| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
Carol Perkins: My wedding day, 25 Dec 1967 'For years, friends and family would retell the day of our wedding. Worst snow storm in years! I now smile when I think of that couple who barely knew each other following the snowplow out of town. It isn't how big or small, how perfect or imperfect a wedding day is; it is how life progresses after the I do.' The next earlier column: Carol Perkins: Only in a small town - like Edmonton By Carol Perkins Three o'clock and the snow had not stopped. Just the night before, the stars had not indicated bad weather, and the weatherman missed the call. Christmas Eve, 1967, brought one of the biggest snows of the year and created nothing but havoc for my wedding day. "You'll just have to call it off," my mother said as she flung back the curtain to reveal the stillness of the morning as the snow pelted the highway, covering tracks behind a few moving vehicles. The cake sat in the living room; the dress hung on the back of the door, and not even the snow was going to ruin this day. "We can't cancel it now!" I said. Just about that time, Guy called. "I don't think I can get there." He was staying in Barren County with his sister, Carolyn Berry and her family. His parents, stranded in Nicholasville, Kentucky, and his other sister, stranded in Bowling Green, would miss our wedding. However, the groom who had sailed the seven seas surely could find his way out of Barren County. I knew Arnold Berry would ride him out on horseback if necessary. "You MUST get here," is all I said. What I didn't know was the effort it took them to make the thirty miles. The snow was a gorgeous backdrop for my wedding day, but the obstacles it caused kept it from being the wedding of my dreams. The only family from Guy's side was his sister and brother-in-law who was the best man. No cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends from his side were able to get there. My extended family showed up because those from out of town had come the night before the wedding and the others lived within a mile of the church. My poor father cleared the steps to the church until he was exhausted and then marched me down the aisle. We were going to Louisville for our honeymoon, but that never happened. We got as far as Glasgow. Over the last forty-eight years, I have thought about that day and how our life together began. We didn't know each other very well. We had dated only a few months in high school and after graduation, Guy went to the Navy and I went to Eastern. We made no promises to each other, but we both understood our intentions. I knew I wasn't looking for anyone else; I assumed he wasn't either. We wrote letters; he came home on leave a few times a year, and we never talked about whether or not we were dating other people. I can't explain how we both knew we would eventually marry, but we did. We were so different in most things, but so alike in what mattered. For years, friends and family would retell the day of our wedding. "Worst snow storm in years!" I now smile when I think of that couple who barely knew each other following the snowplow out of town. It isn't how big or small, how perfect or imperfect a wedding day is; it is how life progresses after the "I do." After forty-nine years, we have overcome snowstorms in life and plowed through to the sunny days, but he still reminds me each year how he almost missed our wedding day! I never doubted he would arrive. (My new book, A Girl Named Connie, is available at Blossoms Florist and Boutique Unique, 507 Happy Valley Road, Glasgow, KY 42141, Phone 270-629-3597; the Edmonton/Metcalfe Chamber of Commerce, 109 E Stockton Street, Edmonton, KY, Phone 270-432-3222; and the Lighthouse Restaurant, 1500 Sulphur Well/Knob Lick Road, Sulphur Well Historic District, KY 42129. Phone 270-629-3597. And Also on Amazon.com) Contact: Carol Perkins, PO Box 134, Edmonton, KY 42129. Phone 670-432-5756. carolperkins06@gmail.com This story was posted on 2016-12-29 06:08:09
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. More articles from topic Carol Perkins:
Carol Perkins: Only in a small town - like Edmonton Carol Perkins: Parents went 'all out' for Christmas Carol Perkins: Lessons learned from husband's gifts past Carol Perkins: Being a part of church at Christmas time Carol Perkins: Historic moment in Upton, KY Carol Perkins: Trust and consequences Carol Perkins: Karaoke at Sherry's, Hiseville, KY Carol Perkins: We are all on the same team Carol Perkins: Metcalfe Countians share grief Carol Perkins: Star Power View even more articles in topic Carol Perkins |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
