As we peer then, beyond that looking glass, to glimpse the reality of that distant event, we should endeavour to ensure that our future marriage becomes more than a mere  6  BIS Review 91/2008  “.. triumph of hope over experience” 5 For as we navigate through today’s troubled waters, we should reflect on Harold Nicholson’s prescription for surviving such matrimony when he once opined: “The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters” Let us now together rise; I call on you to raise your glasses to our long, fruitful, disaster-free engagement, and to our absent friends.
5  Dr Samuel Johnson. BIS Review 91/2008  7