family history
Mar. 2nd, 2010 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coraaI was taking to my parents this weekend, a little about wedding stuff, and my mom shared an anecdote that I'd either never heard or had forgotten.
See, my mom's side of the family has a family tradition of eloping. My great-grandparents eloped. My grandparents eloped. My aunt and uncle eloped. My other aunt and uncle eloped. My parents didn't elope, but they got married in West Berlin in 1981, so no family could make it to the wedding anyway. I think there are miscellaneous great-aunts and -uncles and cousins that also eloped.
The part I hadn't remembered was that apparently my grandfather's sisters had kept, for years, the telegram my grandfather sent from Reno:
"Married Connie. See you soon. Love, Bill."
(That's the grandmother I was named after, of course.)
See, my mom's side of the family has a family tradition of eloping. My great-grandparents eloped. My grandparents eloped. My aunt and uncle eloped. My other aunt and uncle eloped. My parents didn't elope, but they got married in West Berlin in 1981, so no family could make it to the wedding anyway. I think there are miscellaneous great-aunts and -uncles and cousins that also eloped.
The part I hadn't remembered was that apparently my grandfather's sisters had kept, for years, the telegram my grandfather sent from Reno:
"Married Connie. See you soon. Love, Bill."
(That's the grandmother I was named after, of course.)
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Date: 2010-03-12 06:50 pm (UTC)