Can Craig Adams' marriage improve US/Canadian relations, lol

[nccanes]

From the Canadian Press:

Marriage, politics meet
By CP


OTTAWA -- The summer wedding of the U.S. ambassador's daughter and a Canadian hockey player is bound to be a union on many levels.

On July 26, Anne Cellucci, Ambassador Paul Cellucci's daughter, is to wed Craig Adams of Calgary, a right-winger for the Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL.

Not only will it bring together the pair, who met while studying at Harvard University, but perhaps also the interests of two neighbouring countries.

The bride's father appears to see it as a marriage of sports and politics.

Paul Cellucci said earlier this year that he can see the union helping to further relations between the two countries, who haven't always seen eye to eye.

"For me, there is no more meaningful symbol of the close and permanent nature of the ties between our two countries. I could not be more proud that my son-in-law -to-be is a Canadian citizen."

About 200 guests have been invited to the ceremony at Notre Dame Cathedral on Sussex Drive.

[talkingcanes]

From the Canadian Press:

Marriage, politics meet
By CP


OTTAWA -- The summer wedding of the U.S. ambassador's daughter and a Canadian hockey player is bound to be a union on many levels.

On July 26, Anne Cellucci, Ambassador Paul Cellucci's daughter, is to wed Craig Adams of Calgary, a right-winger for the Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL.

Not only will it bring together the pair, who met while studying at Harvard University, but perhaps also the interests of two neighbouring countries.

The bride's father appears to see it as a marriage of sports and politics.

Paul Cellucci said earlier this year that he can see the union helping to further relations between the two countries, who haven't always seen eye to eye.

"For me, there is no more meaningful symbol of the close and permanent nature of the ties between our two countries. I could not be more proud that my son-in-law -to-be is a Canadian citizen."

About 200 guests have been invited to the ceremony at Notre Dame Cathedral on Sussex Drive.

as if getting married isn't enough to make them nervous, now they have to be concerned about the effect on international relations ;) :D

[Jeff O Rocks]

Get the kleenex ready, I sent this to Paige (CRAIGADAMSTHEMAN) :sad: ;) She knew it was coming and wishes him well...I do too..hope marriage agrees with him and he plays even better than last year!! :spin:

[hyena]

hope marriage agrees with him
http://www.electrichyena.com/other/roll.gif lol. it sounds like you're talking about a burrito he ate or something. :D

best wishes to craig! http://www.electrichyena.com/other/redthumb.gif

[Stormbringer]

hope marriage agrees with him
http://www.electrichyena.com/other/roll.gif lol. it sounds like you're talking about a burrito he ate or something. :D

best wishes to craig! http://www.electrichyena.com/other/redthumb.gif

Heh regarding the burrito comment. :D Echoing the best wishes to Craig and his eventual wife. :)

[craigadamstheman]

Why don't Paul set up a meeting instead of his daughter!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[craigadamstheman]

It just is not fair!!!! There are other people that could love him also!!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[nccanes]

Stumbled on this from the National Post:

Paul Cellucci, the U.S. Ambassador, is telling friends he will not seek another term even if his friend, U.S. President George W. Bush, is re-elected in 2004. He will return to Massachusetts, where he was a Republican governor, next year. He may run for the Senate seat now held by John Kerry, a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination who, as a Vietnam war hero, is calling for U.S. troops to depart Iraq.

Today, Mr. Cellucci gives away his daughter, Anne, in a fairy-tale marriage to Craig Adams of Calgary, a hockey player with the Carolina Hurricanes, that's proving the highlight of the Ottawa season. Friends are flying in from Italy, Puerto Rico, Britain and the United States. Andrew Card, White House chief of staff, is representing President Bush. Mr. Chrétien, Bill Graham, the Foreign Minister, and Olympic skater Kristi Yamaguchi are among other guests.

[nccanes]

Oh my - and then this one from the Globe and Mail

I hope Canadian girls dream of a few more things too. :roll:

Looks like quite the event, even if George W. sent his regrets - but at least Craig has a silver serving piece with the White House logo. :laugh:

'Every Canadian girl dreams of marrying an NHL hockey player," Prime Minister Jean Chrétien once remarked to Paul Cellucci, upon hearing of the cross-border match made by the U.S. Ambassador's youngest daughter.

