M.J. Van Deventer and Rev. William Thomas Shelton were married Oct. 6th. (Photos by Helen Ford Wallace).

M.J. Van Deventer and Rev. William Thomas Shelton  were married at All Souls Episcopal Church on Oct. 6th. A reception was held in the Parish Hall. Family members of the bride and the groom were in the wedding party and daughters and granddaughters were seated preceding the ceremony.

The wedding programs and the tablecloth runners for the reception tables featured ribbons and antique buttons. The buttons were part of the bride’s button collection. The program also told the story of how the couple met in the first grade in Muskogee.

The miniature bride’s cake was vanilla creme and it was topped with fresh flowers. There were three groom’s cakes (two made by the groom). A Hummingbird Cake with pineapple, bananas, nuts, an Italian Cream cake and a chocolate mousse cake. The bride made 11 rum cakes for the reception. Some had homemade vanilla frosting and some featured nuts. All of the  cakes were made by the couple except for the chocolate one from La Baguette. Wedding punch was sparkling cider with Ginger Ale.

The couple will have homes in Muskogee and Oklahoma City.

The newly-weds…Mandi and Jason. (Photos by Helen Ford Wallace).

Mandi Sue Mayes and Jason Beeler exchanged wedding vows at St. Luke’s Methodist Church March 3rd. Rev. Bob Long officiated and he told happy stories about the couple during the ceremony and how they met.

The reception was held at Cafe Nova where tables were set around the room with bouquets of lilies on each table. A tiered table held yummy cupcakes and tables of food were set around the room. Parents of the couple are Barbara and Bud Beeler and Billie Sue and David Pyle, and James Mayes.

Don Henline, Jim and Bette MacKellar, Jayne Henline enjoy the reception.

Aunt and Mother of the groom, Kay Blake and Barbara Beeler.

Billie Sue Pyle, Barbara Beeler, Marty Conkle and Jayne Henline talk at the party.

Bud Beeler, Diana Beeler, Lucy Beeler and Kay Blake enjoy the reception.

Cindy Homsey, Erin Moore and Blake Beeler celebrate the wedding.

Charlene Kitt, Billie Sue Pyle and Gayle Luna enjoy the event.

Linda James, Heath Gilbert and Ron James talk at the reception.

Chuck Ainsworth and Blake Beeler enjoy the party.

Marty Conkle, Patty Cohenour and Diana Beeler celebrate after the wedding.

Barbara Quillian and Lela Sullivan talk at the wedding reception.

Curt and Linda Roberts, Tucker Brollier, Lauren, Steve, and Libby Steakley were at one of the parties for the Steakley-Brollier wedding. (Photo by David Faytinger).

Out-of-town guests for the wedding of Lauren Steakley and Tucker Brollier were entertained at a Mexican Fiesta in the home of Shari and Charles Buxton. Co-hosts were Gay and Ed Kirby, Anita and Phil Patterson, Billye and Jimmie Austin, Machen and Sam Daube, Kay and Bill Gustafson.

Outdoor tables were decorated with embroidered Mexican cloths.

Among the guests were Tessa and Travis Moss, Sarah and Bill Pruellage, Linda and Curt Roberts, Libby and Steve Steakley, Susan Sadler, Barbie and Bill Borlaug and Donna and Thad Brollier.

The couple was married Sept. 11^th at Christ the King Catholic Church. The reception was at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club.

Newly-weds Lauren and Tucker Brollier. They were married September 11th. (Photos by Helen Ford Wallace).

Lauren Brollier and her mother, Libby Steakley, talk at the wedding reception at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club. Lauren was married to Tucker James Brollier on September 11. (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).

The beautiful wedding cake.

The groom loves candy, so instead of a groom’s cake,  there was a table filled with all kinds of candy and monogrammed sacks were available for guests to take some home.

Steve and Libby Steakley enjoy the wedding reception of their daughter, Lauren Steakley, and Tucker Brollier.

Ed and Kaye Cook were at the Steakley-Brollier wedding at Christ the King Catholic Church and at the reception at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club

Kirk Hammons and Candy Dulaney talk at the wedding.

Rachael and Jeff Klos arrive at the wedding reception. (Photos provided).

Rachael Ann Rudeen and Jeff Klos were married June 12 at The Cathedral of Saint Paul in St. Paul, Minn. A reception followed at the James J. Hill Reference Library.

Parents of the couple are Linda and Gary Rudeen, Cottage Grove, Minn. and Linda and Tom Klos, Oklahoma City.

The bride wore a satin strapless dress with a bow in the back and a sash at the waist and she carried a bouquet of white orchids.

Matron of honor was Katie Dake and bridesmaids were Caitlin Browning, Jean Chalifoux, Allison Eagan, Keri Fee and Jennifer Klos. They wore black silk shantung dresses and carried blue, green and yellow flowers.

Patrick Garrett was best man and the groomsmen included Chris Barkley, Matthew Eagan, Blair Naifeh, Corey Mood and Jason Rudeen. Ushers were Drew Cook and Michael Tarwater. They wore yellow silk bowties.

The reception was in the three story library where place cards for the guests were in the shape of library return cards. The cards also had the name of a classic love story book which was placed on each table so guest could find their seats.

Cupcakes set on tiers were the wedding cakes. Music was by Metro Jam.

The bride’s family serenaded the couple with a performance of “Oklahoma” and they wore cowboy hats for the song.

The groom’ parents hosted a dinner on the night before the wedding on the Paradise Charter River Cruise Boat. Nautical-themed decorations were on the boat and party favors were Swedish Fish candles personalized with the phrase “You’re a Reel Catch.”

