Reporter’s Notebook

ON LOVE AND WINE

After a week like this one, I figured we all could use a dose of happy to carry us out the door to the weekend. And there is almost nothing I love more than a good happy love story…or wine, for that matter.

I just got off the phone with David Gray, who owns Salut! Wine Co. in East Vancouver, and he had the most charming story of a couple – John Brighton and Marcia Dieter – who met five years ago at the store’s Friday night wine tastings.

As the story goes, John and Marcia watched each other for a while, wooed and inevitably decided to tie the knot. When it came time to pick a location, they decided the place they would wed would be the place they met.

The celebration will be a casual gathering of about 50 people – “good people, good wine,” Gray said – with Maryhill wines and catering by K’Syrah Catering, Wine and Bistro in Camas (owned by former Salut! business partner Kelly Bruce).

While this Sunday afternoon’s wedding is the shop’s first on-site nuptials, John and Marcia are apparently not the first couple to meet at Salut! and head down the aisle – they’re the third.

“It makes me feel like I’ve aged along with the shop,” Gray said, laughing.

Cheers to the happy couples!

-Megan Patrick-Vaughn can be reached at mpatrick@vbjusa.com