A Wedding Memory
In memory of my parents, Elmer Henry & Marvel May (Hahn) Pick
Married September 13, 1943, to July 30, 2000
It's a beautiful picture of Mom and Dad taken on their wedding day.
Mom's shoes were stylish and strappy silver sandals with 1 - 1/2" heels. Ever so thrifty, for her wedding Mom repurposed the gown (& shoes) she'd worn to Dad's fraternity shindig by adding long sleeves. (Back in the day, it was not proper for one’s wedding dress to be sleeveless!) Her headpiece was ostrich feathers. Classy!
Over the years, for safekeeping, Mom stored her love letters, wedding dress, veil/headpiece, shoes, and Dad's Army uniform in her no-longer-used steamer wardrobe trunk. This is the same trunk she carted around for her travels between her home in Cherokee County and nurses training in Sioux City, then to her first job at Sacred Heart Hospital/LeMars IA, followed by Mary Greeley Hospital/Ames IA and finally, Remsen IA in 1946. David has the uniform and Barbara, the dress. What happened to the shoes and veil with ostrich feathers? No clue. They are long gone.
The trunk no longer exists. As I recall it as being in very bad shape after Mom and Dad's passing. Having the sweet and lovely aroma of lavender/vanilla (Bath & Body Works Lavender/Vanilla is a close match to the trunk's fragrance). As little girls, my sisters and I loved playing dress-up with the wedding attire (The shoes fit me at that time!).
The love letters, an attraction found hard to resist by us, were read over & over & over! Now, seventy-eight years later I have the letters! Dad's handwriting became almost impossible to decipher toward the end of college - so much to do...so little time.
