Mary and Tom’s Wedding
October 31, 2023
A photograph of Mary taken in the weeks before the wedding. This picture accompanied the wedding announcement in the Augusta Chronicle.
Mary Annette Van Sant and Thomas Ellis Wheeler were married on April 10th, 1950 in a nuptial mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Augusta, Georgia.
Walking down the front steps of Sacred Heart Church. At the time of their wedding, Mary was 22 and Tom was 24.
Bride and groom at the reception. Mary is holding a bouquet of gardenias.
The newlyweds cutting the wedding cake.
Tom eating cake and Mary handing the cake knife to her sister-in-law.
The bride and groom with their mothers, Sarah Casey Van Sant and Mae Brennan Wheeler, and Mary’s brother.
The wedding party.
The Van Sant sisters.
Mary Ellen “May” Armstrong Casey Morrison (1870-1950), seated, with her daughter Sarah Theresa Casey Van Sant (1895-1992), left, her granddaughter, and first great-grandchild at Mary and Tom’s reception.
May was the oldest child and only daughter of John Francis Armstrong (1845-1893) and Sarah Theresa McAndrew Armstrong (abt. 1845-1887). She died several weeks after Tom and Mary’s wedding. She was 80 years old.
Starting a new life together.