On August 25, 1885, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls married Almanzo “Manly”
Wilder. She wore a black dress she had
already been making with her mother before Almanzo proposed. The couple took a trip into De Smet, South
Dakota, and were wed in a small ceremony held in the parlor of their local
pastor. Upon returning to Laura’s parent’s
house, they were treated to a homemade chicken dinner, and Charles Ingalls,
Laura’s father, gifted the couple with a milk cow.
That’s the wedding I want.
I want it to be sweet, homemade, and very, very simple. With a guest list of fifty-ish people, I
suppose I should be slightly more grand than a dinner and a wagon ride home
with a milk cow in tow. But the
simplicity of Laura and Manly’s wedding is something I must remember and aspire
to when I feel things are getting too complicated.
And besides, I need an excuse to wear my sunbonnet!
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