This, then, would be the dream wedding: Next Saturday afternoon, under the vaulted ceiling of the capital's Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica and between serenades of Panis Angelicus and Ave Maria by Canadian tenor John McDermott, Anne Garnett Cellucci, the petite 24-year-old American with Hollywood ambitions, will exchange rings with Craig Daniel Adams of Calgary, the 26-year-old forward for the Carolina Hurricanes.

A grand evening garden party -- its details revealed exclusively to The Globe and Mail -- awaits the 300 guests who received one of the handmade invitations decorated in gold ribbon.

They will dine on Canadian beef and Italian wine under a white tent staked out on the lawns of the ambassador's residence, a 32-room limestone manor that overlooks the Ottawa River in Rockcliffe. The couple of the hour will make their entrance along a pathway strewn with the multicoloured petals of 1,000 roses. A harpist will play quietly in the background. Tall glass vases of monochromatic blooms will top each table of eight. The people seated in the ivory-cushioned maple chairs around them will be a global mix of friends and family from Italy and Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom, and a dozen points across North America.

President George W. Bush sent his regrets -- with a large silver serving spoon bearing the White House Crest. But the Prime Minister will be in attendance, joining White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, several Ottawa political types such as Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham, 10 players from the Hurricanes -- including Bret Hedican and his wife, Olympic champion figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi -- and some members of the production crew from Ocean's Eleven, the George Clooney caper that employed Anne Cellucci as a production assistant.

A DVD about the couple will be shown. The dancing begins at dusk, with a play list that includes the Tragically Hip and Shania Twain. The first waltz will be a love ballad from the movie Moulin Rouge, entitled Come What May. "I will love you," Ewan MacGregor vows in the chorus, "until my dying day." Shuttles will run guests home until midnight.

Spilling the details over coffee in a sitting room at the ambassador's residence, Anne Cellucci and her mother, Jan, look awfully serene for two women in the final planning stages of what's been billed the nuptial event of the season. They are both in jeans; Anne tucks her bare feet into the corner of her highback chair and lets her mother do most of the talking.

Jan happily complies, offering how she wept when she first saw Anne in her wedding dress, how she was determined, for her daughter's sake, to keep the guest list reasonable (though, naturally, the entire hockey team was invited), how the family insisted on local vendors and a Canadian flavour to the wedding. (Jan will wear an ice-blue dress created by Vancouver designer Cathrine Regehr.) There has been, she insists, not a single snag. "We're going to sound like Suzie Sunshine Stepford women here, saying 'Everything's wonderful,' " Jan jokes. "But it really has been."

The planning began about a year ago, days after Craig proposed last summer during a trip to Ottawa, surprising Anne with a princess-cut diamond in a platinum setting. They met through friends while studying at Harvard; in Anne's second year their dorms were two floors apart. They would often eat in a group at Filippo's, a famous Italian restaurant in Boston, where Anne would take her friends upstairs to show off the mural that features her father, then the governor of Massachusetts sipping a martini among such Boston luminaries as Harry Truman, Julia Child and Larry Bird.

Later, they went alone, favouring the restaurant's specialty, maccheroni chitarra capello. Anna Forlani Frattaroli and her husband, the owners, remember thinking how good they looked together. "Sometimes in life you don't find the right person that easily," said Frattaroli. "They're just perfect for each other." By the time Anne's father accepted a posting to Ottawa, Craig was firmly in the picture; Jan said they couldn't wait to phone him with the news, and on his first visit, she gleefully took him on tour of his own capital city.

When asked their thoughts on the significance of the union, at a time when their two countries are uneasy friends, Jan calls it proof of the close personal relationships that form even during a "continuing theme of disconnect" at the national level. But Anne and Craig, who have planned a honeymoon in the British Virgin Islands, are not interested in turning their cross-border romance -- what her father has called, in a local editorial, his "personal reason for optimism" about future relations between their two counties -- into a political statement.

"Craig and I see a lot of things in the media about the tensions and stuff," says Anne, who will take the Adams name, "but we just don't feel it on a personal level."

