Trying to remember faces and names

Hello my name is Ken. What is yours?
I spent the weekend attending various family functions in Williams, Pitt and Baudette.
They were functions associated with cousins of my fiancee Kim Brown. As it turned out there were grads on both sides of the family so there were mini-family reunions on both the Brown and Olson sides.
We attended several gatherings where I found myself meeting some relatives for the first time and some for the second time.
However, I did not remember meeting many of them and embarrassingly they knew who I was and I had forgotten their names.
I used to experience this in my job when I first started out. Everyone knew who I was and even though I had met many people I often could not remember names. Sometimes I could remember a face.
So I had to ask for forgiveness in not remembering their names and fortunately many of them were understanding.
Now the question will be will I remember them the next time we meet at a family function.
It is amazing how many people one can meet in their life. I just wish my memory of those meet and greets was better. I hope I do better next time.
–Until then,
Ken