The couple at the rehearsal dinner.

Rachael and Jeff enjoy the reception.

Oklahoma City guests have fun at the wedding reception.

Parents of the bridegroom….Linda and Tom Klos.

Parents of the bride….Gary and Linda Rudeen.

Jeff and Tom Klos at the reception.

The library…scene of the wedding reception.

Wedding cupcakes.

Library place cards for the guests.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Robert Klos.

Jeff and Rachael Klos, Allison Eagan, and Jennifer Klos were at the party. (Photos provided).

Rachael and Jeff Klos who were married June 12 in St. Paul, Minn. were honored at a party at the Chesapeake Boathouse  on June 24. Linda and Tom Klos, Jeff’s parents, were hosts for the event on the Oklahoma River.

Music was by C+  and guests enjoyed boat rides on the Oklahoma River Cruise Boat.

Green cloths were on the tables with blue, white and green flowers, set in a nautical theme.

Among the guests were Linda and Gary Rudeen, Mita and Bob Bates, Sarah Bates, Rene and Bill Vassar, Emily and Chad Reynolds, Meridith and Tad Cassidy, Hayden and Michael Smith, Mihaela and Mark Goodman, Joe Ann and Alan Terrill, Nancy and Jim Berry, Candy and Chuck Ainsworth, Jane and Sandy Elliott, Megan and Neil Stanek and Jeanne and Randy Polk.

John Crittenden, Rachael Klos, Cindy Crittenden, and Jeff Klos celebrate the wedding.

Hosts Tom and Linda Klos welcome Jeff and Rachael Klos, Linda and Gary Rudeen to the party.

Laurie Hyde, Robert and Marty Margo have fun on the Oklahoma River.

Rachael Klos, Mike and Jeary Seikel, and Jeff Klos talk at the event.

Carrie and Mark Floyd. (Photos by Helen Ford Wallace).

Carrie Lawler and Mark Floyd were married in Norman June 18th at Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church.

The reception was at the University of Oklahoma Memorial Union in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom where beautiful flowers decorated the tables and guests enjoyed dinner and dancing.

The bride’s cake was topped with her new initial “F.”

The bride’s cake.

Frances Sanger and Lois Brown, mother of the bride, talk during the reception.

First dance at the reception.

Beautiful flowers.

Helen talks with Party planner Judy Lehmbeck about summer weddings.

Katie and Luke Cunningham. (Photos by Helen Ford Wallace).

Katie Griffin and Luke Cunningham were married June 5th at Westminster Presbyterian Church.

The reception was at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club where beautiful flowers decorated the tables, the chandeliers and the bar areas.

Katie’s dress was strapless silk organza accented with grosgrain ribbons. She carried a bouquet of white roses, orchids and peonies. The bridesmaids wore taupe colored silk shantung dresses and carried peach and white roses.

Mother of the bride, Kathy Griffin, wore a silk tweed dress with taupe, silver and copper strands and mother of the groom Madeleine Cunningham-Lerner wore a hot pink silk dress with ruffles.

The wedding cake.

Mother of the bride Kathy Griffin and Alison Taylor.

The chandelier at the front door of the Okahoma City Golf and Country Club.

Lela Sullivan, Barbara Beeler, Janie Axton and Vicki Rippeto were at the reception.

John Griffin and his daughter, Katie, dance at the reception.

John Griffin and Bud Beeler enjoy the event.

Lela Sullivan and Jon Axton were at the reception following the wedding.

Tables were set up in Harry’s Bar at the Country Club. The room was like a movie theater with lighted tables. The newly-weds favorites movies were shown on a big screen and “junk food,” including popcorn and chips and dips were served to the guests in this room. In the ballroom, dinner was served.

The groom’s cake.

Roses and orchids were set in the big terra cotta pots at the entrance of the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club.

A wedding cake was created out of flowers for one of the many bouquets throughout the house. (Photos by Helen Ford Wallace).

Jamie and Gil Gaddis were married May 22nd.

The May 22nd celebration reception following Jamie Davis and Gil Gaddis’ wedding was spectacular!

It was held in their beautiful new home! Their many, many friends were so happy for them! The food was excellent and artistically arranged! The flowers were beautiful!

Gerber daisies in tall pedestals flanked the front door of the Gaddis home.

Individual wedding cheesecakes were topped with fondant flowers.

Bouquets of various kinds of flowers on tall stakes. marked the sidewalk to the front door.

Rawsie Boyles and Linda Carpenter celebrate with the newly-weds.

Sherry Bennett and Gene Barth were at the wedding reception.

Ed Barth and Dede Benham talk at the party.

Linda Rosser and Claire and Tony Puckett were at the party.

Maj. and Mrs. Vincent Lappano  leave in the 1941 Buick get-away car after their wedding reception. (Photos provided).

Dr. Abbey Onan and Maj. Vincent Lappano were married Jan. 16th at Saint Monica Catholic Church in Edmond. Family and close friends attended. The bride wore a traditional wedding dress and a quartz necklace and her mother’s crystal pendant for the wedding and an eight- strand turquoise necklace for the reception.

The reception was at the Petroleum Club North where Maj. Joe Don Baker played the horn and sang. There was also a piano player.

The newly-weds honeymooned in Cancun, Mexico.

The newly weds at the church.

Virgil and Donna Onan, Abbey and Vincent Lappano, Madelyn, Rebecca and Brody Onan after the wedding ceremony.