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Wedding, 11 July 1964 |
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| The garden shot shows the family group. Neither of us recalls that any non-relatives joined us at the Temple. It was a real blessing that the Temple ceremony, as always, came without any hint of fees or fripperies: we couldn’t have afforded them. |
Don and Virginia Maynes, our summer-of-1954 hosts in Orem, kindly showed up. Not sure what to make of Don’s expression… And that looks like Myrle Roberts at the table in the background. |
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Valerie bought invitations, flowers, and refreshments with three hundred dollars from her savings. She borrowed the dress from Dean Jarman’s wife; Dean was Jim Allen’s successor as director of the Institute and Valerie’s employer. And that’s where, also for free, we held our reception. In case you were wondering where the professional photographs went, the answer is nowhere: we had none. Uncle Jim Dunaway and other friends and relatives snapped what you see.
Me, I’d have been content to elope to the Temple and then to proceed to the honeymoon without intrusive interpolations. But Mammy would’ve been distressed. Pappy would’ve had mixed feelings: he felt we were hurrying things. “In due time,” he’d recite plaintively. |
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