Sunday March 21, 1948 was Palm Sunday that year. My parents were married in the afternoon. It was raining buckets. There is an old Irish saying about the “happy is the bride rain fell upon”. I guess there must be some truth to that as they were married 66 & 1/2 years before my Mom passed away.
Not the best picture of them, but it was taken at my Mom’s 85th birthday party about 6 months before they celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary.
The picture above is a better picture of the two of them. It was taken some time in the 1990s. My Dad’s swim trunks are a bit short…
I wore my Mom’s wedding dress when Dave and I got married. I had the yoke and sleeves removed and lace and satin roses added to it. I also wore her pearls. At least one of her friends had worn the dress in the 1940s and my aunt also wore it when she got married in the 1950s. At one time, my Mom had calculated how many years total the people that wore the dress had been married. I don’t remember the exact number, but it was well over 150 years!
And they lived happily ever after:
My parents moved to this farmstead after they had been married one year. They lived in the big farmhouse for 52 years. They then moved into this house that we had built in the backyard and lived there together another 13 years.
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