(as told by Elizabeth Perkins Buchheit)
Vernon and I were married on June 6, 1947 in St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Park Ridge, Illinois. We had a very nice rehearsal dinner beforehand. One of Vernon’s colleagues from the Argonne Laboratory in Chicago came to the wedding and got sprayed by a skunk. He was wearing a tuxedo. He tried to get it cleaned but nobody would take it.
Our reception was held at the Park Ridge Country Club. Everybody danced all night. At the reception, I threw the bouquet with an overhand pitch. Somebody took the picture of it and you can see all the ribbons and everything flying off. That’s alright.
My cousin Hilda gave us the money to go on a honeymoon. Guess where we went? We got a honeymoon trip on a boat to Cuba! Wow. We just loved every minute of it. We stayed in a little hotel downtown, a real Cuban hotel. Vernon had strep throat on the boat and I told him don’t say a word ‘cause they won’t let you off. They’ll quarantine you, you know. They wouldn’t let anybody off with any infection in those days.
So he didn’t say a word and we went to hotel. The hotel owner got the doctor. The doctor came up and looked at Vernon. He had a great big cigar hanging out of his mouth. He told Vernon to open his mouth really wide. So both the doctor and the cigar looked at Vernon’s throat. The doctor then gave him something called Aspergum. It was so good. It cured him. He got better, anyhow, and carried on.
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