Love among the prescription bottles

OUR LAGUNA

Allison Ann Terry and Flynn Patrick Baglin will exchange wedding

vows Saturday evening at the Coto de Caza Golf & Raquet Club.

Baglin is the son of Faye and Mayor Wayne Baglin. Terry is the

daughter of Carol and John Terry of Coto de Caza.

Many Laguna residents who don’t recognize the names of the young

couple would know their faces. They worked together for five years at

Laguna’s Sav-on Drugs.

Their romance began at Sav-on, according Sarah Hanson, Terry’s

best friend since the third grade, her maid of honor and historian of

their romance.

Here’s the story as told by Hanson: Terry’s father suggested she

take a summer job at Sav-on after she graduated from high school in

1993, just to get a taste of pharmacy as a possible career.

“Allison resisted, thinking the pharmacy sounded drab,” Hanson

said.

With images of pharmacists wearing pocket protectors and eating

meals consisting entirely of broccoli, Terry and her mother went

shopping at the store. As Terry sauntered through the store, she

spotted a pharmacy technician.

“He didn’t seem drab at all,” Hanson said.

In fact, he had a certain cool that couldn’t be squelched even by

the possibility that he ate broccoli. That night Terry told her

father that would be interested in the pharmacy job.

Both Terry and Baglin were involved with others, but they

developed a deep friendship.

“Flynn confided in Allison in a way he wouldn’t with either his

girlfriend or one of the guys,” Hanson said.

The friendship flourished, but early in 1998, Baglin left Sav-on

to pursue his dream of a career as a stunt driver and making

automobile commercials.

In September of that year, Terry entered Western University to

become a pharmacist.

A year later, Terry and Baglin broke off long-time relationships

with others. Serendipitously, the two showed up one night at the

Laguna Beach Brewery. The meeting brought back fond memories.

“It had been a long time since they had spent time together,”

Hanson said. “They had both matured. They were both single. And the

magic was still there.”

Before the evening was over, Baglin invited Terry to a car rally

at Laughlin, Nev.

“Allison told her friends the trip included intense courting and

flirting,” Hanson said.

But most of all, Allison and Flynn had a great time together. Six

months later they moved in together.

“Really, it was silly that two individuals that were so clearly in

love took so long to make the big leap, but they were both hesitant

to jeopardize such a great friendship,” Hanson said.

Rumors that Baglin had ordered a custom-made “engagement-type”

ring for Terry’s 26th birthday were rife, but no ring was presented

then or on the vacation four months later at Club Med. Finally, Terry

asked Baglin about marriage. He refused to discuss it. She was

crushed.

Of course, Baglin had been planning to ask Terry to marry him even

before her birthday, but the ring wasn’t ready. He felt badly about

dodging her question, but was determined to surprise her with the

ring. He picked it up Oct. 9 and popped the question that night.

No question about the answer.

The wedding party will include Baglin’s sister, Whitney Hart;

Terry’s brothers, John and Robert; best man Stacy Hochnandel and

groomsman Peter Kreder, both of whom attended Laguna Beach High

School with Baglin.

After honeymooning in Bora Bora, Terry and Baglin will make their

home in Mission Viejo.

ARRIVEDERCHI LAGUNA

Wayne and Faye Baglin got a preview of wedding festivities when

they hosted a reception this month for newlyweds Sean and Patrizia

Cook, who were married June 9 in the bride’s home town of Ozieri,

Sardinia.

Sean Cook is the son of Al and Pamela Oligino, owners of Oligino

Construction Services in Laguna, and Charles and Susan Cook of

Portland, Ore.

Sean Cook attended Laguna Beach High School. He graduated from UC

Santa Barbara with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and earned a

master’ degree in education from Framingham State College.

Patrizia Cook is part-owner of a restaurant in Ozieri.

The couple will live in Florence, where Patrizia will continue in

the restaurant business and Sean administers an English language

program, teaches and works as a translator.

About 30 guests attended the dinner, prepared as well as hosted by

the Baglins. Guests included Barbara and Ken McMurray, AnnaMay Simms,

Jeff and Diana Christinson and Paul Card of Laguna.

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