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Weddings
& Elopements HistoricalFunerals
have changed, but this wedding was old-timey by Delbert Trew
In the early
days of my youth all my country neighbors and friends had a "funeral suit" or
dress hanging in the closet. Bought and kept for that purpose, it showed utmost
respect for the deceased when worn at a funeral...
Common
Scents: Why Brides Carry Bouquets by Maggie Van Ostrand
Everybody loves
a bride. Why, women love to see one almost as much as we love to be one, especially
a June bride...
Indian Stories by
Mike Cox
Shortly before the Civil War, Indians nearly spoiled a wedding...
Early settlers
threw mega-wedding by Delbert Trew 5-13-08
Strict,
religious Mexican laws allowed for unusual ceremony
There was a time in Texas
history when our grand state still belonged to Mexico, where the law required
all Colonists to adopt the Catholic faith to become Mexican citizens... Complicating
the problem, only marriages performed by a Catholic priest were recognized...The
Tailor and the Hideaway Bride: The man who kept his wife in stitches
The
Bride, He Wore White by John Troesser
Or How Men Wed in 1953 Waco
Right
lubrication greases squeakiest of wheels by Delbert Trew
Many classic
Old West tales are similar in plot but different in location. The following tale
has been told many times with the same plot but featuring different ranches, different
characters and different tunes. The original story is probably true, but where
it happened is anybody's guess. Our version here supposedly happened on the famed
XIT Ranch... For
Better or Worse by Louise George
In their own words some of yesterday’s
brides tell about their weddings and the early days of their marriages. Texas
Panhandle in the early 1900s. Drive-up
Wedding 1906May
31, 1919: Bomber Wedding Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 5-28-13
Humor
/ Contemporary
Sabotage
by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
By the time you read this the wedding we have been
planning and working toward for the last nine months will be all over. The bride
is doing fine as I write this two days before the ceremony... MOB
vs. MOG by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
This is my first go around as Mother
of the Bride and it’s been fine so far. We’ve got the gown, got the favors, lined
up the photographer, talked to the wedding coordinator at the church. Yesterday
we lucked onto just what we were needing... Wedding
Nightmare by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
It is approximately 140 days until
the wedding and some hidden time bomb of a countdown timer in my brain must have
just kicked on. I can imagine it like a big red alarm clock – the old fashioned
kind with two bells on top – nestled snugly in the soft folds of my gray matter
tick tock, tick tocking away... Wedding
Belles by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
Older Daughter is getting married...
I learned very early on in the planning process exactly what my role will be....
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MarriageHistoricalLove
on the Frontier by Mike Cox 2-6-13
The
lanky young ranger faced a tough choice, worse than life or death: Turn in his
badge or lose the woman he loved. Till
Death Do Us Part by David Knape 1-22-13Widows
by Death by Mike Cox 10-13-11
In the summer of 1915,
when it cost just two cents to send a letter anywhere in the United States or
its territorities, the following piece of mail arrived at the offices of the Cattleman
Magazine in Fort Worth...A
stitch in time saved 9 in a girl's hope chest by Delbert Trew
5-3-11
In the American early South, young maidens were expected to know
how to sew and do embroidery in order to be classed as ladies or experienced homemakers.
Decorating with embroidery added class. Suitors were often shown the results of
efforts made by maidens enhancing their values as prospective wives...Ida
Lee by C. F. Eckhardt 2-11-11
On March 21, 1924,
Mrs. Ida Lee Daughtery of Hall, Texas, died. She was a woman of some reputation—not
as a ‘soiled dove,’ but as a devoted wife.Post-San
Jacinto Marriage Traditions in Texas by C. F. Eckhardt
11-10-10
In 1837,
but just for a short time, any man who had served honorably in the Texian army
in 1836 was entitled to a full league of land—over 4000 acres—but only if he was
married...An
Introduction of Two Persons
From "The Americanization of Edward Bok:
The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After"
“Make the world a
bit more beautiful and better because you have been in it.” Belle
Christmas by Mike Cox
No matter how she came to be called Belle Christmas,
she had a reputation as a local character long before someone dreamed up the “Keep
Austin Weird” bumper sticker... Doe
and a Bride by Mike Cox
Anyone accidentally walking up on the young couple
sitting on a wagon tongue near Brushy Creek outside Round Rock that day would
have realized they discussed something very important. Indeed, their topic had
to do with the rest of their lives. Transitions
by Mike Cox
When you take time to think about it, everything in life is in
a state of transition. Back in 1921, a young Methodist preacher assigned to the
vastness of the South Plains approached a major transition – the adjustment from
single life to being married... Reconstruction
Valentine by Mike Cox
In modern chick-flick speak, Ansel "Hance" McKinney
must have had a "fear of commitment." Before marching off to fight for the South
at the beginning of the Civil War, the 23-year-old Goliad County cattleman gave
a ring to his younger sweetheart, 15-year-old Martha Campbell...
