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Message: [QUOTE="Bliss, post: 2071829, member: 6630"] Wife and I have been married nearly 60 years now. Being from a rural midwest town, her parents insisted upon a "big" wedding so that everyone could actually see their daughter was legally married and not just living with me. Yeah, seriously, that's how it was done then. Ceremony performed in Dad's 19th century church in August and open windows didn't really air condition the sanctuary. Her dad spent as little as he thought he could get by with - no alcohol or band at the reception which was held free of charge in the community center. I don't blame the man, though, because I probably would have done the same in his shoes. (He paid the price a few years later when another daughter had a really big-deal wedding in the city with band, bar, etc.). He paid for the honeymoon motel in the Ozarks and paid an extra $1 per night for air conditioning, bringing the daily tab to $7. Good memories and good years with the best woman I have ever personally known and who is now suffering from dementia. I'm confident, however, that she still remembers those days. [/QUOTE]