​Love and marriage

June - a favourite month for weddings for many years - perhaps because it was between the planting of crops and the harvest in rural communities.

In one of the first columns I sent to the “Kincardine Record,” I included a photo and quoted a few lines from the write-up in the “Kincardine Review” of my grandparents’ wedding.

Last week, while I was visiting with Aunt Evelyn, we found the clipping and read it again. Have you ever seen such a flowery description of a wedding day?

Pollock – Farrell
June 7, 1911

A very pleasing event took place on Wednesday morning last at the splendid home of Mr. and Mrs. S.H. Farrell when their second daughter, Miss Sarah, was united in marriage to Mr. Alfred Pollock. Seldom, in this neighborhood at least, has a similar service been performed under such a variety of pleasant conditions.

It was half-past nine in the morning when fifty of the near relatives of the contracting parties (there could have been a thousand without going very far out of the circle) assembled on the spacious lawn, while the bride and groom-to-be came to the verandah in response to the wedding march played on the piano by Miss Jane Farrell.

The soft sweet breezes that came panting across the meadows fanned the blushing cheeks of the happy couple who never looked so well before, and then amidst the singing of the birds and the fragrance of the flowers, the Rev. Mr. Wright pronounced them man and wife. The large number of valuable presents placed on the reception table represented the good wishes of the guests, and the esteem in which the newly wedded couple were held by them.

After dinner was over, fifteen carriages drove in a procession to the depot, where the bride and groom took the 1:30 train to Belleville and other points east. THE REVIEW tenders its congratulations.

This couple ought to make a good record in life. The bride is one of Huron’s fairest daughters, is educated and accomplished, and has every physical and intellectual qualification for the founding of a home; while the groom is one of the most progressive and successful young men we know. More than that, this union amalgamates two of the most powerful families in the township.
 

Here are Grandma and Grandpa a few years after their marriage. I wish I knew the date and location. I imagine them happily together on a Sunday afternoon outing.

– Ruth Anne Hollands Robinson
June, 2024