A wedding

I've been going through scrapbooks inherited from my folks. This was my parents' wedding party on April 6, 1942:

Left to right: Charles Bond (Mom's younger brother), J.L. Skaggs, Mary Elizabeth Bond, Margaret Skaggs Bond (Dad's younger sister)

On their 50^th anniversary a celebration was held in Main Hall on the former Milton College campus. This is part of what my brother wrote in the invitation:

On Thursday, April 2, 1942, a thirty year old, City College of New York mathematics teacher caught a train and headed home to spend the Easter break in Salem, West Virginia with his family and lovely fiancee.

There, faced with the certainty of military service and the uncertainty of many other aspects of life at that time, the couple decided, because people important to them might not be able to attend their scheduled June wedding, that they would be married immediately.

Having had blood tests and having located a judge, the couple respectfully requested that they be issued a license in order to carry out their plan for a weekend wedding.

The judge, unimpressed with the immediacy of their need, informed the couple that a three day wait was necessary, except in emergency cases. Finding that their case did not qualify as an emergency, as defined by this judge, a Monday wedding was planned.

On the morning of Monday, April 6, 1942, in the Salem Seventh Day Baptist Church, Mary Elizabeth Bond and James Leland Skaggs were married by the Reverend James Leroy Skaggs, with Margaret and Charles Bond as attendants. Kenneth Camenga and Richard Bond sang solos and Robert Bond ushered the small group of other family members and friends in attendance.

The rest is history...