Some things in life just get better with age. Take, for example, a fine bottle of Cabernet, a barrel-aged cognac, the puppy that is now house trained and your wedding reception site. Well, maybe not necessarily the latter, but for us, this was the case when we returned 13 years later to ours. On May 15, 1999, my husband and I hosted our wedding reception at The Crowne Plaza in Natick, Massachusetts. Since then the hotel has gone through a massive transformation and has recently emerged as The VERVE, owned and managed by the Distinctive Hospitality Group. The Group’s President Lou Carrier has brought his experience developing chic modern hotels in Las Vegas and Chicago to western Massachusetts and we couldn’t be happier.