The groom's parents, Hilary and Mike Adams, a family doctor and petroleum engineer in Calgary, didn't even know Anne was the governor's daughter when they first met her at a hockey rink at Harvard. But Dr. Adams says it was clear then why her son fell in love. The perfect word to decribe her new daughter-in-law, she says, is "vivacious."

The couple plans to live in Raleigh, North Carolina, home to the Hurricanes and where Anne has acquired her real-estate licence; eventually, she wants to produce movies.

This is a wedding, Jan stresses, planned on the strength of personal ties and the able assistance of in-house help. The ambassador's godson, Chad Yesue, designed the engagement ring, for starters; Lori Duval, an assistant at the residence, created the invitations.

The wedding dress is, naturally, a closely guarded secret; a creation of Ottawa designer Justina McCaffrey, who came recommended by the ambassador's cousin, Yolanda Cellucci, the owner of a large dress shop outside Boston. "Anne's easy to work with," says McCaffrey of her blond, size 2 client. "She's almost like modelling clay."

Only the women in the family have seen the dress. The ambassador, who has apparently joked about sending spies, has been firmly warned to keep his distance. Anne spent the first visit trying on dresses for two and a half hours, accompanied by her mother and future mother-in-law, who wept at the sight of Anne in white -- "the sob team," Jan says.

McCaffrey, who will also be attending the wedding, says the tears were her guide: "You knew you were getting close when Jan started crying."

But the bride had her own ideas. She didn't want a gown, she says, that might be hot and cumbersome at an outside wedding. The final result, which costs between $5,000 and $7,000, is a piece with some beading and crystal on the bodice that will move with her when she walks. She will wear a veil along with a teardrop diamond necklace and pointy shoes, and carry a hand-tied bouquet of white roses in different shades and sizes.

"It's kind of fairy-like, delicate and whimsical -- a water nymph feeling," McCaffrey said.

In consideration that the evening might be warm, the six bridesmaids will be dressed in one-shoulder cocktail dresses in cerise, the theme shade of the wedding, and they will carry bouquets of multicoloured roses. The groom will wear a black suit with a white silk tie -- purchased at an Ottawa mall -- and a white shirt.

Making good use of the expertise at the residence, executive chef Dino Ovcaric planned the menu. The meal will open with Kumara Peaches and Cream Mariage, the bride's favourite "chowder," renamed for the occasion. A salad of tossed greens and goat cheese mousse follows. The groom -- requesting, Anne explained, that he not go hungry -- wanted beef; the main course is Cast-Iron Seared Beef Tenderloin with Green Peppercorn Sauce.

The cake, also designed by Ovcaric, is a three-tiered confection of white and dark chocolate, covered in white icing, drizzled in ribbons of white chocolate icing, and dripping with real roses.

It will be displayed with white drapery before the fireplace in the front lobby of the residence, where dessert will be served as a pianist plays.

Each guest will receive a unique sampling of candied almond confetti imported from Italy and folded in the petals of a white netting flower. A tradition meant to bring good luck, the candies are a wedding gift from the Frattarolis. The guests, in turn, have been ringing up purchases on the wedding registry at Tiffany & Co., Bloomingdales, and the kitchen store Williams-Sonoma. The pastry brush for $7 (U.S.) is headed their way, but the couple are short on $23 tea saucers for their white Limoges porcelain place setting. And still up for grabs is the 9-inch Elsa Peretti thumbprint bowl, the most expensive item at $950.

The Roman Catholic service, which includes a reading from First Corinthians but no mass, has a personal touch; it will be perfomed by Archbishop Marcel Gervais, who privately ministered to the Ambassador and his wife in the wake of 9/11. Paul Cellucci will walk his daughter down the aisle to Pachelbel's Canon in D. The couple has picked the "least stressful vows," Anne says, where they only have to say "I do."

The guest list may be fancier than most and the setting coveted, but she is much like any bride with tea towels on her registry and one wish for her wedding: "I just want everyone to have fun."

A day, her mother observes, is just a day. When it's all over, "We'll be your typical American-Canadian family."





