BioM: Schmirler, Ann Marie #3 (1958)

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Surnames: Schmirler, Wiedenhoeft, Schulz, Davis, Calmes, Hardrath 
 

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 12/04/1958 
 

Schmirler, Ann Marie (Marriage - 29 Nov. 1958) 
 

Miss Ann Marie Schmirler and Gilbert Wiedenhoeft, Jr., exchanged marriage vows Saturday afternoon in a double ring ceremony. The Rev. Raymond B. Schulz witnessed the rites at 2:00 o’clock in the rectory of St. Bernard’s Catholic church. Mr. and Mrs. Anton Schmirler, Abbotsford, and Gilbert Wiedenhoeft, Unity, are parents of the bridal couple. 
 

For her wedding, the bride wore a ballerina length white dress with very full skirt of nylon sheer and wool boucle bodice designed with three quarter length sleeves and accented with a white satin cummerbund. Her finger tip veil of scalloped illusion was secured to a tiara of iridescent sequins and seed pearls. 
 

She carried a bouquet of pink carnations centered with a white orchid.  
 

Miss Patricia Davis, Mosinee, friend of the bride, and Andrew Schmirler, Milwaukee, brother of the bride, were the couple’s attendants.  
 

Miss Davis wore an ice blue frock of crystalette with matching braid head piece. She carried a bouquet of pink carnations. 
 

Mrs. Schmirler, mother of the bride, chose a royal blue flowered jersey dress with black accessories. She wore an orchid shoulder corsage. 
 

Mrs. Theodore Calmes, Wausau, grand mother of the bride, and Mrs. Albert Wiedenhoeft, Unity, and Mrs. Herman Hardrath, Owen, grand mothers of the groom, were all honored with corsages. 
 

Following the ceremony, a reception was held at the home of the bride’s parents and a 4:00 o’clock supper was served to 100 guests at the high school dining room. 
 

Mr. and Mrs. Wiedenhoeft are making their home at Gray’s Lake, Ill., where he is employed as depot agent for the Soo Line. 
 

The bride is a graduate of Abbotsford high school and of St. Mary’s School of X-ray, Wausau. The groom and attended Central State College, Stevens Point. 
 

Relatives attending the wedding were from Owen, Unity, Schofield, Milwaukee, Rhinelander, Wausau, Colby and Abbotsford.