From there my memory is somewhat cloudy for a while, but believe after that we would have returned to get dressed and head over to church around 11/11:30 for the wedding pictures.
My friend Chris, also a Journalism School student, was our official photographer and its worked well for him as he launched from that into a career in journalism at the network level! (OK, he had some other TV experience, good grades, and strong work ethic going for him as well.)
You wouldn't recognize our wedding if it had been taped and shown on 'Four Weddings' because it was pretty simple. The bride looked beautiful and it didn't matter to me or anyone else that she hadn't spent tens of thousands of dollars on the dress.
The groom and groom's men wore suits which may or may not have matched. Trinity Lutheran Church in Des Moines was the site of the wedding and our home church until we moved to South Dakota a year and a half later.
The reception was held in the 'party room' in the apartment building where Rhonda and friends rented a place - highlighted by cake and punch.
The wedding price tag was less than $2,000 - but we didn't care - we were thrilled to be married. Enjoyed the experience post-reception of driving through the McDonald's Drive Thru in our AMC Pacer (oh yeah, a cutting edge aquarium on wheels!); and on to an evening at a Bed and Breakfast in nearby Adel at the boyhood home of Bob Feller. (If you don't know who Bob is, I suggest looking him up, he was a WWII hero and Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher with the Cleveland Indians.)
Our brief honeymoon was in Kansas City, Missouri where as I recall the International Ice Skating folks had gone to the effort of staging their competition on our wedding weekend just so we could take a carriage ride through Fountain Square.
Twenty-eight years ago, the two kids in the picture had no idea what laid in store... but I think you can see that they knew (even with an inexpensive wedding), that the best of the blessings were yet to come!
Happy Anniversary, Rhonda!
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