Sixty-one years!?! Where does the time go?
John's grandfather, with whom I am exchanging an air kiss here, and his wife had just celebrated their fiftieth anniversary a few days before our wedding. Back then, I thought they were really old . . .
The reception was held at my maternal grandparents' house, which had, in 1941, been the scene of my parents' wedding, and the wedding cake was a duplicate of theirs, baked by the same lady and in the same cake pan.
Of course there were little silver dishes of homemade butter mints on the table. It wouldn't have been a real wedding without them -- at least, that's what my mother and grandmother seemed to think.
Between mothers and grandmothers and the mandates of the Episcopal Church, John and I were swept away on a tide of This Is How It's Done -- lots of carrying on that, in retrospect, seems hard to believe.
Long ago and a galaxy far away. But it seems to have worked so far.
Of course there were little silver dishes of homemade butter mints on the table. It wouldn't have been a real wedding without them -- at least, that's what my mother and grandmother seemed to think.
Between mothers and grandmothers and the mandates of the Episcopal Church, John and I were swept away on a tide of This Is How It's Done -- lots of carrying on that, in retrospect, seems hard to believe.
Long ago and a galaxy far away. But it seems to have worked so far.
9 comments:
Congratulations. It is possible that it will continue to work. 🎇
Happy Anniversary to you and John! You were a beautiful bride and what a lovely veil and bouquet. Do you still have the dress?
Happy anniversary. You looked like the young Elizabeth Taylor!
I do still have the dress packed away. I offered it to various family members when they ere marrying. but no takers.
Happy anniversary, kids!💖
Congratulations John and Vicki.
Happiest of anniversaries to you all...who don't look a bit like hippies...that was to come! Today's my father's birth anniversary as well. An auspicious date. Maybe Josie will like the dress...
I still remember that evening, Vicki and John.....Susan T
Susan--I loved that you were there!
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