Humor/Opinion
She
Loves Me Knot by David Knape 2-6-13How
to Deal With a Contractor If You're a Single Woman by Maggie Van Ostrand
2-9-11Lord
help me if I’ve ever got to live by myself by Peary Perry
4-28-10
Having spent a few days these past weeks
with some of my bachelor friends I can safely say that this type of life is not
good for them and I’m certain for me. I don’t think I would survive for very long
in that kind of an environment. I need help. I need help all of the time... Shoes
by Peary Perry
I’d like to discuss another subject which I believe proves
up one of the fundamental differences between men and women. Shoes...I
Fear That My Wife Is Insane by Byron Browne
I fear that my wife is insane.
There can be no other reason for her continued presence here in our home. Any
rational, right-thinking person would have been packed and gone months ago. Yet,
she stays and even finds a way to maintain a smile on that marvelous, olive-skinned
countenance of hers...Holiday
Season by Peary Perry
Anyone who has had married children or in laws of
their own should be able to identify with what I’m about to say. This time of
the year (the holiday season) puts an enormous amount of stress on family relationships...
Nine
Phrases Women Use by Peary Perry
I promise that this will be the last article
I write about my youngest son getting married... Battle
of the sexes by
Peary Perry
Anyone who has been married as long as I have can certainly relate
to what I am about to say. It really makes little difference how long you have
been married, there are always going to be daily challenges to your relationship...
Father-Son
Talk by Peary Perry
Our youngest son is getting married in a few weeks.
Men
Watch Survivorman, Women Watch Holmes on Homes
by Peary Perry
I wonder if anyone has performed an extensive study on how television
has changed marriages over the past fifty years...Special
Occasion by Peary PerryKeepsakes?
by Peary Perry
I’m beginning to think the nomads and the Mongols had the best
approach…..throw everything away….keep nothing but what you need to feed yourself
and your clothes. What
happened after the move by Peary Perry
Anyone who has been married for
any length of time can identify with what I am about to say... How
Women Think or How They Don’t Think by Peary Perry
Once you’re married,
she’ll begin to collect and save things you cannot begin to imagine. You give
her a Valentines Day card? She’ll save it. Birthday cards? Never thrown away.
Mothers Day cards? She’ll keep them until she dies and then they’ll pass onto
someone else, God only knows who... Moving
by Peary Perry
After nearly twenty months we have finally sold our home and
will be moving in a week or so. I say a week or so, because it isn’t me that is
in charge of this move. It’s my wife... Happy
Trails by Elizabeth
Bussey Sowdal
By the time you read this I will be a long gone baby! Our vacation,
the first in two years (two really awful years, if you want to know), will be
well underway... “I
Now Thee Wed”, Half a Century Later…. by N. Ray Maxie
FLASHBACK TO 1957…..
We, the 1957 McLeod Longhorn seniors, each and everyone had our head full of dreams,
all twenty-one of us. Life was new and fresh for this small group of eighteen-year-old
wannabes... A
Blessed Event by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
This week Mike and I have had
a taste of what it is going to be like when our empty nest is truly and finally
empty...
Delicious Crow by Elizabeth
Bussey Sowdal
I flipped out this weekend. I lost my temper and I told my husband
everything - and I mean every single thing - that I was thinking... Subtext
by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
We have... evolved a different way of expressing
our irritation. When we are stressed out by circumstances, tired, down-trodden
and cranky we do not throw dishes or scream, "I hate you, ya big poo- head." ...
Instead we have subtexts...
