As Grandpa & Gaila were leaving our house one day, Logan (1.5 years old) wanted to join the fun. Grandpa gave him a ride down the driveway on his walker. Papa (Scott) helped too. 

Walla Walla Union Bulletin, Sunday, September 7, 1952: 

Whitmanites Are Married in Ceremony

The First Presbyterian Church at Wenatchee was beautifully decorated with large baskets of pink and white gladioli and asters for the marriage August 23 of Miss Anne Larner and William L. Couch, Whitman College students. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. W.S. Larner of Wenatchee and Couch's mother is Mrs. William L. Couch [sic] of 1402 E. Alder.

Robert McGrath of Walla Walla sang “I Love Thee” and “The Lord's Prayer," preceding the ceremony, accompanied on the organ by Mrs. D.W. Wile who also played the wedding marches.

Brother Gives Bride

The bride, whose brother, Tom Larner, gave her in marriage, chose a lovely gown of white imported starched chiffon over taffeta fashioned with a beautiful velveray flower design on the fitted bodice and the soft fullness of the bouffant skirt and full cathedral train. The gown also was styled with a deep yoke of nylon net and long sleeves. A tiny shirred bonnet edged with seed pearls held her fingertip length silk illusion net veil in place and she carried a white Rainbow Bible on which was arranged a white orchid with a shower of stephanotis and ivy.

She wore a crystal and seed pearl necklace her mother had worn on her wedding day and her “something old” was a pink opal brooch belonging to her grandmother. For the traditional “something blue,” she chose a frilly garter.

 Attendants Wear Aqua

Maid of honor was Miss Elizabeth Scofield of Spokane who wore a ballerina length gown of aqua organdy with matching mitts and cap. She carried rosebuds and gerbera in shades of pink which were arranged with large begonia leaves and simulated peach twigs and blossoms.

Mrs. Thomas Larner, sister-in-law of the bride from Seattle, and Mrs. Albert Wedekind of Satsop, Wash., were bridesmaids and junior attendants were Sandra Healy, niece of bridegroom, and Della Jean Harder, a cousin of the bride. They were attired in gowns identical to the honor attendants with matching mitts and caps and their bouquets also matched Miss Scofield's.

Candlelighters were the Misses Louise Kercheval and Barbara Jensen of Wenatchee. They wore pink orchid satin ballerina length gowns.

For her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Larner wore a powder blue lace afternoon dress with pink accessories and a corsage of pink carnations. The bridegroom's mother wore a black afternoon dress with pink accessories and she also had a corsage of pink carnations.

Albert P. Couch was his brother's best man and ushers were Louis Healy of Walla Walla, Tom Smith of Seattle, Gordon Jaynes of Seattle, Royce Noland of San Francisco, Charles Holderman of Seattle and Robert Dark of Wenatchee.

Reception At Church

A reception was held in the church parlors following the ceremony. Cutting the cake were Mrs. Louis Healy, sister of the bridegroom, and Miss Helen Mooney. Mrs. Gordon Jaynes, niece of the bridegroom from Seattle, served the punch and Mrs. Eldon Landin of Wenatchee had charge of the guest book. Miss Carolyn Angell of Walla Walla was in charge of the gift table.

The newlyweds will make their home at 830 Boyer when they return to continue studies at Whitman College. Couch is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the bride is affiliated with Delta Gamma sorority.

Walla Wallans who attended the wedding besides the bridegroom's mother were Mr. and Mrs. Louis Healy, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Goodyear, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Noland, Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGrath, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jaynes, Miss Carolyn and Miss Sonia Angell, Mrs. Jasper Morrison and Miss Ida Mae Morrison.