The Wedding
Ruth’s wedding announcement.
Jun 1964—Ruth enters the living room at the Kingville house for her wedding shower.
Jun 1964—Ruth looks at a gift during her wedding shower.
June 1964—Ruth at her wedding shower.
Jul 19, 1964—Ruth & Jim’s wedding license announced in the local newspaper.
Ruth & Jim’s wedding invitation.
Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, 4601 Belair Rd, Baltimore—the Verdone’s longtime church home, sitting 0.3 mile from the family’s Southern Ave house, and the location of Ruth & Jim’s wedding, reception, & many photos on Sat, Aug 1, 1964.
Mildred makes final adjustments to Ruth’s veil at the vanity in her parent’s room.
Ruth places her mother’s corsage.
Ruth places her father’s boutonniere.
Ruth receives kisses from her parents in the living room.
Ruth is joined in the Kingsville living room by her bridal party: Miriam Evans (Ruth’s best friend from college), Virginia (“Ginny”) Cameron (Warfield), Marie Verdone (Ruth’s cousin and Vera’s younger sister), and maid of honor Vera Verdone (Ruth’s cousin).
The lovely bride
Ruth, captured in a stunning silhouette.
Ruth escorted into Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church by her father.
Pat at the traditional "giving away of the bride.”
Flower girl Joyce, maid of honor Vera, Ruth, Jim & best man Bill Roemer. Bill and his wife Gertrude were active members of First Lutheran Church. They became steady influences, guiding Jim through his early years as a teacher and principal, and later supporting Jim & Ruth in their first years of marriage.
The pastor says a blessing for the couple.
Ruth & Jim walk the aisle as newlyweds.
Ruth & Jim kiss on the steps at the church entrance.
The wedding party lines the steps as Ruth & Jim make their way to the reception beneath a jubilant shower of rice, the centuries-old wish for abundance & joy.
Pat, Ruth, Jim & Mildred on the lawn between the church and reception hall.
Best man Bill Roemer, Jim, Ruth & Maid of Honor Vera Verdone outside the front doors of the church.
Verdone Family—Pat, Paul, Jim, Pat, Mildred, Donald, Ruth. Lynne, Joyce, David & Mary.
Wedding Party—Marie Verdone, Miriam Evans, Virginia Cameron, Vera Verdone, Joyce Verdone, Ruth, Jim, Bill Roemer, Chris Dunker (Jim’s friend from church), Pat & Paul.
A crowd gathers for the garter toss.
Ruth & Jim make the first slice of their lovely tiered wedding cake from Fenwick Bakery.
In 1905, not only was Pat born in Italy, it was also the year Ernest Uebersax arrived in Baltimore as an immigrant from Switzerland. In April 1913, as Pat was about to arrive in NY, Ernest married Alvena and together they started their first bakery. Changes happened, but in 1927—just before Pat relocated to Baltimore—they opened Fenwick Bakery on Fenwick Ave.
In 1952, the business was handed over to their children and this was where Ruth & Jim ordered their wedding cake in 1964. In 1971 the bakery moved to 7219 Harford Rd, which is where Ruth & Dave found it on their visit in March 2022.
Ruth & Jim’s formal Marriage Certificate.
Ruth & Jim in the back seat of best man Bill Roemer’s Buick Skylark. They used the Skylark to depart the reception so their other car remained ready for their big cross-country journey to California.
Mar 2022—Ruth & Dave revisit Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church.
