Karen Gregory and Peter Webster
1978
Karen Gregory and Peter Webster (both BComs) met at Queen’s and married in 1980 in the Queen’s chapel with Padre Laverty presiding. The couple went out to Calgary to work in Employee Relations in the oil patch for six years before taking an extended bicycle trip in Europe and sleeping in a two-man tent every single night for 16 months. They knew they could work and do anything together after that. Wanting to work for themselves, they decided to study at LaVarenne cooking school in Paris. They were the first married couple to graduate with Grands Diplomes Culinaires. They returned to Karen’s home stompin’ grounds in a suburb of Montréal and opened their own catering business in Ste-Annede-Bellevue, called Bouquet Garni. The business is now celebrating its 20-year anniversary. Karen and Gregory have been married nearly 28 years and have three daughters, BrieAnn (18), Keesha (15) and Tareya (11).