Happy 62nd Anniversary

Happy anniversary to my parents!

Guests at the anniversary party

In the previous post I told you all about the 60th wedding anniversary party for my parents, and in this post you'll get to see the guests who attended the party. It's a really long post, but worth it if it helps us remember the day and all the people who made it special!

Charles Dodson was my parents' pastor both in Carthage and Tyler, and as such, he knew several groups of people at the party. Here he says a few words about my parents and our family.

 Janette and Dale Pair, friends of my parents from Sunday School in Tyler

Visiting at this table are the Stantons from Pecos, my cousin Sherry from San Diego, my aunt Lynnell from Gary (in east Texas), my mom's first cousin Mana Bailey from Dallas, and Mana's cousin on her other side of the family.

My niece Hillary used to work at a bakery, so she knows how to cut a wedding cake into serving sizes. Hillary has been living in Montana, got married in Scotland this summer, and will be moving with her husband to Seattle in a few days.

See more photos by clicking below where it says: "Read more."

60th Anniversary Party for my parents

My parents celebrated 60 years of marriage as of July 1, 2015. We, their children, had been planning -- for a long time -- to have an anniversary party for them to commemorate this hard-to-reach milestone. But when I became ill, we had to reschedule the party around my radiation treatment. We had the party on August 1st. We tried to invite everyone, but the invitation process was also a casualty of my radiation treatment. (Sorry if you didn't get an invitation and wanted one. We did not mean to exclude anyone.)

My parents, Wheeler and Mary Wilson, cut their 60th wedding anniversary cake. Given a choice, they went with chocolate for the cake.

 Here's the welcome table where guests signed a guest book and got name tags. 

Snacks included crackers, veggies, dips, nuts, mints, orange coconut balls, creme puffs, quiche, punch, etc.

 My sister-in-law Laura made a beautiful fruit punch.

 Here's a closer view of the cake. I just loved the way the cake looked! 

The table centerpieces had flowers, glass lanterns with candles, and photos of my parents' wedding back in 1955.

 Here's a bird's eye view of the centerpiece (at my house, not at the party).

 Guests go through the serving line to get snacks.

 One more view of the cake, because apparently I am obsessed with it.

Flowers on the cake table.

Photos of guests and festivities will be on another blog post coming up next! (It appears before this blog post.)