My wedding invitation for e-mails.

Bruce/Youngwook Park & Peter Allen Reich

Wish to Invite You to our Wedding and Banquet

(And Talent Show and Fund-Raising Event!)

Saturday, September 12th, 2009 at 6 p.m.

at the

University of Toronto Faculty Club

41 Willcocks Street

Toronto on

Please R.S.V.P. via return email;

no paper invitation will be sent.

Gifts: Please, no presents; at this stage in our lives we do not need or want or have room in our condo for more “stuff”. Instead, if you want and can afford to do so, we would be pleased for you to make contributions to charities, but not to a charity that you would normally give to, but rather to one or more charities near to the heart of others attending the wedding. Those of you who have connections to particular charities, we would like you to tell the rest of us about your charity. All presenters will be guaranteed a minimum $100 donation to their charity. (Does this make the cost of your travel as well as that of the gift(s) tax deductable? Check with your accountant!)

Entertainment: We are pleased to know such a wonderful variety of good and

talented people. We would love those of you who can, as a personal gift to us, to perform at our wedding. Sing, dance, PowerPoint show of your art or photography,limerick recital, whatever. Please let us know what you will do and how much time it will take so we can organize the show!

Dress: It is not necessary to dress in formal attire; dress casual; better yet, dress zany! Wear what you might to a costume party or on Halloween or on stage if you are a thespian. Into leather or rubber or scuba diving or line dancing or mountainclimbing or horseback riding or drag? Does your work require a uniform or clerical collar or a medical/lab coat or academic or judicial robes and/or a wig? Wear whatever you think would be fun.

Wait ’til you see what we are wearing!

Okay, there are limits. Some friends are nudists. Attention all: whatever you wear, don't expose any body part that, if shown on CBS, NBC or ABC, would be pixilated or cause complaints to the FCC. (American examples are used here, since Canadian TVis considerably more liberal; details given upon request.)

Handicap issues: Our venue has an entrance ramp and is all on one floor. Please do not wear perfume or perfumed products; one guest needs air as free of such odours as possible.

Food issues: Please let us know what foods you are allergic to or hate. We expect to have perhaps three alternatives; one vegetarian, one seafood, and one meat (but not Kosher [ כָּשֵׁר ] or Halal [ حلال ]). Let us know so we can plan around these problems; we will solicit your choices of our three selections at a later time.

Accommodations: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Sheraton Centre

Downtown Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto, on, M5H 2M9, 1 800 325 3535

(local phone 416 361 1000). The hotel is 2.3 km (= 1.4 mi.) from the Faculty Club.

Unfortunately, our wedding is scheduled the same week as the Toronto Film

Festival and a major convention, so room rates around the city are not cheap; the rates are $189 (+ tax = $213.57) per night, which includes breakfast. Specify the Reich Park wedding for that rate. All prices are in Canadian funds.

I have chosen this hotel because it has a good number of handicap rooms (specify one of these if appropriate) and it is connected to the extensive underground PATH system and very close to the Eaton Centre and many restaurants and coffee shops.

Parking: If you bring or rent a car, hotel valet parking is $40/day with in/out

privileges, but one can park across the street (connected by tunnel) under City Hall or $20 (daytime max plus evening flat rate) on a weekday, $12 ($6 day; $6 evening) on Saturday, and $6 on Sunday (but no in/out privileges). At the Faculty Club,parking is available for four cars for handicapped individuals on the property; street parking is available for others; there is a charge for the first three hours; it is free after 9 p.m.

Arrival by air: Toronto International Airport runs an Airport Express bus from the airport to the downtown hotels, including the Sheraton. It runs every half hour and costs $19.95/person one way, $32.95/person round trip.

Taxis cost about $55 (more during rush hour, when the trip takes longer); limos cost a flat rate of $65, not counting tips.

The cheapest way to travel from the airport, and throughout Toronto, is to take public transit; take TTC bus 192, known as the “Airport Rocket”, to Kipling Station,transfer to the subway train East to Yonge; transfer to the southbound train to Queen Street. From there one can walk to the Sheraton without going outside (in case of inclement weather) by walking through the Hudson Bay Department Store(ask directions once in the store; be aware that there are stairs to dip under a street along the path). The cash fare is $2.75 Canadian (5 for $11.25) for adults and $1.85(5 for $7.50) for Senior Citizens (65 and over). one can obtain Canadian money athe airport. one must have exact change; bus drivers do not give change.Unlike Montreal, you don’t have to obtain a special identification card to get the Senior Citizen rate; they use the honour system. A direct link from the airport to downtown is under construction; but we wanted to get married before it is finished.

The following map shows the Faculty Club (A) and the Sheraton (B).

To take public transit to the Faculty Club from the hotel, get on the Queen Street streetcar westbound, asking for a transfer from the driver when paying your fare. Exit at Spadina, and get on the Spadina streetcar northbound (showing the driver your transfer), exiting at or near Willcocks.

Crossing the border: Americans: don’t forget that you need a passport to get back into the U.S., and thus to get into Canada. And if you undergo medical testing that involves intake of radioactive materials, you must carry a letter from the medical lab to that effect, otherwise, you may be stopped at the border on your way back by Geiger counter checks. We are not kidding! The U.S. is worried about people illegally importing radioactive materials by swallowing condoms containing them!