“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer,
the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months,
and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. “
Gertrude Jekyll
A scene from – ‘June Bride’ – Starring Bette Davis
There are so many things about June that make it a perfect month for weddings. It’s past the rainy season, and not yet into the intense, scorching heat of July. June also seems like a hopeful time. Flowers are in bloom, the leaves are back on the trees in full force, and all of the signs of the past winter are long gone, and forgotten.
Let’s take a trip down memory lane, and discover some of the blushing brides and dashing grooms from Perth and area.
William Powell – Mary Doreen Prescott – June 3, 1944
Hilton Clifton Rhodes – Barbara Parsons June 3, 1944
Henry Hoffman – Alice McCumiskey – June 6, 1944
Eldon Thomas Perrin – Grace Campbell – June 10, 1044
Robert Martin – Ena Foy June 10, 1944
Joanna Hill Tea Roses – large, showy, and richly fragrant – favoured by brides
Wilfred Smith – Anastasia Julia Dillon – June 12, 1944
Bennett – Larocque
Campbell – Relyon
Perrin – Campbell
Sandell – Rowe
Dillion – Smith
Perth Courier, June 22, 1944, page 10
Raymond Bennett – Ella Larocque
John Palmer – Irene Poole – June 20, 1944
1944 Wedding Gown
Thomas Spence – Eva Barrie June 24, 1944
John McDonnell – Madeleine Marion Kirkham
– June 14, 1944
James Rodger – Agnes Steele June 27, 1944
May McCreary – Captain A.C. Johnson June 30, 1944
Earl Perkins – Merway Tysick – June 1, 1945
Patrick Gouette – Rose Haughian – June 2, 1945
John Malloy – Mary Isabell Morrison June 2, 1945
Judy Garland and Vincent Minnelli – June 15, 1945
1945 June Weddings
Patrick Gouette – Rose Haughian June 2, 1945
John Malloy – Mary Isabell Morrison June 2, 1945
Ernest Miller – Evelyn Mather June 9, 1945
Earl Perkins – Merway Tysick June 1, 1945
Evelyn Ferguson – Herbert Ballantyne June 23, 1945
Party for Miss Evelyn Mather (Miller)
John Churchill – Marion Machan June 6, 1945
Gordon Bell – Jennie Tretheway June 12, 1945
Doris Truelove – Kenneth Kirkham June 6, 1945
Margaret Mitchell – Gordon Wright June 1, 1945
Annie Mary Kirkham – Leonard Adam June 12, 1945
Evelyn O’Brien – Arnold Wilfred Brady June 5, 1945
Jack Forbes – Pauline Ruth Mesereau – June 7, 1945
Rebecca Catherine Hubbs – Raymond Poole – 1945
Rita Bissonette – Raymond Lally June 16, 1945
Margaret Dowdall – Michael George Kerr – June 25, 1945
Leanore Ireton – Christopher Perkins – June 23, 1945
Jocelyn Mulligan – Mickey Godfrey – June 30, 1945
Ethel June Gardiner – William James Montgomery
June 5, 1946
Pearl Lydia Pilitzke – Ivan Benton – June 7, 1946
Audrey Cooke – Wallace Calvin Kilfoyle – June 15, 1946
Anna Moran – Ronald Smith – June 15, 1946
Aileen Gertrude Kehoe – Bryan Michael Coyne
– June 1, 1946
Agnes McColl – Francis Martin Murphy – June 15, 1946
Edna Martha Erwin – Harold Isaac Buchanan
– June 8, 1946
Daisy Fleming – David Burke June 14, 1946
Nina Dicola – John MacNeill – June 5, 1946
Ethel McLean – Delmar Thomas Crosby – June 8, 1946
Mabel Isobel Scott – Harold Richard Swerbrick
June 18, 1946
Iris Mary Paterson – Thomas Kent – June 20, 1946
Alma Marion Haley – Mathew Gordon James
Margaret Olive Truelove – Patrick Joseph Leonard
Doris Isobel Dodds – Milton Phillips
Ella Mary Donnelly – Thomas Edward McParland
Velva Fay Popplewell – Percy Boyd
June 25, 1946
Olive Frances Truelove- Stanley Ferguson McDougall
Isabel Clark – John Alexander Moore
Dorothy Eleanor Allan – Eldon Sargeant –
