Couple to be first to wed at museum

Staff report

SALEM

An upcoming wedding will go down in history.

Randy Vuksta and Erin Waugh will be married Saturday in a private ceremony at the Salem Historical Museum, a first for the museum.

Both graduated from Salem High School in 1978.

Vuksta and Waugh, who had not seen each other for more than 30 years, re- connected through the Internet, according to David Stratton, director of the Salem Historical Society.

He said that it will be the first marriage in the museum and added, “Hopefully, there will be many more.”

Before the ceremony, guests will take a tour of the city in the Quakertown Trolley to visit important scenes of their Salem years.

The museum was chosen for the wedding because the family is interested in music and had seen the featured exhibit “The Beat Goes On” at the museum.

The ceremony will be in the parlor. The wedding music will be provided by the newly refurbished player piano played by the society’s president, David Shivers.

Stratton said Vuksta has been living in Cincinnati and Waugh has been living in Detroit, and they had been commuting. He said the couple plans to live in Cincinnati.