Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, May 24, 1993 TAG: 9305240066
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder/Tribune
DATELINE: GARY, IND. LENGTH: Medium
The bridegroom, a chef, wore his hair in a ponytail. The bride, a former body builder, nearly sank into the first tee in her high heels.
"I think I need one of those divot remover things. I was sinking out there," said Cathy Ousley, 35, after exchanging vows with Raymond DesRosiers, 36, on men's tee No. 1 Saturday at the South Gleason Park Course.
About 100 guests watched City Judge Charles Graddick pronounce Ousley and DesRosiers husband and wife.
After the anticipated smooch, an onlooker yelled "Fore!"
Another 200 showed up for the reception, catered by DesRosiers at Gleason's Grill in the Park, the restaurant he has operated since last June.
"I stayed up all night cooking," DesRosiers, of Gary, said before the wedding as he nervously paced in the clubhouse. He prepared four different types of Jamaican chicken for the reception, along with an industrial-strength offering of red beans and rice, and bowls of fresh fruit.
His bride, also of Gary, arrived fashionably late in a black stretch limousine with her maid of honor and daughter, Alexandria Ousley, 12.
Neither the bride nor groom is a golf addict.
Ousley's mother, Natalie Ousley, plays regularly at South Gleason in a women's league.
She introduced the pair after becoming a regular patron of DesRosiers' restaurant.
"We just came over for dinner, and I introduced them," Natalie Ousley said. "I never thought it would end up like this, but now I have a son who can cook for me."
Cathy Ousley, a 1974 Andrean High School graduate who is the co-owner of a Gary medical transcription business, said she knew what DesRosiers, a 1975 Wallace High School graduate, looked like before they met.
"It was kismet," she said.
by CNB