102 Years Ago

 

The above photo was taken 102 years ago.

It is of my maternal grandmother on her wedding day (if that wasn't obvious).  There is no wedding album (that I know of or have ever found).  I have a good idea of where it was taken.  I know the road, I'm just not sure of the house #.  It could be one of two houses (as my great grandmother lived in both; I'm not sure when she moved from one to the other.)  There are no photos of the groom (that I know of).  There are no other wedding photos that I have found.  

Maybe once upon a time there was a wedding album.  Was that a thing back in the 1920s?  If there was an album, I've never seen it or found it.  (I do have my parent's wedding album and there are tons of photos from when I got married.)  This is all that I have.

I don't know where the wedding took place.  I suspect in the house where this photo was taken.  Or maybe it was taken at the town Methodist church.  My money would be on the house.

I don't know where they went on their honeymoon.  I don't know IF there was a honeymoon.

I know shortly after they were married they moved to Chicago, IL.  Or to the Chicago, IL area; again I can't be sure.

I do know the bride and groom moved back to New Jersey approximately a year later.  They purchased a home that had been built the year they were married.  A house that was two blocks from where the photo above was taken.  A house that my grandmother would stay in until she died in December of 1994.  A house with many flaws. (What house wouldn't have many flaws after 100+ years?)  A house that I live in (sort of) and that my son wants as his own some day.  (If it's possible we'll make it happen.)

I wonder what that day was like.  Who was there?  I suspect my grandmother's two siblings and her parents (although I am not sure if her father was still alive.)  Were my grandfather's parents there?  (They lived in rural Ohio).  What about my grandfather's sister and her husband?  (I believe they lived in Virginia.)  Who else was there?  Who officiated?  What was the reception afterwards like?  Was there a reception?

All of these unknowns will remain unknown.  I regret not knowing more.  But I remain grateful for that photo taken 102 years ago today.



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