Blanche finally mustered enough courage to talk to Daddy about getting married. She was afraid to ask Mama first, believing that Mama would never want any of us to marry and leave home and that Daddy would side with Mama.
As it turned out, Daddy said he knew that eventually all young people tended to wish to marry, he certainly did. We worked out what we would do about the dairy. Ethel and I can manage the milking with some help from Mack and even the little ones can help with the churning and so on. I drive the truck, drop Ethel and the young ones at school when we're done and drive the truck back home.
The wedding was beautiful. We had white dresses; Blanche all in white and Ethel and me in white with colored ribbons. We gathered all the cabbage roses that bloom so beautifully on the east side of the house for a huge rose bowl. We fashioned her a bride's bouquet of Dr. Van Fleet Roses with a cascade of sweet peas. It was too early to have gardenia corsages, which are my favorite, but sweet peas and rosebuds worked fine. We just had family there for the wedding. We'll have a big celebration on Father's Day with neighbors and relatives.
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