Congratulations, Maddie and Holly!

Alumni wedding! Maddie Shellgren and Holly Young (both MA 2011) were married on May 24, 2014, in Montgomery, Vermont. Maddie and Holly met in the U of T MA program in September 2010, started dating in early 2011, and became engaged in March 2012. They are both currently at Michigan State University; Maddie is a Ph.D. student in sociolinguistics, and Holly is doing an MA in speech pathology.

A large number of U of T linguists took a road trip down to Vermont for the wedding! In attendance were Derek Denis (Ph.D.) and Alex Motut (Ph.D.); Sarah Clarke (Ph.D. 2013) and Radu Craioveanu (Ph.D.); James Byrnes (MA 2011) and Michelle Stella (BA 2010); Jim Smith (Ph.D.) and his wife Deborah; Ruth Maddeaux (MA) and her husband Barn Costello; Ross Godfrey (Ph.D.); Marisa Brook (Ph.D.); and Andrei Anghelescu (MA 2011, now at the University of British Columbia). Radu, James, Michelle, Marisa, Ross, and Andrei were all in Holly and Maddie's MA cohort in 2010-2011.

(Photos courtesy of Radu.)

Maddie & Holly's ceremony

A brief downpour after the ceremony.

Table 1: Marisa, Jim, Deborah, Alex, Derek, Ruth, Barn

Table 2: Radu, Sarah, Ross, Andrei, James, Michelle

Peering through the window.

Cake!

The whole Toronto crowd! 

(Michelle, James, Derek, Alex, Sarah, Radu, Barn, Ruth,

Holly, Maddie, Andrei, Ross, Marisa, Deborah, Jim)