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Eighteen-AL A VV R E N C E I) A 1 L V J O U R N A L -W OR L DLawrence, Kansas, Thursday, May 5. IQhfi.BRIDEGROOM-TO-BE Richard Davids of New York City take* a look at his fiancee's possible going-away outfit. She is Miss Rrnafr Butler of Little Silver, N JExcitement Sure to BuildRight Up to Wedding Day‘ We've been riding high with excitement, and that’s the way it's going to he right up to our wedding day. says bride-to-be Renate Butler, an animated blond who calmly planned a large formal wedding in the short two-month span between engagement announcement and the wedding ceremony “Our wedding date depended on the schedule of the minister we wanted very much. Dr Ralph Sockman. pastor-emeritus of Christ Church in New York. My family has belonged to his church for years We sent telegrams all over, and finally found him at Royal York. Ont.. and he agreed to perform the ceremony.* So that was settled, and I sent invitations to about 150 people for the wedding I have absolutely no relatives in the Last, so the guests are coming from Switzerland. California. Texas and Mexico For that reason too. we felt New York was a more convenient place for the wedding, rather than in my parents’ home in Little Silver, N. J.’’Renate. who is translator and copywriter for the Swedish-American Line, has calmly arranged a club reception for 50 guests, shopped for her trousseau. had her wedding gown fitted, chosen gowns for herbridesmaids, and attended par-i ties in her honor almost every ' nightA Woodrow Wilson fellow at Harvard University, she has a good many friends in the Boston area, so one weekend she and her fiance. Richard Davids, an advertising executive, had a round of parties there.It's really marvelous.’’ she comments. Dick will have a business meeting with stock brokers or lawyers, and afterwards, we'll dine together so I can meet his friends.‘it’s amazing hlt;ftv many interests we share in common Dick’s a champion skiier, and I love to ski He plays the piano and so do I.”Renate met Dick in what she calls a very romantic manner. She inadvertently locked herself out of her office after hours, and Dick’s father came by and asked if he could help her. Dick’s office is in an adjoining building, and the father quickly called his son to offer aid, which consisted of pounding on the door till the cleaning woman opened it.Dick had noticed Renate when they rode the same elevator, but it took the emergency to bring together a meeting They had a few dates and then quickly decided to marry.BRIDE-TO-BE models her wedding gown which is deep ivory peau de soie. The bodice is embroidered with alencon lace and seed pearls, the cut is modified A-line with a Sabrina neckline and the train is cathedral length.ADVICE FROM her wedding photographer. Jay Te Winburn, is given to bride-to-be Renate Butler. Miss Butler chose a gown of antique Italian peau de soie.Try to Squabble In Fair FashionATLANTA (AP) — It is said that Dr. Robert W. Burns does everything for the couples he marries except teach the bride how to cook.As pastor of the non-denomi-national Peachtree Christian church here he has advised the more than 3.400 couples he has married thus far to return to• Tell the truth about debts each may have, draw up a workable budget, and cancel all charge accounts.• Read aloud to each other— Bible, the great love literature of the world, poems.• Fight fair when quarreling. It’s not fair to compare a bride's cooking to the bridegroom’s mother’s, or for her to compare her husband's earning powers with her father’s.• Immature selfishness is the biggest cause of divorce,’’ Dr. Burns says. Ever since 1934
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Lawrence Daily Journal World
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Thu, May 05, 1966
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