McKay – Jennisch Marriage 1897

MCKAY, JENNISH

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 12/17/2020 at 14:49:14

Source: Decorah Republican Oct. 21, 1897 P 4 C 4

MARRIED.
McKAY—JENNISCH—At the Catholic church in Decorah, Wednesday morning, Oct 20th, at nine o’clock, BENJAMIN J MCKAY second son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McKay, and MISS GRACE A. JENNISCH, youngest daughter or the late Charles H Jennisch, Rev. Father Hawe officiating
The church was most beautifully decorated for this pleasing event, and the mass sung by the choir lent beauty to the dignity and impressiveness of the Catholic marriage ceremony. Immediately after the ceremony the wedding party was driven to the bride’s home where congratulations were extended and dinner served. Only the families of Mr. and Mrs. McKay and a few of their most intimate friends were present. At 3:30 o’clock they took the Burlington train for Chicago, where they will spend their honeymoon.
The bride and groom were born and have grown to manhood and womanhood in Decorah and it is the delight of scores of friends to vie with each other in their expression of congratulations and good will. Mr. McKay, as bookkeeper in the Citizens Savings Bank, has won the respect of all who have come in contact with him by a courtesy and manly bearing which becomes the position he fills. Miss Jennisch is a young lady of many good qualities of mind and heart for which she is held in unusual esteem and love.
If rice and old shoes and a trunk decorated with white ribbons are as earnest of all the good tidings their friends wish for them, their life will be one of continual sunshine.