th, 2004, Lenna called Steven at work. She had visited him there four or five years earlier and thought he was probably still working at the same place.

 Steven was certainly unprepared for a call from Lenna out of the blue with the news that John had left her and they were divorcing, but he leapt at the opportunity to reconnect with Lenna. They started emailing back and forth and got together to walk their dogs and just to talk, and to go to NY to visit Garth and his wife Nora. In just three weeks, with *ONLY* three hundred emails and lots of phone calls between them, Steve & Lenna realized that they were in love! Although some people understandably questioned this at first, Steven and Lenna knew in their hearts that they were meant to be together. The moon was out a lot then and they found themselves thanking their lucky stars that they had found each other again. Hence our theme! Thank you for being here today to celebrate with us.

  P.S. Steven still has a crush on Lenna  . . . . . . .

                                            . . . . . but NOW she knows! 

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In December of 2004, Garth found this photo in a drawer and sent it to Steven & Lenna. The photo was taken in May 1980, when we all lived together in a house in Farmington.

Garth gave the photo an interesting title before he sent it: 

 Lenna's Boyfriends  ;  ) we love it!

:  ) thanks Garthy, for sending this! xo