I sure hope to see photos of this shindig tomorrow!

[Jeff O Rocks]

Poor Craig....I bet he is lost in all this...he seems so quiet and shy!! :roll:

Hockey nerves are nothing compared to what he will be facing later on today!! :eek:

[nccanes]

Poor Craig....I bet he is lost in all this...he seems so quiet and shy!! :roll:

Hockey nerves are nothing compared to what he will be facing later on today!! :eek:

It's quite an event isn't it? Poor Craig, his fiance's dress is a national secret and he bought his tux "at an Ottawa Mall". :laugh:

[tommy]

Good grief! That sounds like one heck of a marriage ceremony!

[Stormbringer]

In the eternal words of Ben Stein, wow.... :eek:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail........ ;)

[puckin_A]

Craig isn't that shy. He came in to be interviewed by the Booster Club
the season before last and he was very outgoing and funny!!

[puckin_A]

ok, she's a size 2? I already hate her. :p

[VandyCane]

Training camp will probably seem like a walk in the park after all that! Congratulations to the happy couple.

[CzechIt]

He is probably getting married as I write this :sad:

I like the part where he requests that he not go hungry :)

Best wishes to the bride and groom.

[Stormbringer]

Echoing the best wishes and congratulations for Mr. and now Mrs. Adams. :spin:

[Canesluver]

I wonder if you can look up their registry at the Williams & Sonoma at Crabtree Mall?

[Jeff O Rocks]

Craig isn't that shy. He came in to be interviewed by the Booster Club
the season before last and he was very outgoing and funny!!

I was just referring to his demeanor when he meets the fans...very quiet and he lets you approach him...no attitude whatsoever... :spin:

[nccanes]

I'm sure every groom is a nervous wreck. This wedding sounds like the biggest thing since Celine Dion got hitched. ;)

Wonder if Luke DeCock got invited? :laugh:

[Jeff O Rocks]

Wonder if Luke DeCock got invited? :laugh:

I have my doubts Eileen, but I bet if he was there, he was asking all the women what they thought of Craig's hair!! ;)

[SouthernHockeyChick]

I wonder if you can look up their registry at the Williams & Sonoma at Crabtree Mall?

At the Mall? Who needs to go to the mall?

http://ww2.williams-sonoma.com/reg/find.cfm?src=regp
http://bloomingdale.weddingchannel.com/search_purchase/guest_view_store_bl.asp?retailer_registry_uid=3002 95598&listby=dept
http://www.tiffany.com/registry/registry_pur.asp?registryID=102909&AUTHENTICATED=1&

They've already gotten most everything from Williams Sonoma and Tiffany....still lacking a bit from Bloomies.[/url]

[StormShaman]

Bah, no fun--they didn't ask for Super Soakers! :p

[nccanes]

And now for the recaps....

OMG - they had people that came just to catch a glimpse from outside the Cathedral!

From the Edmonton Sun:

The Hurricane bride
Oohs and ahhs as ambassador's daughter marries hockey star
By MATT WOOD, SUN MEDIA

OTTAWA -- For some the lure of a star-studded wedding guest list was just too hard to resist.

Mona Riopelle came downtown from her west-end home just to catch a glimpse of Anne Cellucci, the daughter of Paul Cellucci, U.S. ambassador to Canada, on her wedding day.

"She's beautiful, lovely," said Riopelle.

"It's all so exciting. I just love weddings."

Riopelle was one of a crowd outside the Notre Dame Cathedral on Sussex Drive yesterday hoping to catch a glimpse of Cellucci before her marriage to Canadian hockey player Craig Adams.

When the bride arrived, just minutes after 3 p.m., she greeted the crowd with waves and a smile and when asked if she was nervous, let loose a little giggle.

"A little bit," she said as she made her way into the cathedral wearing a classic strapless silk gown.

On the guest list were notables such as Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Finance Minister John Manley, Foreign Minister Bill Graham, U.S. Olympic gold medallist Kristi Yamaguchi and several of Adams's teammates from the Carolina Hurricanes.

Minutes after the guests made their way inside, rain began to fall, a traditional sign of good luck.

The foul weather drove away most of the stargazers, but not Riopelle.

