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Precious metal

29 Friday Jun 2018

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There’s something startling about seeing a wedding ring on your child’s hand – a hand that never wore a high school or college ring, or jewelry of any kind.

It is a larger version of the pudgy little hand that so often reached for mine. The same toddler’s hand that dragged a chair across my kitchen floor to reach the counter and put pieces of bread in the toaster. (C’mon, we let him use a toaster, not fire up a barbeque grill.)

Today, his fingers are longer and carry more responsibility. They nurture a career, a home and a wife.

And now, they wear a ring.

 

 

Renee Garrison is the award-winning author of “The Anchor Clankers.“

 

 

A hug in my hand

05 Thursday Apr 2018

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My college experience included membership in a sorority which promised to “establish a perpetual bond of friendship” among its members. The promise turned out to be true.
Back then, my “Little Sister” gave me a pansy handkerchief (our sorority flower) which I carried at my wedding as the traditional “something blue.” Since then, it has traveled to college graduations along with Arlington National Cemetery to bury my parents.
Next week, my son will be married in Texas and I have scrupulously tried to follow the unspoken rules established for the mother of the groom: “Simply show up, shut up and wear beige.” It is a role which is the least important and the most invisible.
This is a destination wedding (with a limited guest list) so few friends will be with me to watch my son become a husband. Instead, my emotional support will lay folded inside my pocket, in the form of a pansy hanky. Along with drying tears, it will serve as a hug in my hand and a reminder of the friends who care.
Delta love and mine, Roxanne.

 

 

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Renee Garrison is the award-winning author of “The Anchor Clankers.”

Mothers of brides

10 Thursday May 2012

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“I tried on green velvet. A Rodney Dangerfield line came to me: ‘If that dress had pockets, you’d look like a pool table.’ The dress had pockets.”

-Ilene Beckman, “Mother of the Bride: The Dream, The Reality, The Search for a Perfect Dress”

There are advantages to having a daughter marry in her thirties: She knows what she wants and doesn’t need much help planning her big day.

But there are disadvantages, too: She knows what she wants and doesn’t need much help planning her big day…

Every mother imagines her child’s wedding. But when the time actually comes, few can imagine what to wear.

Yet I’m fairly certain we all take the same silent vow: I shall choose a dress that photographs well.

“Comfort was a key element for me,” recalls Sally Enderle of Kalamazoo, Michigan. “I knew it would be a long day, so I thought a knit outfit would be very comfortable.”

After several shopping trips, Enderle finally chose a long skirt, shell and jacket by St. John for daughter Molly’s wedding.

“It wasn’t even important to me to buy an outfit I could wear again – although I have,” Enderle adds. “I only have one daughter and I wanted to feel comfortable and confident on the day she was married.”

Comfort should be a major consideration for mothers of brides and grooms.

That is why I intend to focus on my feet.

During an interview for The Tampa Tribune, the elegant bridal designer Monique Lhuillier once advised me to “Spend more on your shoes than your entire outfit.”

Out of thousands of interviews conducted throughout my career, I distinctly remember hers, and plan to heed her advice. But – just in case – I’ll bring a second pair to the reception.

(I may suggest it to my daughter, too.)

Photograph by Britt Laughlin: Kathryn Leigh Garrison’s christening day.

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