The Venue at Forest Lake

Wedding Day

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Reception

Our Wedding

Colin stepped up the bar, there was a new girl working there. He ordered his typical cocktail, a peppermint schnapps and Sprite. The girl winced and twisted her face but started the process. Colin couldn't help but blink through his examination of the bar girl. She had an autumnal sweater on that was a sort of sunset orange, a maybe pink hue, it was difficult to tell in this light. Her hair had a similar color and her skin tone was also rather like a ginger person's, probably freckled. She shoved his drink across to him saying that it was $4. Colin nodded and grabbed for his cash. He handed it over and the girl made eye contact. Feeling energetic Colin told her he liked her entire color palate. She smiled, a kind of smirk, tossed her hair, and went back to work. She must have got this kind of thing every day.

^This is definitely not how I remember meeting Colin... I was on my first ever film job "Reagan" in 2020 after moving back home to Oklahoma after living in Austin, TX for 3 years. This was deep in the thick of the Covid outbreak and so everyone on set was required to wear masks. I was in the costume shop measuring and organizing clothing and I kept seeing this tall man with nice arms coming in and out of the shop talking to our boss about military uniforms and world war 2. I recall thinking he was very smart. very well spoken and obviously someone important to the production. One night after a long day of fitting background actors in their costumes for upcoming scenes, I was given the task of finding someone named Colin and returning a tie tack to him. The tie tack was for Dennis Quaid's character who portrayed Ronald Reagan so I took this task to heart. I was so new to films I didn't even realize I should've used my walkie talkie and it would've been way easier for me. So off I went on a wild goose chase through our many sets in the masonic temple of Guthrie - asking people as I passed "have you seen Colin? I have something to give to him" and they would say.... he's in the oval office set and so on and so on. I finally locate him and he's talking to a bunch of crew members, I tap him on the shoulder and i said "are you Colin? I have this for you" he turns around and looks me up and down with beautiful blue eyes and retrieves the tie tack from me and says thank you, obviously having no idea who I was - but maybe he left wondering who the new girl on set was. (He says these days that he thought I had the most beautiful eyelashes he had ever seen). I thought he was the big man on campus - he was the propmaster after all!We added each other on social media and it turns out that we both went to school in Stillwater and had mutual friends from the bar scene. the Stonewall. Colin would make his way to my background fitting dungeon full of period clothing and would help us with the military badges and rank because of his history buff knowledge. We bonded over things like Ralph Waldo Emerson and we made each other giggle with our banter. I recall him telling me he didn't think I talked as much as I did and I told him I purely was too busy making the actors look fabulous to chat. We began talking on the phone when the production shut down for a covid outbreak. No one my age actually CALLS people! I was taken aback when he phoned me up - he told me about a podcast he had with his best friend Joshua and I told him I liked the sound of his voice. Shortly after that we began talking on the phone for days on end, for hours at a time. I felt like i was in middle school all over again, giddy. After the quarantine was over, I drove to Guthrie and we had our first date at a sushi restaurant that is tragically now a Burger King. About two weeks later, we had a soft reveal at a costume department wrap party. I knew he was special and possibly the one after a date that we had when Colin wanted to go through my closet and asked me to tell him about certain pieces that I had collected over the years - we listened to music, played dress up with my fun jackets, danced the night away and the rest was history.

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Joshua, formerly of OKC, lives in Colorado Springs near his family. He graduated from OU, was a nightclub deejay in the early 2000s, is a photographer who managed a wrestling federation. Colin and Joshua met through a mutual friend around 2009 while looking at comic books. Some of their antics include defeating a scalper to attend a Thunder-Heat game, going to Denver Comic Con together in 2016 where they talked to Jim Shooter, William Zabka, and Colin got a one-of-a-kind ink painting from Jae Lee, and Joshua told San Lee how good of friends they are. They fought a tornado in Norman and later attended Wrestlemainia in 2017 in New Orleans. From 2018 through 2022 they were the core hosts of The Mindfields Podcast. If it's cool and it happened in their lifetimes, Joshua and Colin probably like it mutually. 

Joshua Michael Torres

Luca is Colin's son who was born July 20, 2009 - forty years after the moon landing to the day. The first song Colin ever sang him was Birdhouse by They Might Be Giants right after he was born. Luca lives in Jenks, Oklahoma adjacent to Tulsa where he performs in the high school marching band with mellophone and in various school brass sections in French horn. The Pride of Jenks performed in Indianapolis in 2024 where Luca participated. He plays in Tulsa Youth Symphony. Growing up Colin and Luca spent a lot of time playing with a massive Lego city  and Luca got his dad playing Pokemon. They both like board games, playing in parks around Tulsa, going to movies, and making dinner. Luca and Maggi generally sit on either side of Colin while watching shows, cuddling him in place and like to gang up on him when they are all together. 

Luca Benjamin Warde

Aaron and Colin met each other in 2005 on a movie no one has ever seen. A lot of good friendships started that way in this market which is why they met again later in Los Angeles, living together briefly while working on a TV show no one ever saw. Then they worked on a movie no one has ever heard of. Aaron decided to go to nursing school back in Virginia while Colin kept banging his head against the wall of filmmaking. They drove across the US together when Aaron uprooted to Portland, OR in 2015. They quote Star Trek and Star Wars a lot. Watch out. 

Aaron Cosman 

Chris, yes, that's what we've been doing our whole lives, is Colin's younger brother by three years. He was in the US Army Reserve serving overseas in several places but mostly Iraq where he received a Purple Heart. He returned as contractor for Blackwater, then came home, got married and owns Finnegan's Fighting Goat, an excellent pub, in Stillwater, OK. He's a Centurion in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Colin and Chris are both Black Belts in Tae Kwan Do and Eagle Scouts in Troop 828. 

Mark Christopher Warde

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Wedding Party

Q + A

Travel

The OKC Thunder 2025-26 season starts in October! Their opener is the 21st. If you're coming in from out of town and want to catch a game there is Thunder v Pacers on Oct 23 and Thunder v Hawks on Oct 25! Both games have 6:30pm tip off times. Merch is everywhere. Parking in Bricktown gets you a little walk to the arena that is safe.

OKC THUNDER Basketball

If you're feeling introspective and are emotionally prepared for it The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum is a beautiful place to visit, built on top of a tremendous horror. There are park rangers on hand to answer questions and the museum has incredible artifacts with emotional connections to the event. The Survivor Tree outside thrives, the chair memorial is incredible. Colin has a wealth of thought on the circumstances of the attack as he has a library on the topic.

Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum

Featuring a variety of rotating exhibits, the OKC Museum of Art is a fantastic place to spend an afternoon or morning. The famous Dale Chihuly glass sculpture in the main rotunda is an unavoidable must-see first thing. There are galleries containing post-war and contemporary art, European art, decorative objects, and photography. Parking is simple and the downtown streetcars go right by.

Maggi & Colin

Maggi & Colin

Things to Do

OKC THUNDER Basketball

Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum

Oklahoma City Museum of Art