June 29, 1946
Miss Marjorie Storie
Albert Ernest Wills – Gladys Sutcliffe – June 2, 1947
Mary Kathleen Moran – John Edward Smith
– June 14, 1947
A Trousseau Tea for Lula Publow
Elsie Spooner – Sgt. W.L.J. McOuatt
Rose Ann McDonald – Robert Milton Purdon
Margaret Wilson – Christian Jensen, June 9, 1947
Lois Publow – Gordon Sergeant June 9, 1947
Margaret Chaplin – James Kaghnt June 27, 1947
Norma Helene Mather – Arthur Coleman – June 14, 1947
Lucille McGonegal – William McLaren
Mary McParlan – William John Kerr – June 7, 1947
William Wesley Cameron – Audrey Lillian Wert
June 10, 1947
Stephanotis was a sought-after addition to bridal bouquets
Jean Spalding – Robert Hendry
Margaret Cameron – Alexander ‘Sandy’ Forsyth
June 27, 1947
Norine Clark – Wesley Tostevin – June 21, 1947
Mary Frances Brankin – Joseph Alfred Publow
peonies and snapdragons – popular Eastern Ontario wedding flowers, in the late 1940s
Mary Moore – John Smith
Betty Wilson – Alexander Allan Johnson
June 18, 1947
Florence Elaine Truelove – John Cameron Warren
June 28, 1947
June 10, 1948 -King Michael of Romania & Princess Anne
Ad: June 3, 1948, ‘The Perth Courier’
Georgia Irene Ferguson – Ernest Peterson June 23, 1948
Wedding gowns, for sale at Shaws of Perth – June 1948
Jessie May McDonell – Wilbert Russell – June 25, 1948
Norma Margaret Ruth Smiley – Jack W. Buell
Lillian Irene Truelove – Edward James Bennett
June 2, 1948
Elizabeth May Boles – Harold Earl McLaren
June 2, 1948
Ruth Taylor – Joseph Nagle
June 7, 1948
Pearl Danylo – John Yurchuk
June 7, 1948
Pink roses, maidenhair fern, and baby’s breath
Joan Christine Poole – Stanley James Beaton
June 12, 1948
Brides often purchased, or made, a special negligee, for their wedding night
Muriel Barbara Imeson – George Robinson
Frances Ethel Noonan – George Walter King
June 10, 1948
Alberta Blanche MacLeod – Thomas Auchterlonie
June 12, 1948
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez June 19, 1949
Gladys Kane – Ronald Anderson
June 4, 1949
American Beauty Roses
Orange Blossoms – popular in bridal bouquets of the 1940s
Eileen Isabel Buchanan – Murray Herbert Dowdall
June 25, 1949
Annie Elizabeth Seabrook- Maxwell Tennyson
Delphine DiCola – Domenic Bitondo
June 11, 1949
Carmel Strong – David Parks
June 11, 1949
Lila Beatrice Cross – Arthur Powers
June 4, 1949
Traditional wedding cake box, tied with white satin ribbon
1940s wedding ring and engagement ring set
Marion Eileen Chaplin – Robert Charles Harrison
Ethel and Robert Kennedy June 17, 1950
Verna Barr – George Perkins
June 16, 1950
White Gladiolus
Florence Irene Morrow – Kenneth Burns
Emma Jean Buchanan – Merrill Gordon Hanna
Alice Theresa Conlon – Carl Anthony Noonan
June 28, 1950
Lorna Lett – John Reid
Bridal Shower for Miss Mary Ewart
Traditional 1950s bridal bouquet of red and white roses
Jean Cameron – Jack Dafoe
June 3, 1950
Corsage of pink roses
Joyce Parkinson – Cecil Alexander Cameron
June 3, 1950
Chantilly Lace – a popular fabric in 1950s wedding gowns and veils
Margaret Spall – Arthur Meighen
Grace Scott – Archie Allan
June 23, 1950
Bertha Elizabeth McInnes – James William McLaren
June 15, 1950
Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis – June 4, 1951
Rebecca Mary Popplewell – Carl Wesley Bolton
Kathleen Bernice Wesley – Ian Keith Carruthers
June 30, 1951
Bridal Shower for Helen McLean
A Second Bridal Shower for Helen McLean
Helen McLean – Harold Day
June 16, 1951
Some brides carried a wedding ‘Prayer Book’
