Our new mailing (and visiting!) address is:
716 E. Chevy Chase Drive
Apartment 8
Glendale, CA 91205
and you can still reach us at our email addresses:
Ashley: mcateea@gmail.com
Brad: brad.clapper@gmail.com
Keep in Touch!
13 SepReadings from our Wedding.
7 SepA reading from Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
A reading from the poet, Mary Oliver.
Coming Home
When we are driving in the dark,
on the long road to Provincetown,
when we are weary,
when the buildings and the scrub pines lose their familiar look,
I imagine us rising from the speeding car.
I imagine us seeing everything from another place–
the top of one of the pale dunes, or the deep and nameless
fields of the sea.
And what we see is a world that cannot cherish us,
but which we cherish.
And what we see is our life moving like that
along the dark edges of everything,
headlights sweeping the blackness,
believing in a thousand fragile and unprovable things.
Looking out for sorrow,
slowing down for happiness,
making all the right turns
right down to the thumping barriers to the sea,
the swirling waves,
the narrow streets, the houses,
the past, the future,
the doorway that belongs
to you and me.
A reading from the children’s book, “I Like You,” by Sandol Stoddard Warburg
I like you and I know why.
I like you because you are a good person to like.
I like you because when I tell you something special, you know it’s special
And you remember it a long, long time.
I like you because you are a good person to like.
I like you because when I tell you something special, you know it’s special
And you remember it a long, long time.
When I think something is important
you think it’s important too
We have good ideas
When I say something funny, you laugh
I think I’m funny and you think I’m funny too
You know how to be silly
That’s why I like you
I never met anybody sillier than me till I met you
That’s because you really like me
And I really like you back
And you like me back and I like you back
And that’s the way we keep on going every day
And I like you because when I am feeling sad
You don’t always cheer me up right away
Sometimes it is better to be sad
You want to think about things
It takes time
I like you because if I am mad at you
Then you are mad at me too
It’s awful when the other person isn’t
If you find two four-leaf clovers, you give me one
If I find four, I give you two
If we only find three, we keep on looking
Sometimes we have good luck, and sometimes we don’t
I like you because I don’t know why but
Everything that happens is nicer with you
I can’t remember when I didn’t like you
It must have been lonesome then
I like you because because because
I forget why I like you but I do
So many reasons
On the 4th of July I like you because it’s the 4th of July
On the fifth of July, I like you too
See what I mean?
Even if it was the 999th of July
Even if it was August
Even if it was way down at the bottom of November
Even if it was no place particular in January
I would go on choosing you
And you would go on choosing me
Over and over again
That’s how it would happen every time
I guess I just like you because I like you.
RSVP!
16 Jul
You should be receiving your invitations soon if you haven’t already. Please make sure you look in your envelope for the RSVP post card and return it to us. Be sure to fill out your name and the number attending; a few have come back blank or partially incomplete. Thanks all! Can’t wait to see you there!
Hotel Information.
15 JulIf you’ll be travelling to Massillon for the wedding, we recommend making reservations at the Hampton Inn. It’s with in walking distance from the reception site!
Ask for the Wheeling Lake Erie rate in the Jeff Clapper block of rooms.
Hampton Inn Massillon
44 First Street, S.W.
Massillon, Ohio, 44647
Tel: 1-330-834-1144
Engagement Announcement.
17 Apr
Linda McAtee announces the engagement of her daughter, Ashley McAtee, to Brad Clapper. Brad is the son of Jeff and Amy Clapper.
Kristen Clapper will be the maid of honor. Bridesmaids are Britta Sirgo, Jessica Ballinger and Leslie Robinson.
The bride-to-be graduated from Washington High School and Ohio State University. She is employed by Astor & Black Custom Clothiers in Columbus, Ohio. The bridegroom graduated from Washington High School and Ohio State University. He works in the film industry in Los Angeles.
The wedding is planned for Aug. 27, 2011, at The Lion’s Lincoln Theater.
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