Wedding Days
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Weddings are pretty special events that should receive some notice in my blog. Here’s a few words about the three weddings in our family.
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Wedding Days
Pam and I were married in the First Christian Church in Borger, Texas, on June 2, 1973 by the Reverend Kenneth Jones. My brother Craig was my best man and I remember they put Craig and I in a little room next to the church Podium area while the church was filling up. I had a nasty cut on my face where I had cut my self shaving that morning and Craig razzed me about being nervous the whole time we were in there. There was an ashtray in the room so Craig and I smoked nearly a whole pack of Cigarettes while we were waiting. They finally came and got us and we took our places. The music started and Pam’s Dad walked her down the aisle. The wedding ceremony went off with out a hitch. Everything was perfect and we were married. The reception was held right there in the church with punch and cake. When the reception was over, we headed for home, changed clothes, picked up Pam’s little toy poodle, Monet’, and headed out for our honeymoon. It was a fantastic day for both of us.
Front row l-r Darena (maid of honor) Denise. (flower girl) Pam, Bill, Doug ( ring bearer), Craig (best man)
Back row l-r Buffalo Bob (usher), Bill ( father of bride), Kenneth ( Reverend) , Rick ( usher)
Pam’s Dad provided the real silver punch set. Here’s to you Pam may we make it last at least 50 years.
Come on Pam, we’re married now, give me a little peek.
The happily married couple beginning the first step of a long and wonderful journey together. Sometimes we get things right.
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Kristi and Carl were married in the First Baptist Church in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on May 16, 1998. They had a tuxedo wedding and I have to admit that Carl looked pretty spiffy in the monkey suit. I walked Kristi down the aisle and gave her to Carl at the altar and a really beautiful ceremony proceeded without any problems. All our friends from the Mickey Mouse Gang, the Misques and the Cuties, and the Rhythm Aces had known Kristi many years and attended her wedding along with family’s of both Carl and Kristi. A very nice reception with both cake and punch was held in the church immediately after the ceremony.
Carl and Kristi and their entourage. That’s Tamara next to Kristi and Carls brothers Pat and Jim next to him.
This is the happy pappy and the nervous bride getting ready to walk down the aisle.
That’s me, Pam and the happy bride and groom, Kristi and Carl just after vows were exchanged.
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I had leased the American Legion Hall for a wedding after party that night. The package came complete with wine, two kegs of beer, and champagne to toast the bride plus a bartender that turned out to be a nice looking young lady. I set up my sound system and brought my 45 rpm records to play music for dancing and playing during the evening. My daughter Tamara and I had collected a bunch of old pictures of Carl and Kristi and had them transferred to slides for a slide show. We put them in chronological order and picked out appropriate music for each slide to make the show fun. For instance there was a picture of Kristi as a girl standing in tulips and we paired Tiny Tim’s “Tip Toe Through The Tulips With Me” to that picture. There was a picture of Carl as a Boy Scout and we paired “Camp Granada” with the line ” Hello mudder, hello fadder, here I am at Camp Granada” to that picture. It was a fun show and everyone enjoyed it.
We did a lot of country two stepping, we clogged to “Old Time Rock And Roll”, we did one of those do your own thing dances where the end dancers peel off and dance down the middle of two lines to “Chain, Chain. Chain” by Aretha Franklin, and the guys all did the Fred Shuffle to “Keep Your Hands To Yourself” by “The Georgia Satellites” with Carl right square in the middle of the Pack. Later in the evening I got my dance with the new Bride to a George Strait two stepping song which I dearly loved. Towards the end we toasted the Bride and Groom and sent them on their honeymoon. It was a great night that was enjoyed by all.
That’s Carl at the after party in the blue dew rag doing the Fred Shuffle dance. Looks like he’s hammering it pretty hard.
That’s old Bill two stepping with the newly wed bride, Kristi. We were cutting a rug!
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Tamara and Wayco were married at a beautiful Las Colonas Country Club in Dallas, Texas, on September 17, 2005. All friends who traveled to the wedding stayed at a nearby motel. Their wedding was also a Tuxedo wedding. Wayco looked very good in the tux also since I had never seen him dressed up before. There were members of the Mickey Mouse Gang and the Rhythm Aces attending this wedding also along with friends and family. I walked Tamara down the aisle in a beautiful room and gave her to Wayco. The ceremony was a little different as they had planned some events during the wedding to make it more exciting including handing out noise makers and confetti to be set off when the “You may kiss the bride came up.” It was fun, but the ceremony was just excellent. The wedding participants up front had started on the champagne in the waiting room so everyone was in the mood to have a good time. I couldn’t find a picture of Tamara and Wayco’s Entourage but I will add if later if I get access to one.
The newly weds and two sets of happy parents. l-r Bill, Pam, Tamara, Wayco, Carole, Jeff.
Tamara, Bill, Pam, and Kristi on the veranda overlooking the beautiful country club.
Tamara and Wayco toasting their love in the moonlight with the Dallas city lights behind them.
Following the wedding ceremony, we all moved into a big room next door with about 20 large round tables and a dance floor up front. There was a buffet dinner set up next door and we all went through the line and ate a wonderful meal. The bar was set up at the back of the big room with just about anything you wanted to drink including my favorite beer Heinekens. Wayco had made a list of music they waned to dance to at the wedding and hired a DJ to play the music and the after party began. Tamara, Wayco, and their friends did some really wild dancing to their favorite songs which was very entertaining. They did some fun skits later. Along about 10 PM Tamara called me up to the dance floor and we did a clog dance to the song “When My Daddy Danced” by Gene Watson. I just loved doing the dance with her. A little later, Gary, Casey, and I got up and put on our dew rags which were the cloth dinner napkins and did the Fred Shuffle at Tamara’s wedding also to fulfill the tradition. The bride and groom had been toasted many times during the night and we left the party about midnight with things still a popping.
Wayco getting ready to kiss his new bride at the wedding. How sweet.
Tamara and I doing a clog routine to “When My Daddy Danced”. This was a very special part of the evening for me. We were right in step together.
Thanks for reading Wedding Days,
Bill
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