Some of the family with Grandmama and Grandpapa in the Victorian Writing Room at the Greenbrier during Thanksgiving 2008. For those who care, the floral pattern is called “Fudge Apron” by Dorothy Draper, and not even Carleton Varney can tell you how she came up with that name. Kappa Prep aka Hopsy has a great photo of herself in the room as well (yes, I do need to do a Greenbrier post).
Grandmama and Grandpapa posing with my parents as Mom and Dad were about to leave on their honeymoon, July 1979.
Today is the 59th wedding anniversary of my Dad’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. JAJ, III. They were married in Panama City, Florida at 8:00pm. She wore a dress seven or eight girls in Panama City society wore, which was in the height of fashion at the time: heavy white satin with a fitted bodice, maquisette yoke (which I think is nylon), and sweetheart neckline which was traced with pearls. Her long sleeves were outlined in pearls at the points (at the wrists) and skirt, gathered from a tapered waistline. She wore a fingertip-length veil which was borrowed from my great-aunt Boots, as she and her husband couldn’t attend the wedding due to her due date for my second cousin Stephen. The veil was attached by a coronet of seed pearls and she carried an arm bouquet of white roses.
Some of the family gathered at Grandmama and Grandpapa’s house in Christmas 2004.
The song below was performed by a family friend, Leonard Geiger (who sadly died last month), at their wedding. This version is Mario Lanza doing “Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life”:
Aren’t all of these songs beautiful? They pull at my heart strings for sure! Happy Anniversary Grandmama and Grandpapa, I love you both very much!
This photo was taken at Boar’s Head Club with Grandmama and Grandpapa earlier on this year:
This is such a sweet post to do for your family. Thanks for stopping by to see me!
What a lovely and romantic post!!!!
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Love, love, love this post Miss Worthy, the photos are wonderful, and your descriptions even better, especially of your Grandmama's wedding dress.
And the musical clips…. Mario Lanza, Liszt and Jose Carreras… all favorites of my mother, and both of us here at the Prepatorium as well.
A perfect post, as always. Thank you for sharing all of the fabulosity,
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