To kick this off, here's a home wedding. It has all the elements I love - friends and family pitch in to make it happen and the gathering is relaxed and joyous.
This is the wedding of my husband's mother and father - Carolyn Joyce Thomas and E. Leon Reamer, held on the lawn of her family's house in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, on the beautiful Sunday afternoon of June 1, 1947.
A family friend, Alberta, made the gown. She and Carolyn rode the bus into Harrisburg to pick out the pattern and fabric. Carolyn's father, O.D., took it upon himself to get a cake and to place blooming irises around the yard. The Methodist minister was a friend and neighbor, and his wife stood beside the couple as a bridesmaid, along with Leon's sister, Peggy. Carolyn's friend, Roberta, played music for the ceremony on a phonograph; it wafted through windows opening over the yard. Roberta's mother arrived on the bus, carrying a huge bowl of fruited jello.
The couple traveled on the train to New York City for their honeymoon. They saw the Broadway musical "Oklahoma!", went to Sardi's and took in the film "The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty."
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