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Like many of the Intermountain Catholic’s special issues, this one took on a life of its own. In truth, we are challenged in publishing an issue celebrating weddings when statistics tell us that 50 percent of all marriages today end in divorce – yes, even the Catholic ones.
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — "Natural Family Planning (NFP) helps couples understand what their marriage vows mean, helps them live their marriage vows, and allows them to grow together.
>>>OGDEN— In 1947 two brothers from South Dakota, Tom and Leonard Brennan, married two Joyces. Leonard, at the age of 28, married the 30-year-old Joyce Sheldon. Today, Joyce Brennan is a 90-year-young woman, who still attends Mass every Sunday at St. James Church in Ogden and enjoys BINGO.
>>>OGDEN — "When Jim came back from Korea, I was engaged to one of his friends, George," Carolyn Wold said. "Another friend introduced us, and it just seemed right."
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — On June 1, in the Warbirds Cafe Hangar, an old airplane hangar in Driggs, Idaho converted into a restaurant, sat Jane and Robert L. (Les) Roach of Salt Lake City and three generations of their family. Les and Jane were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. The family reunion had been dubbed The Roach Family Round-up. The biggest surprise of the evening came after dinner "when they wheeled out a small wedding cake topped with the center piece to our original wedding cake," Jane told the Intermountain Catholic in a June 20 interview. "I’d kept that wedding cake topper in my hope chest for 50 years," she said. "When I saw it on the anniversary cake, I realized I hadn’t even missed it. Our children were so good at planning all of this."
>>>OGDEN — Jackie and Charles Harrop can not only talk about watching the new St. James Catholic Church go up in Ogden, they can tell you about helping to build the old St. James Church. Married Aug. 3, 1947 in St. Joseph Church, the Harrops went to elementary school together at the original St. Joseph Elementary School.
>>>OGDEN — When Fred Corra first saw Virginia Morrelli at the Ogden Train Station, Jan. 3, 1947, "it was interest at first sight," he said. The Des Plaines, Ill., native asked Virginia to marry him five months later and the two were married the following October.
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — For a certain wedding set for Aug. 4 at a certain Salt Lake City Catholic church, everything is under control except for one last stray tuxedo and a dress. Beyond that, the wedding David Burchett and Amy London have been planning for a year is ready to welcome guests and come together for a new blessed union of holy matrimony.
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