Mary Louise Sproule – Archibald Hilliard Walsh
1951 Tulle wedding gown
Grace Margaret Kelly – Kenneth Mitchell Cavers
June 2, 1951
Dorothy Mae Clayton – Grason Francis Furlong
June 2, 1951
Lillian Elsie Watkins – Gerald Edward Stephens
June 4, 1951
Margaret Rose – Kenneth Campbell
Pinocchio Roses
Ruth Janet Millar – Robert Arnold Playfair
June 16, 1951
Nora Catherine Hagyard – Dr. John Philip Wickware
June 16, 1951
Doris Margaret Proctor – Keith Gordon McLaren
June 16, 1951
Edna Pearl Duffy – Kenneth Popplewell
June 6, 1951
Wedding Gifts in 1952
June 5, 1952, page 4, “The Perth Courier”
– Engagements –
Shirley Sergeant – Lloyd Rowsome
June 18, 1952
Joyce Wedenmair – Morris Bradley
June 28, 1952
Mary Anne Bishop – Alvin Elmer Leach
Shirley Marie Brady – Charles Robert Dowdall
June 28, 1952
Winnifred Marion Briggs – Howard Roland
June 21, 1952
Margaret Gladys Mather – Basil John James Munro
June 6, 1952
Mary Lillian Pratt – John Leonard Cross
Geraldine Amy Butler – Francis Edwin Conlon
June 7, 1952
Reba Adeline Lee – Leslie Walter Butler
June 26, 1953
Mary Eileen Traynor – Ernest Hugh McKinnon
June 27, 1953
Joan Margaret Doyle – Raymond Walter Oleksuik
Francis Albert Nagle – Shirley Ann Coniams
Janet Corrine Malcolm – Joseph Earl Felber
June 20, 1953
Joan Maher – Dr. Horace Hurley
Lillian Cecelia Smith – William Cornell Arthur
June 13, 1953
Johnston – Nixon
Conlon – Staffen
Bingley – Hart
Blair Maurice Bingley – Arlene Martha Hart
June 6, 1953
Bridal Shower for Miss Ada Warren
Ruth Elizabeth Devitt – Robert George McTavish
June 20, 1953
Evelyn Moore – Donald MacFarlane
June 6, 1954
Audrey McLaren – Orville Ferrier
June 30, 1954
Patricia Tannahill – Chapman Noonan
June 5, 1954
Elsie Marie Larocque – William Wilson
June 5, 1954
Cheryl Ann Sharpe – Brian Geoffrey McGeachie
June 26, 1954
Patricia Ann Popplewell – Robert Joseph Drysdale
Sylvia Larmon – Donald VanAlstine
Lillian Johnston – Jack Wong
June 8, 1955
Joyce McDougall – David Ernest Code
Jean Doris Graham – Elwyn Michael McOuatt
June 1, 1955
Grace Catherine Pennett – Anthony Cauley
June 4, 1955
Geraldine Mae O’Shell – Henry Allan
June 18, 1955
Laurel Anna Sproule – J. Michael Crosby
June 10, 1955
Margaret McAdam – Gordon McVeety
June 4, 1955
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller – June 29, 1956
Norma Brown – Terrence Ryan
June 30, 1956
Norma Churchill – Elmer Burns
Doreen Warren – Donald Kirkham
June 30, 1956
Jean Munroe – Gordon Healey
June 16, 1956
Ethel Munro – Harold Clark
June 30, 1956
Barbara Ann Fraser – Douglas Walter Hogg
June 30, 1956
Marie Margaret Pennett – Gervase Speagle
Lois Dowdall – Eric Robertson
Helen Affleck – Robert Thomas Leonard
June 2, 1956
Patricia Lake – William Salter
June 29, 1956
Lorraine Batoff – Donald Bell
June 17, 1957
Teresa Margaret Phelan – Donald Stelliga
June 29, 1957
Evelyn McLenaghan – Clive McIntosh Rodger
June 29, 1957
Lois Machan – Ronald Kirkham
June 1, 1957
Margaret Beryl Moodie – Charles Earl Cleroux
June 29, 1957
Bridal Shower & Wedding Gift Suggestions – 1957
June 20, 1957, page 7 “The Perth Courier”
Emma Mae Sills – Donald Bain
June 15, 1957
“The Perth Courier” June 27, 1957 pg.2
Marion Carmichael – George Stedman
Aileen Palmer – Robert McManus
Margaret Stewart – Norman Inwood
June 15, 1957
Rose Marie Flett – Robert Buelow
June 22, 1957
Shirley Theresa McGarry – John Edward McMaster
June 21, 1958
Elizabeth Joyce Smith – Albert Alexander Stoddart
June 28, 1958
Mary Margaret Farmer – Alexander McGregor
June 28, 1958
Harold Armour – Betty Haines
