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My Wedding
We were married in April 6, 1929 at the Edgewater Presbyterian Church. My father paid for the wedding and he walked me down the aisle. Coming down the isle I dropped my hanky and my good friend Marion Burr picked it up for me. We held our reception at the Edgewater Beach hotel. At that time the Edgewater was a fabulous hotel, but it has since been torn down. We had a great party with dancing and all, for about 250 people. I sat with my cousin Shirley, when I wasn’t dancing with my new husband. (Both of us talked about how much we wanted a cigarette).
We spent our first night at the Edgewater Beach, without telling anyone we were staying there. The night’s charges were $8.00 for the room and fifteen-cents for a phone call. The next morning we started our trip to Lima, Ohio where we had been invited to stay with my sister Gwen and her husband Stewart, then on to Cincinnati to visit Ken’s sister Ethel. We drove my mother’s car — a Chevy. In Cincinnati we stayed at the Gibson hotel ($5.50 per night). On the way back from Cincinnati we stopped for one night in Indianapolis at the Lincoln Hotel ($5.00 per night plus ninety cents for a long-distance call).
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Note: Edythe’s Bridal Book had the following entries about the “Wedding Journey.”
“We stayed at the Edgewater Beach hotel the first nite. Left Sunday morning about ten — arrived in Bourbon.”
The honeymoon trip was described like this:
“Edgewater Beach Hotel
Lunch Sunday, Plymouth Ind.
Bourbon, Ind. Sunday nite
Monday dinner, Forte Wayne, Ind
Lima, Ohio, Gwen’s, Stewarts; Monday to Thursday
Lunch Dayton, Ohio
Cincinnati, Gibson Hotel; Ken’s sister Ethel; Thursday to Saturday
Lincoln Hotel, Indianapolis, Ind. Saturday nite
Home: our own little apartment 6540 Glenwood Ave. Apt. 101
Sunday April 14, 1929
Breakfast Monday April 15th: grapefruit, fried eggs and bacon, toast and coffee”
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