Throwback Thursday - Higgins/Waite Wedding

Today my friend Leslee and I went to the Genealogy Room at the Springfield Museum.  I was poking around on one of their computers which showed Springfield newspaper articles.  I put in "Higgins" (my mother's maiden name) and this popped up.

I had never seen that before.

This is their wedding picture.

They look so young.  Well, they were.  She was almost 18 and he was almost 21. 

I remember my mother telling me that they were married in her mother's church in the church parlor.

Such a long time ago....

Throwback Thursday - Our Wedding Reception

This is a picture of one of the family tables at my wedding reception.  I love this picture.  Every time I look at this picture, I wonder what my Aunt Esther (Ettie) is thinking.  Obviously my father said something that made her look at him like that.  Her expression makes me laugh.  I have always wished I knew what he said.  It is such a "sister-being-upset-with-brother" look. 

The people at the table are my father, Ettie, Aunt Lucy, my grandmother Lucy, and Uncle Ross (my mother's brother). 

My wedding reception is such a blur to me.  About the only thing that I remember is that I could not eat anything, and that Paul on one side, and Danny (best man) on the other side were eating everything in sight!

Seems like a lifetime ago!

Brian and Michele's wedding

Our friends, Carl and Gladys' son Brian got married today. He and his bride Michele were married at La Notte restaurant in East Windsor, Ct. It was a beautiful wedding. The day was sunny which was perfect seeing the ceremony was outside in the restaurant's gazebo.








This is their wedding cake. They're bikers so how perfect it this?




This is Carl and Gladys, parents of the groom.



It was a fun evening with some of our best friends.

Congratulations to Brian and Michelle!

Throwback Thursday - 1940's Bethany weddings

Today at church a friend of ours gave Paul a DVD; on it were videos of weddings in the 1940's from my church - not the whole wedding, just pictures of the bride and groom, the wedding party and whatever guests were milling about. Evidently the pastor's wife of our church at that time did the videotaping. There is no sound, just the movies. I didn't even know there were video cameras back then. Somehow this friend and her mother were in contact with the daughter of the pastor's wife and obtained them.

One of the couples was Paul's parents; they were married in 1949. I have seen this picture before, but to actually see them in a movie was so cool. You see them actually getting into the car and driving off.

Many of the couples were parents of our friends and we knew them well. Actually, one set of Toby's (my son-in-law) grandparents were on this too. It was so much fun to watch this. What a treasure to have.

When Marley saw Big Baba, she said "Oh my gosh!"

235/365 - Carissa and Andrew

Today we went to a wedding in Philadelphia. Paul's cousin, Priscilla, has four girls. Today her third daughter Carissa was married to Andrew. It was a beautiful church, beautiful service, and it was wonderful to be with family!

235-365 - Vacation, Pennsylvania for Carissa (Burgmayer) and Andrew Garcia's Wedding 8/23/2009

Today we traveled to Pennsylvania to go to Carissa Burgmayer's wedding to Andrew Garcia.  (More info in my Travel Journal 2009.)