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Wedding party caps a season of changes for chief McGurk
Fiscalini's top aide celebrates with made-in-the-Glen goodies
By Mary Spicuzza
Many local folks know that feisty Michelle McGurk, chief of staff for District Six Councilmember Frank Fiscalini, has a unique ability to juggle phone calls, send prompt faxes and defuse even the ugliest neighborhood brouhaha. But recently McGurk proved she also has excellent taste in planning a party. On April 17, 1999, McGurk celebrated her wedding to Charles Barry with a big bash at the historic Saratoga Foothill Club.
Even the weather cooperated with the lucky couple--the big day was held on one of the only warm and sunny Saturday afternoons this spring.
"I was so nervous," McGurk reports. "I think it was hailing the week before."
But reports are in, and folks agree that every decision was perfect--from her choice of hubby to the cake and party favors.
She met Barry, a photographer for Santa Clara University, nearly eight years ago, when she was working as a journalist and covering a reception at SCU's de Saisset Museum. And, as fate would have it, she found the perfect wedding cake--a half-chocolate mousse, half-white chocolate raspberry cake, all covered in buttercream frosting--at Julianne's Bakery on Lincoln Ave. in the heart of Willow Glen.
The generous couple also shared their joy with chocolate truffles for all the guests, courtesy of SCU's famous "Cynthia, The Truffle Lady."
Things were tough in the Glen as the happy couple honeymooned in St. Helena, taking McGurk away from town for an entire week, but everyone pulled through. And with busy McGurk back in action, change-fearing folks can rest assured that she is still on the job.
Even her name will remain the same.
"An old man told me it was a slur for drunken Irish people. But my family lived with it, and it made them tough," McGurk says proudly. "Plus, if I did change it, I'd have the same name as [Mayor Ron Gonzales'] chief of staff."
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