Posted on 06/28/2021 7:45:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
No, that is my cousin.
Snowdrops....
Yes white wasnt popular until the Victorian era...
Poor you. That’ll teach ya.
No, I didn't see anything, though my niece and sister saw a couple of orbs outside the Crockett Hotel. I took a picture inside the Emily Morgan Hotel, that possibly contained an apparition. When you zoom in, it's not an image of a human, but I'm still not sure.
During our first night in the Menger, our smoke alarm went off, but it was a rapid beep, not like the once a minute beep when the battery goes dead. It stopped completely after 5 minutes. Hotel maintenance came up, and tested the battery...fully charged. I think a ghost messed with it, and I'm sticking to that story...lol. The maintenance told us of a few encounters he'd experienced in the year he'd been working there.
If you ever go to Tombstone, AZ, you must take the nightly ghost tour. I took a picture of my son standing in the lot next to the building where Morgan Earp was shot. The photo showed a bright orange orb over my son's right shoulder. I went back and looked several times in that spot, there was no orb to be seen.
“But I’m very old-fashioned in certain ways...”
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I believe you to be displaying a great deal of Common Sense.
My current (last, please, dear LORD) marriage is in its 33rd year.
We had a very quiet civil marriage then a blessing of the marriage.
Depending upon the circumstances of the bride (young widow, perhaps?) I can see a cream-white dress with floral colors providing the extra touch.
3rd, as was mine.....quiet is best and dignified is even better.
Some of us take several tries to get it correct.
I have no problem with ‘several tries’ - I don’t believe that we are put here to be condemned for earthly life to one or two mistakes; and I’m very glad that you finally found The One.
White is not an easy ‘color’ for most women beyond a certain young age to wear, anyway.
Cream, ivory, beige are more flattering to most.
I’ve never seen anything either; and the main ghost story from my family history was a ‘hearing’ one, not a ‘seeing’ one.
But I’m always looking, and listening :-)
Great to have a firsthand account of how cold, wet, and misty it was on one October morning in 1641.
#6. I’m a little confused. You wrote that “My brides mother was crying as we got married”.
Did you first marry your mother-in-law and then her daughter? No wonder she was crying.
These are confusing times.
I wouldn’t have married my first mother-in-law if she was the last woman on earth or any other planet. When she walked by a garden plants would die in a second, squirrels fell dead out of trees, and birds dropped like stones if within a 100 feet of her.
Never knew my long-time wife’s mother because she died very young but I heard that she was a really lovely person. She did raise her girls to be ladies, something that is lacking in many young women today.
Lots of people married cousins, back then. I and some of my relatives are modern-day results of some of those marriages, in the Tidewater.
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In the early 17th century near Goochtown, Virginia, my g.g.f.’s wife died and he remarried with his first cousin.
“Pickings” were slim in rural areas and he needed help raising his family. People knew back then knew that products from such a marriage were normal, something fairly newly “rediscovered” by science.
Problems arise after it’s done generation after generation such as the mooselimbs do.
First cousin marriage is still illegal in some states.
Love ghost stories, BUT...
I didn’t think it was common for brides to wear white until the early 20th century.
LOL! No respect I tell ya! On my wedding day I took a cab to the church. My wife’s wedding dress was in the back seat!’’.
Just saw a show on TV this week that said the white dress didn’t come about til Queen V.
A black powder pistol would have been VERY loud, and given off lots of smoke and sparks. Everyone around the shooter would have known who shot.
The church door was open and I stepped inside
I was still hoping that she changed her mind
There were beautiful roses in a bridal bouquet
But she stood at the altar in a veil of white lace
I pitied that stranger for all he could see
was their life together through eternity
My heart filled with anger when I pictured the face
Of a false hearted quitter ‘neath a veil of white lace
I reached in my pocket when the wedding was done
My hand touched the locket, then fell on the gun
It shattered the silence as it left its trace
Stains of red crimson on a veil of white lace
I walked from the church house, as I dropped the gun
But stopped on the steps, for there crossing the lawn
My sweetheart was saying she decided to wait
Death to a stranger ‘neath a veil of white lace
Death to a stranger ‘neath a veil of white lace
Yes, I think you are right that Victorian England contributed much to our culture.
Very interesting. Thanks. Did not know that white had been a sign of mourning.
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