Gloria Godat’s Surprise Wedding!

Joe Minton and Kevin Peavy attended a cocktail buffet on February 2 at Rana and Saad Chehabi’s amazing Euclid Ave. house, in honor of lovely Gloria Godat’s engagement to dashing Latin Amercian diplomat Juan Ernesto Snead. The Chehabis own Dallas-based Ancient Venetian Floor Company, so of course the tiled floors were dazzling, Minton reported, along with the beautifully crafted, French-inspired details of the house, unusual for a newly-built mega mansion. “It looks like a French embassy,” said Minton, who had been finishing dinner on the back terrace with Peavy when there was a commotion in the entrance hall: An opera singer was belting out an aria. Everyone gathered. The surprise singing was followed by surprise announcements from Snead, who, from the center of the sweeping staircase, grandly invited everyone in the room to attend their wedding (this received much applause, since it was assumed the couple would marry in Paraguay where he lives). But the wedding is right now! Snead shouted, and suddenly down the staircase came a white robed chorus of gospel singers swaying and clapping and singing, followed by a white robed minister and then Godat, who had sneaked upstairs and changed into a pair of wedding-white silk pants and a white beaded top. “This was the most memorable wedding I’ve ever been to,” gushed Peavy, who days later, was still basking in the golden glow of the night’s events. Godat and Snead will live in Paraguay, and Minton says he can’t wait to see their new apartment there.