June 8, 1958
Olive Sheridan – Gerard Pattendon
June 14, 1958
Corsages and Etiquette – from Emily Post – 1958
Reta Harris – Melville Dixon
June 27th, 1959
Ruth MacFarlane – Donald Munro
Robert Thornbury – Faye Wallace
Carl Rodger – Nadine Grosbak
June 13, 1959
Dorothy James – John Edward Dunn
June 20, 1959
Sandra Isabella Street – Dr. Shuro Mark Sumi
Florence Badour – James Deitrich
Eileen McGrogen – Charles Deitrich
Muriel Johnston – William Love
June 5, 1959
Engagement Ring ad – 1959
Mary Evelyn Vice – Dr. Kenneth George Marshall
June 13, 1959
Lydia Hill – George Worden
June 27, 1959
Anna Anderson – Charles Hall
June 20, 1959
Beulah Kingsley – Robert Girdwood
June 25, 1960
Jean Hughes – James Doyle
June 4, 1960
Patrick Crawford – Anne Shafer
June 4, 1960
Charlotte Ann Johnston – Hugh Wainwright
June 25th, 1960
Helen James – John Gemmill
June 10, 1960
Joanie Mae McPhee – Leonard White
June 4, 1960
Diane Churchill – Glendon Robert Ritchie
June 18, 1960
Marie Copeland – William Arnell
June 24, 1961
Frieda Jackson – George Kerr
June 2, 1961
Shirley Gray – Albert Healey
June 3, 1961
Norma Haveron – Malcolm McLellan
June 10, 1961
Evelyn Patricia Clark – Denzel Kinngbeck
June 23, 1962
Anne Caswell – Robert Stanzell
June 9, 1962
Bridal Shower for Marie Miller
Decorations were often pink and white for a June bridal shower
Margaret Blair – David Bellamy
June 2, 1962
Arlie Isobel Dowdell – Archie Reynolds
Rebecca Arlyn Carson – Allan McMillan
Nancy Cameron – Joseph Perkins
June 23, 1962
1963
Mary Denise Pennett – William James Close
June 22, 1963
Carolynne Wart – John Mara
June 22, 1963
Mary Elizabeth Stephenson – Dr. Walter Waddell
June 22, 1963
Ad for Shaws of Perth, Spring 1963
Margaret Anne Noonan – Gerald Ernest Heney
June 29, 1963
Sheila Tryon – Harold Schonauer
June 1, 1963
Ad for Acheson’s – Summer 1963
Ad – HY FUND Photography – summer 1963
Myrtle Isabel Buker – Elmer James Ashby
June 24, 1963
Betty Joan Machan – James Edward Closs
June 15, 1963
Helen Evelyn Ramsbottom – Neal Cecil Peters
June 26, 1964
Sharon Louise Smith – Francis Edward Badour
June 6, 1964
Jean Rancier – Davis John Carson
June 27, 1964
Thelma Jean Gemmill – Delmer James Paul
June 27, 1964
Eleanor Erwin – George Gardiner
June 27, 1964
Shirley Elizabeth Box – Robert John King
June 27, 1964
Grace Roseann Tryon – William Ross Wilby
June 27, 1964
Bonita Olive Rogers – Donald Bates
June 12, 1964
Janis Elizabeth Rae – Gordon Malcolm Stewart
June 27, 1964
Ruth Ann Spalding – George Young
Bernard Irvin – Kathleen Vollmer
June 13, 1964
Donna Marie Ferguson – Kenneth Hayes Warrington
June 18, 1965
Beverly Jean Stewart – Harvey Lloyd Glen Crosbie
June 26, 1965
Reta Jean Burns – Russell Edward Burke
June 26, 1965
Mary Beverly Tennant – Gordon Gerald Patterson
June 19, 1965
Patricia Ann Fournier – Arnold Lawrence Horne
June 26, 1965
Carol Anne Stevens – Walter Russell Last
June 16, 1965
Pearl jewelry – a favourite for brides through the ages
Merle Joyce Norris – Robert Christopher Cullen
June 26th, 1965
Jo-Ann Brady – Dennis Cordick
Catherine Anne Graham – Barrie Oliver Brennan
June 26, 1965
Mary Beverly Tennant – Gordon Gerald Patterson
June 19, 1965
Sheila Chaplin – Orion Thomas Clark
June 18, 1966
Chaplin – Clark wedding
Mary Joanne Richmond – Brian Brule
June 18, 1966
Barbara MacDonald – David Clarkson
June 25, 1966
Trousseau
Trousseau – was often stored in a bride-to-be’s Hope Chest, and included bridal accessories, lingerie, clothing for the honeymoon, linens, and toiletries.