The
Truth About Love by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
Here it is, the truth about
love. Some of you know it already. Some of you will read it and scoff. "Ha!" you
will say, "what does she know about it? Obviously nothing! She knows nothing about
love, real love, true love." I can hear you saying that now. And I have to tell
you two things... Man
Should Not Live Alone by Peary Perry
As I recall somewhere it is written,
"Man should not live alone." I don't remember if this is in the bible or some
other place, but as whoever wrote it (God?) was a really smart fellow, or person
(to be gender sensitive)... Men
I Wanted to Marry by Elizabeth Bussey SowdalHome
Improvement by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
"It is the strong marriage
that survives each spring without a tremor or two."Butter
Manners by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
"The women in our family can be
as sweet and mild as milk through all kinds of adversity. But everyone has their
breaking point..."Love
is in the Hair by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
"In the early years of
our marriage, romance was a challenge... "
Two
addendums to vows help marriage to last by Delbert Trew
"Unlike the
Ten Commandments, which were chiseled in stone to prevent erasure or change, marriage
vows are merely spoken. This allows these sacred promises to be forgotten, ignored,
misunderstood, changed or deleted by the modern-day theory of "doing whatever
feels good at the moment." ...‘Harmful
to Marriage' Questions by Peary Perry
"A question such as this requires
extreme diplomacy, tact and sensitivity training to answer properly. Having said
that, let me add… give it up you and I don’t have the ability to do this. If you
can, run…." 50-50
VS 110% by Peary Perry
"Marriage is not all wine and roses, sometimes
its vinegar and weeds."Fayetteville
Photographer William Tauch |
Doomed
"To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose the next
best."
- William Makepeace Thackeray. Memories
of What Might Have Been
by Mike Cox 7-28-11
After
taking one final look at the still form of his mother, Clifton Maxey Cobb discretely
pulled the old letter from his coat pocket and placed it inside her casket. Later
that December day following the services, funeral home workers covered her grave,
the last chapter of a love story dating back to Reconstruction. Six
Degrees of Separation, or, How a Mexican Star Became a Cajun Legend by Maggie
Van Ostrand
Evangeline and Gabriel
Pansy
by Mike Cox
Though her looks could have given her a shot at Hollywood, Pansy
opted for the circus world. She and her husband had a trapeze act in a traveling
show. They drew big crowds and made good money. All that changed in a moment.
...A
Gruesome Prophecy Tattooed on a Soldier’s BreastIndian
Emily by Mike Cox
One of the most romantic stories in the lore of the
Old West originated at Fort Davis. The tale has been told and retold in all media.
It’s the story of Indian Emily and goes like this: In the late 1860s, an Apache
female fell wounded in a skirmish between cavalry troops stationed at Fort Davis
and her band....The
White Lady of Rio Frio
by Linda Kirkpatrick
The love triangle of Gregorio, Maria and Anselmo
Schulenburg's
Heartbreak HotelLeaping
Lovers by Mike Cox
Knowing their love can never be, the young couple stare
at the swirling river far below. One last kiss, and then, holding hands, they
leap off the cliff, united forever in death - and legend.
Texas has at least
four landmarks known as Lover's Leaps ...Metheglin
Creek by Clay Coppedge
How the creek got its name
Old
Buddy George by George Lester
Where
are you Benny Goodenberger?
by Perry Peary
In his last letter, he wrote ”Mom, I am worried about this
trip…if, by chance anything should happen to me, there is this girl, Benny Goodenberger,
in …………, and I’d like you to tell her what happened to me.” |
| Sandhill
Crane by Bonnie
Wroblewski 2-22-11
Honored as symbols of marital fidelity
and conjugal bliss throughout Southeast Asia, the native cultures of India, and
Japan (where it is customary to adorn wedding gifts with folded origami cranes
in place of ribbons and bows), gruids have a celebrated reputation for monogamy
in folklore as well as in scientific investigations. |
MiscellaneousMy
Heart on a Sleeve by Gael Montana
"...Valentine's Day has traditionally
been the scene of massive romantic disasters around here. My husband and I even
waited to get hitched until two days afterwards to avoid that pesky dark cloud.
If you recall, Chicago has a rather grisly connection with Valentine's Day..."
The
Saddest Valentine by John Troesser
True love prevails by
Mike Cox
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