little resistant, but when we met, it was definitely a magical moment. He said it was like he was struck by a lightning bolt. It was hard to deny those feelings.” After returning to New York, Bob began visiting her. They quickly became a couple, and soon Bob brought Lorinda to Sargentville, Maine, where he’d made his home several years before. He’d attended college in Maine and, as a sailor, loved the coast. Lorinda had been considering moving somewhere smaller, such as Boston or Portland, but the Blue Hill Peninsula was like another world. She loved it immediately. They’d both been married before, and Lorinda wasn’t interested in repeating. “I never expected to be married again,” she said. “I was very forthcoming about that when I first met him.” Luckily, Bob didn’t listen very well. In
April 2012, while vacationing at St. Martin in the Caribbean, during a dinner with their close friends Lisa and John, Bob proposed. Lorinda’s marriage stance went out the window with her eager acceptance, and she even wanted to be married three months later in Maine. “I picked the best part of the summer in Maine,” Lorinda said. “Otherwise, we’d have waited until the following summer— and that seemed silly.” She threw herself into planning to pull it off. Their friend Andrew worked up until the day before the wedding to finish their new boat barn in Sedgwick, and friends and family from near and far pitched in to help decorate it as a wedding-reception barn until the morning of the wedding. They strung lights and hung bunting, tied flatware and set tables. They planted, strung, and arranged flowers. They ran
“I just felt ensconced by everyone’s happiness and love. It was so intimate and personalized. The warmth was incredible.” -Lorinda Toscas