The royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton got me thinking about weddings, so thought I would tell you a little about my weddings. They were very different.
My first wedding to Grandpa was a big affair, but not as big as Grandpa's family would have liked. I had 6 bridesmaids and 6 groomsmen. I remember all my bridesmaids but I don't remember all the groomsmen. Then I had my sister as maid of honor (although she did not return the favor when she got married). The bridesmaids wore light blue long sleeved dresses and "picture hats," which were big floppy white hats that were popular then. (My sister wore a picture hat and veil at her wedding.) I wore a long white A-line dress with long sleeves and a high neck. It was covered with lace and had little blue ribbons with a pearl sewn all over the dress. My veil was a mantilla-style and was also the train. I have a picture of it in black and white and somewhere I have my picture book.
Your Grandpa and his groomsmen wore white tuxedos. I don't remember what my mother wore, but Grammie had a dress made of pink satin and wore a pick hat. They rented practically the whole Radisson in New Hartford and Grandpa Bud brought all sorts of cold cuts and bread to have for after parties for the people from Albany.
The day before my wedding our septic tank broke and couldn't be fixed before the wedding, so we couldn't take showers at my house. I had to go to a neighbor's house to take a shower, as did my bridesmaids. What a mess. Your grandparents were very religious and had a mass brochure printed up for the wedding mass. Someone forgot to bring them from our house to the church and I wouldn't walk down the aisle until someone went back to get them and hand them out, so our wedding started about 15 minutes late.
Our reception was at a golf course club house. We had a band and a buffet. Grammie and Grandpa Bud would have preferred a sit-down dinner but my parents couldn't afford that. We were married a week after we graduated from college. It was a lot for them to afford. It was a nice reception and we left the reception to travel to our honeymoon in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. We stayed the night outside of Binghamton and then traveled the rest of the way the next day.
The place we stayed had individual suites and included meals and things to do. I got sunburned very badly the first day and was miserable the rest of the time. It was a nice honeymoon for what we could afford. We decided to keep the honeymoon cheap so we could save to buy a house.
We lived with your grandparents from June until April when we bought a house a block away from their street. It was nice to be close to them, but they always knew what we were doing as they drove by our house. We spent every Sunday with them, while Grandpa watched some ball game and I sat with Grammie. This continued even when you were born. It was very difficult to get Grandpa to go visit my parents once every month or so. They lived 100 miles away, so it wasn't far, but he didn't want to miss his time with his family on Sunday.
My second wedding was very different. There were only 3 people at our wedding before the Bandera Justice of the Peace: your mother, and Doug's brother and sister-in-law. We had lunch after at a little restaraunt in Bandera. And then I went back to work on Monday. We did go on a little honeymoon in November to Mustang Island. Doug claimed I ruined the day when I said something about a former boyfriend, even though he talked about his former wives.
So that's the story of my weddings.
My first wedding to Grandpa was a big affair, but not as big as Grandpa's family would have liked. I had 6 bridesmaids and 6 groomsmen. I remember all my bridesmaids but I don't remember all the groomsmen. Then I had my sister as maid of honor (although she did not return the favor when she got married). The bridesmaids wore light blue long sleeved dresses and "picture hats," which were big floppy white hats that were popular then. (My sister wore a picture hat and veil at her wedding.) I wore a long white A-line dress with long sleeves and a high neck. It was covered with lace and had little blue ribbons with a pearl sewn all over the dress. My veil was a mantilla-style and was also the train. I have a picture of it in black and white and somewhere I have my picture book.
Your Grandpa and his groomsmen wore white tuxedos. I don't remember what my mother wore, but Grammie had a dress made of pink satin and wore a pick hat. They rented practically the whole Radisson in New Hartford and Grandpa Bud brought all sorts of cold cuts and bread to have for after parties for the people from Albany.
The day before my wedding our septic tank broke and couldn't be fixed before the wedding, so we couldn't take showers at my house. I had to go to a neighbor's house to take a shower, as did my bridesmaids. What a mess. Your grandparents were very religious and had a mass brochure printed up for the wedding mass. Someone forgot to bring them from our house to the church and I wouldn't walk down the aisle until someone went back to get them and hand them out, so our wedding started about 15 minutes late.
Our reception was at a golf course club house. We had a band and a buffet. Grammie and Grandpa Bud would have preferred a sit-down dinner but my parents couldn't afford that. We were married a week after we graduated from college. It was a lot for them to afford. It was a nice reception and we left the reception to travel to our honeymoon in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. We stayed the night outside of Binghamton and then traveled the rest of the way the next day.
The place we stayed had individual suites and included meals and things to do. I got sunburned very badly the first day and was miserable the rest of the time. It was a nice honeymoon for what we could afford. We decided to keep the honeymoon cheap so we could save to buy a house.
We lived with your grandparents from June until April when we bought a house a block away from their street. It was nice to be close to them, but they always knew what we were doing as they drove by our house. We spent every Sunday with them, while Grandpa watched some ball game and I sat with Grammie. This continued even when you were born. It was very difficult to get Grandpa to go visit my parents once every month or so. They lived 100 miles away, so it wasn't far, but he didn't want to miss his time with his family on Sunday.
My second wedding was very different. There were only 3 people at our wedding before the Bandera Justice of the Peace: your mother, and Doug's brother and sister-in-law. We had lunch after at a little restaraunt in Bandera. And then I went back to work on Monday. We did go on a little honeymoon in November to Mustang Island. Doug claimed I ruined the day when I said something about a former boyfriend, even though he talked about his former wives.
So that's the story of my weddings.
