Scenes from my Grandparents Wedding Day. These six images seem to have been given to them by someone who attended the church event and later provided them with slides. The slides themselves had "Nelsen" misspelled as "Nelson" on the cardboard frames, so I'm guessing they were shot and annotated by someone who was a friendly with them, but not related to them (or aware of my Grandfather's Norwegian nomenclature). Regardless, I'm very grateful to the photographer for the six candid and beautifully-lit snaps they took on the church steps this day.
Mother Of The Bride: Mae Costello in her Midcentury Matron Finest.
Picture Perfect: My twin cousins Lois and Dianne in their Flowergirl Frocks.
Bridesmaids and Flowergirls... Off to the reception! (Behave, ladies... Behave.)
Working backwards from about 1976, we have arrived squarely at 1950. Posting this series of images is a bit bittersweet, as these are the very last slides from the family archive. Essentially, a very large chunk of my family has just seen a large portion of their lives displayed (albeit in reverse) on the internet. These six pictures represent the endpoint of a rather broad arc of events, milestones, celebrations and journeys. I'm very glad, though, that this final post of 35mm slide scans shows the beginning of what would become my Grandparents' life as a couple (and subsequently their life as parents and grandparents). What they would go on to create in terms of family and who they would later touch in terms of friends and loved ones would end up being rather large. Thanks for EVERYTHING, Nanny and Pop... You are loved and missed, but mostly remembered and celebrated.