The trousseau featured handmade items crafted by the bride-to-be or her female relatives. A trousseau might include a smart travel outfit, or ‘Going-Away’ outfit, to be worn when departing the wedding reception. Along with these articles, a bride might also have a special peignoir set, consisting of a nightgown and matching cover, and a nice set of travel luggage for the honeymoon.
A Trousseau Tea was often hosted by the mother of the bride-to-be, to invite the ladies from the neighbourhood to share tea and dainty sandwiches, and squares. Guests would bring small gifts for the bride such as tea towels, mixing bowls, or small kitchen gadgets.
Items in a bride’s Trousseau
Nancy Girdwood – Bryon Haley
June 18, 1966
Barbara Larock – Arthur Lloyd Blanchard
June 25, 1966
Mary Elenor Cox – William Devlin Weir
June 11, 1966
Gail Rancier – Grant Davis
June 11, 1966
Margaret Ann Livingston – William Wiley
June 24, 1967
Joan Stewart – Brian Billings
June 24, 1967
Margaret McParland – Ronald Kerr
June 10, 1967
Marjorie Whan – Harvey Tully
June 17, 1967
Sherry Ann Raymo – Harold James Herns
June 1, 1968
Carol Ann Wilson – Frederick Albert Stanzel
June 1, 1968
Gloria Anne Morrison – James Francis Murphy
June 8, 1968
Aubrey Edsel Churchill – Ann Leigh Raynard
June 29, 1968
Robert Shanks – Wilma Paul
June 15, 1968
Susanne Crites – Calvin Miller
June 26, 1968
Crites – Miller
Joan Margaret Murray – Rudy Herbert Hollywood
1968
June Brides of 1969
photo: Tim Stafford of R.R. # 4 Perth, and his June bride, Marian Salemink
Timothy Michael Stafford – Marian Helen Salemink
June 28, 1969
Donald Wilmer Paul – Gail Keighton
June 7, 1969
Sylvia Ann Stewart – Wayne Wilbert McNamee
June 28, 1969
Mary Margaret Farrell – Truman Harold Cowan
June 27, 1969
Colleen Sherri Fox – Peter John McTavish
June 21, 1969
Mary Teresa McGlade – John Carl Shannon
June 28, 1969
June Vernize Wheeler – Edward Earl Carnrite
June 28, 1969
Marilyn Emily Marie Wills – Malcolm Graham Dodds
June 20, 1969
Ruth Marilyn Conboy – Ralph Herbert McKee
June 28, 1969
Linda Marie Smith – William David Riddell
June 28, 1969
Vera Louise Connaty Middleton – Frank Fanning
June 21, 1969
Carol Ann Stanzel – Dennis John Close
June 28, 1969
Helen Hastings – John Slaght
June 14, 1969
Janet Faye Robinson – Peter John Thompson
June 7, 1969
Shirley Edna Maher – Norman Bernard Thomlinson
June 20, 1969
June’s popularity for weddings goes back to Roman times, since the month was named for ‘Juno’, the Roman goddess of marriage. The ancient legends promise that those who marry in Juno’s month will enjoy prosperity and happiness for years to come.
“Oh, they say when you marry in June you’re a bride all your life,
and the bridegroom who marries in June gets a sweet-heart for a wife.
Winter weddings can be gay like a Christmas holiday,
but the JUNE BRIDE hears the song of a spring, that lasts all summer long”
(from the movie: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary to all of the June Brides and Grooms!
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Member, Association of Professional Genealogists
Honorary Life Member, Lanark County Genealogical Society
Author of : “Lanark County Christmas”, “Lanark County Comfort”, “Lanark County Collection”, “Lanark County Calling”, “Lanark County Classics”, “Lanark County Connections”, “Lanark County Calendar”, “Lanark County Chronicle”, “Lanark County Kid”, & “Recipes & Recollections”
arlene stafford wilson 
Thank you for sharing this, Arlene. I have never seen the written notice of my parents wedding.
I’m so glad that you could see your parents’ wedding announcement! Thanks for letting me know Shirley!
Thanks for sharing so many peoples wedding I knew and enjoyed the read.
Thanks Eveline. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you Arlene ,nice to see mom and dads again Murray & Eileen Dowdall.
Hello Connie! It used to be so much fun to visit the store, and Murray and Eileen were always so good to us kids. Those were good times. It was nice to see their wedding announcement and be able to include it.
Loved this, great job!
Thanks Maureen!
This is great, Arlene! There were a couple family connections.
Thanks, so many names i recognize!
Really interesting. Didn’t quite make it to mine in August 1969