Wedding Memories

"Merle and I only had $33 dollars to our names
when we got married. He didn't have a ring for
me so we went to the dime store and bought one.
He put it on my finger for the ceremony and then
took it off.
We got married at the First Presbyterian Church in
Miles City. Its the same one that Ted and Peggy,
Penny and Junior, Jack and Vi got married at. Its
a pretty famous church now. I was trying to think of where
Jane and Auggie got married. I think it was in
Billings.
I don't think I had a special dress to get married in.
I didn't wear my high school graduation dress. Just
don't remember now.
Merle was a college graduate, I was a school teacher.
We made for good company.
After we got married we gave our shopping list to
several of the stores in town to bid on. We went with
the cheapest one. It was the Sawyer Store I don't remember
if they loaded our groceries for us or not.
After we picked up our groceries
we went to Otter to Merle's homestead. Merle
had an old car, it was pretty raggedy but it ran.
Merle's homestead was in the hills, it was off by itself,
just a little log cabin. You had to haul water from a spring in a barrel.
Funny way to start out a marraige, we had a good life
together" remembers Gladys.