"The ambassador's daughter, a hockey player. It doesn't get much more interesting, does it?" she asked.

After the ceremony, the 300-plus guests were taken by bus to the U.S. ambassador's residence for dinner and dancing.

One of the ushers escorting guests under cover of umbrella to their ride was Oilers forward and childhood friend of the groom, Brad Isbister.

"It was a great ceremony," he said. "They suit each other really well."

The newlyweds met five years ago while living in the same co-ed dorm and studying at Harvard University in Boston.

While Adams skates with the Hurricanes, Cellucci has done work in Hollywood, as a production assistant on the film Ocean's Eleven, studied law at Boston College and obtained her real estate licence.

[nccanes]

From the Ottawa Citizen:

An american wedding in ottawa
A 'made in Canada' wedding for an ambassador's daughter
Nicholas Kohler
The Ottawa Citizen

Sunday, July 27, 2003

Old Lowertown collided with the American upper-crust yesterday in Ottawa's social event of the year -- the wedding of the American ambassador's daughter and a Canadian hockey player.

Anne Cellucci, the 24-year-old daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci, and 26-year-old Craig Adams, a Carolina Hurricanes right-winger from Calgary, were married yesterday afternoon at Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica.

It happened in the company of Canada's political elite, a posh Harvard University crowd and a cadre of up-and-comers from the National Hockey League.

With the 3 p.m. sky overcast and grey, the soon-to-be Mrs. Adams and her father stood within the golden chasm of the basilica, the wind slipping through the threshold and playing with the gauze of the bride's flowing train.

In her elegant white silk dress -- created by Ottawa designer Justina McCaffrey -- and holding roses of mixed hue, the smiling bride glanced past her shoulder at the dozens of well-wishers braving the growing rain to see her married.

Next to her, Mr. Cellucci, the former Massachusetts governor and proud father, beamed in his dark suit.

During the private service, performed by Archbishop Marcel Gervais, a throng of secret service men, umbrellas in hand, patrolled the mouth of the Basilica, with the Peace Tower visible atop Parliament Hill visible beyond. Mr. Cellucci's offices at the U.S. Embassy are just down Sussex Drive.

As the wedding let out, onlookers gathered on either side of the church doors and gaped as the 300 guests -- including family from as far afield as England, Wales and Italy -- marched to the limos and buses waiting to transport them to the Cellucci family's Rockcliffe reception.

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and his wife, Aline, waved as shouts rang out from the crowd. Also in the fray were Deputy Prime Minister John Manley and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bill Graham.

When Mr. and Mrs. Adams -- she has taken her husband's name -- appeared at the steps, the groom kissed his new wife on the forehead.

Leaving, they boarded a London-style red double-decker bus, stopping to show their glowing faces -- he a man with rugged hockey-player-good-looks and a white tie, she pretty and poised -- through the door for cameras.

In her ice-blue dress with matching jacket, Jan Cellucci -- the bride's mother -- dashed into her limo under a stars-and-stripes motif umbrella.

Hurricanes defenceman Bret Hedican held a firm hand under the arm of his wife, U.S. Olympic figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi -- now visibly pregnant.

Massachusetts state police officer Anthony Dichio and his wife Anna -- longtime friends of the Celluccis -- described the wedding as emotional.

"It was emotional for us," said Mrs. Dichio.

"She's like our own daughter," added her husband as he waited for the Rockcliffe-bound bus.

As the rain cleared, a bevy of hockey players and old friends of the bride and groom from Harvard University, where the couple met, stopped on the steps, joking, before setting off for the reception at the ambassador's residence, where Carolina Hurricanes colour commentator Tripp Tracy was slated to be master of ceremonies. :eek2:

A group of production staff from Oceans 11 -- the 2001 George Clooney and Brad Pitt vehicle that Mrs. Adams worked on as set production assistant -- also attended the wedding.

Ottawa onlookers skirting the church steps hesitated leaving the scene -- even after the wedding.

Why did they come?

"We wanted to see the bride," said one onlooker, Jennifer Forbes, a 21-year-old University of Ottawa student.

