[Magdalen] Wedding Advice

[Lynn Ronkainen]

My parent's wedding pictures were taken in the lobby at the Toledo JP's 
office. My  mom was wearing a stylish suit and my dad was also dressed 
nicely. Pix w/ and w/out their good friends who were their witnesses.  It 
was a second marriage for my mom (the first one was in 'the church' and 
involved many photos, none of which I have ever seen as that was once the 
secret of the century - after her divorce she asked all her sisters to 
destroy the photos...) On my recent trip to MI, I visited with a cousin, old 
enough to remember mom's first husband, and she told me none of the sisters 
destroyed the photos... and we shared family secrets we each knew about each 
other but had not ever talked about in detail or gotten the 'facts straight' 
within our own immediate family... I had inadvertently discovered my divorce 
when a teenager - knew she knew I knew - but we did not talk about it for 20 
years.  Life is funny sometimes.
Partly this was why I smiled when I saw the bible quote on the JP/county 
clerk's license form.

Lynn


website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2015 2:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Wedding Advice

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> In a message dated 9/5/2015 2:31:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> houstonklr at gmail.com writes:
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> I  stumbled across my parents marriage license, circa 1949 yesterday while
> going through files...>>>>>>
> My parents were married in 1934 in my mother's home parish,
> the cavernous Concordia Lutheran Church, Superior, Wisconsin.
>
> Several witnesses, including my Aunt Gladys, her matron of honor,
> verified that there were wedding pictures taken.  I never saw  any
> of them.
>
> My mother was very funny about such pictures, and when queried,
> smiled and changed the subject.  Perhaps a year before mother  died
> in 1998, I really tried to get some explanation out of her about  these
> pictures, and she got quite irritated, and made it quite clear that  this
> was not an acceptable subject.
>
> Nonetheless, when we emptied out the house in NW Wisconsin after
> her death, we all sort of expected the pictures would turn up,  especially
> while clearing out her extended walk-in bedroom closet.  It was not  to
> be.  We found no pictures.
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> David Strang.
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