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Home » Photos of the Month » 2009 » Double Wedding

Photo of The Month – Jul 2009

Double Wedding

Picture contributor: Hazel Haynes Bridges Collection

A wedding party of 18 form a line around a goldfish pond. The men are in dark coats and white pants; the ladies are in long gowns. The brides are in their wedding ensembles. The fishpond contains lilypads and other plants.
Double Wedding

The date: June 1, 1937. The place: Beside the lily pond in Mr. Charley Haynes’ backyard. The occasion: The double wedding on of Paul Bridges & Hazel Haynes and Jim Spoon & Margaret Haynes.

Margaret Loretta Haynes, was the daughter of the late Robert E. Haynes, son of R.R. The family of James Merritt Spoon II owned Spoon’s Ice Cream parlors in Charlotte. Later Margaret and Jimmy, a pharmacist by trade, owned a drug store in Belmont and then in Charlotte.

Margaret’s nephew, Jim Haynes, six years old at the time, tells this story:

I carried Aunt Margaret’s long train from the house around to the back yard where the ceremony was to take place. I was supposed to hold the train until the after the ceremony was over, but I got restless and walked off over to the fish pond and fell in, right in the middle of the ‘I do’s,’ white duck suit and all. That was the end of the wedding for me, I had to leave and go down the street to my Grandmother Simmons’ house and stay until the wedding was over.

Here are some closer views with names of those in the ceremony.

From the main photo, a closer view of the left-most four members of the wedding party.

Third from left is Andrew Love. To his left is his sister,Virginia May Love. They are son and daughter of Robert Andrew Love and Sara Haynes Love.

 

Second from left is Rachel Fortune, daughter of Victor and Altonia Fortune. To her left is Joe Schull (son of Rush and Eula Mae Haynes Shull)

Closer shot of four others of the wedding party.

 

Close up of the four at the right end of the line in the wedding party.

At right, Charles H. Haynes, Grover C. Haynes.

 

Below: Jim and Margaret Spoon; Paul and Hazel Bridges; Rev. Zeno Wall, Rev. J.A. Hunnicutt.

The right end of the wedding line, showing the two brides and grooms and the two ministers.

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