"We wanted to see the hockey players -- but we didn't recognize them," she added, noting: "They were really cute."

"Too much black for a mid-summer wedding," :laugh: commented Vera McCracken, a retiree who also came to view the procession. "It's the event of the year, I think," she added.

"I just thought it was beautiful," said Kate Spurr, 21.

Cécile Paquette was visiting from Montreal when she stumbled on the event by accident: "Madame Chrétien was very chic," she said.

Another bystander, Eileen O'Neill, said she came "more from the political perspective," seeking to catch a glimpse of the Canadian political figures attending the wedding.

"It must be exciting for a young couple to see that the local people are interested," she added.

The wedding's almost deliberately "Canadian" orientation -- the bride, her mother and the bridesmaids wore Canadian-designed outfits, for example -- wasn't lost on onlookers.

"Not to say home-made, but Canadian-made -- a Canadian flavour," said Mona Riopelle, a volunteer at the Ottawa Hospital's Civic campus.

Asked what the wedding of the American ambassador's daughter to a Calgary hockey player means for Canada-U.S. relations, celebrity-watcher and federal government employee Lise Anne James replied: "It's a good sign -- a very good sign."



There are numerous photos here (http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id=FA211D60-DDED-454C-B64A-B172E6B450A0), but here are a couple:

http://media.canada.com/scripts/locate.asp?id=bd0cd0e1-c095-441f-a160-3b6f42af3b30 http://media.canada.com/scripts/locate.asp?id=ac3df43c-e1e6-4c76-9a70-355b73a27415

[stewart123]

Sorry.. spent too much time organizing them..

[nccanes]

Thanks Stewart - I was too lazy. :)

[talkingcanes]

They really are a handsome couple. I hope they will be very happy.

I am only a little frightened that Tripp was the master of ceremonies. The possibilities of what he may have said bogle the mind :eek2: ;)

[jhardman]

I would have used that Amphi-Bus to leave there....go off by way of the water, then just hit the street in Ottawa somewhere and escape....

If Craig Adams can plan, execute and get through that, he can score 15-20 us this year on the fourth line.

[CzechIt]

They really are a handsome couple. I hope they will be very happy.

I am only a little frightened that Tripp was the master of ceremonies. The possibilities of what he may have said bogle the mind :eek2: ;)

that is a scary thought :eek2:

They are a cute couple, aren't they? :)

[Jeff O Rocks]

If Craig Adams can plan, execute and get through that, he can score 15-20 us this year on the fourth line.

Scoring all those goals will be a piece of cake after all that, right?? :D

Thanks for the links Eileen!

[nccanes]

At the Mall? Who needs to go to the mall?

http://ww2.williams-sonoma.com/reg/find.cfm?src=regp
http://bloomingdale.weddingchannel.com/search_purchase/guest_view_store_bl.asp?retailer_registry_uid=3002 95598&listby=dept
http://www.tiffany.com/registry/registry_pur.asp?registryID=102909&AUTHENTICATED=1&

They've already gotten most everything from Williams Sonoma and Tiffany....still lacking a bit from Bloomies.[/url]

Wow. Somehow I missed this post yesterday. First off, I hope Craig is planning to buy a new house for all this to fit (either that or it will go off into storage somewhere). And second, y'all want to chip in and buy a gift for he and Anne from letsgocanes.com? :laugh: They still need a 6-Sided Box Grater from Williams-Sonoma. :laugh: :laugh:
http://a1412.g.akamai.net/7/1412/243/0070/ww2.williams-sonoma.com/wsecimgs/images/products/203072300/E/D/s1998210-1m.jpg
It's just about the cheapest thing they registered - $17.50 :laugh:

[Jeff O Rocks]

She's Italian...must be for all that parmasean (sp?) cheese!! :D

[CzechIt]

It's just about the cheapest thing they registered - $17.50 :laugh:

Is there any reason someone needs a $10.00 can opener? :eek2: I bought mine for a $1.99 in college and I still opens cans. :D Maybe it is his hockey goodluck charm. :cool:

[puckin_A]

I am only a little frightened that Tripp was the master of ceremonies. The possibilities of what he may have said bogle the mind :eek2: ;)

LOL!