Our Wedding - 1970

My sister, Karen, Mary's Sister and Maid of Honor, Lisa, and Mary

My sister, Karen, Mary's Sister and Maid of Honor, Lisa, and Mary

Mary's parents, Horton and Betty, Mary, Rick and Rick's Parents, Alice and Carl

Rick's sister, Karen, Mary's Sister and Maid of Honor, Lisa, Mary, Rick, Bestman, Mick Fiocchi, Mary's brother, John

Mary and her dad. And...action.

Mid ceremony

While Virginia Slims cigarettes brand was telling women of the '70s how far they'd come, this was still not an uncommon pose for wedding pictures in my wife's hometown. As Mary says of this, our least liked wedding photo, "It looks like my father just sold you a used car." The reality, of course, was that I bartered six goats, two camels, a cow and a case of sacred Coors beer for her (I kept the magic beans for myself). The only handshake photo I possess, submitted for "The Handshake" theme in the Vintage Photos Theme Park, 1970.

You can open your eyes now, sweetie, it's over.

Rick and Mary cut the cake

The church

Mary's maternal grandparnts, Rufus and Stella Parkes

Leaving the church.

Karen, Lisa, Mary, Rick, Mick and John

Mary's cousins, Susan and Kay Church

Mary's brothers, John and Scott

Smiling a nevous smile as she arrives at the church