Later that Same Year

January 19, 1948 from the Charleston News & Courier:

Miss Salmons Weds Mr. Lawson in St. Michael’s

The marriage of Miss Rosamond Salmons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Van Brun Salmons, of 39 Meeting Street, to Mr. Louis Russell Lawson, Jr., also of Charleston, took place at 8 p.m. yesterday in St. Michael’s Protestant Episcopal Church. The Rev. J. DeWolf Perry, rector, performed the ceremony.

The church was decorated with white gladioli and snapdragons, candelabra and palms. Mr. W. Donald George, organist, played the wedding music.

The bride was given in marriage by her father. Her gown of ivory satin was made with a bodice of duchess lace with rose point medallions which had been used on her grandmother’s wedding dress, long sleeves and a circular train. Her veil of tulle fell from a cap of duchess lace, trimmed with orange blossoms, and she carried a bouquet of gardenias and tuberoses.

Miss Helen Jervey Ingle, the bride’s maid of honor, wore aquamarine faille, made on princess lines with a fold of the material over the shoulders, forming sleeves. She carried a bouquet of white carnations and wore a half-circle of the flowers in her hair.

The bridesmaids, Miss Averill Lawson of Charlotte, sister of the bridegroom, Miss Sarah Anne Bissell of Albany, N.Y., and Miss Marion Mitchell, of Charleston, cousins of the bride, and Miss Alice McRitchie, also of Charleston, wore gowns like that of the maid of honor and carried pink carnations with half-circles of the same flowers in their hair.

Mr. Louis R. Lawson, of Charlotte, father of the bridegroom, was his son’s best man. Serving as ushers were Messrs. Richard Waring Salmons, brother of the bride, Frank Jervey Ball, William Chisholm Coleman, and Andrew S. Drury, all of Charleston; Mr. Robert S. Hutchinson, of Charlotte, and Dr. James C. Varnell of Pinopolis.

Mrs. Salmons, mother of the bride, was gowned in gray crepe with a corsage of pink carnations.

Mrs. Louis R. Lawson of Charlotte, mother of the bridegroom, wore beige crepe and an orchid corsage.

A reception was held after the ceremony at the South Carolina hall. The hall was decorated with pnk and white flowers. The bride’s table was centered with a silver bowl of white flowers, flanked by candelabra.

Following a wedding trip south, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson will reside at 12 Bedon’s Alley. Mrs. Lawson wore for traveling a suit of gray with black accessories and a corsage of gardenias.

Postmark: April 15, 1948, Naval Oper. Base, Guantanamo, Cuba

to Mrs. Louis R. Lawson, Jr.

Darling –
We are rounding the bend now to come into Guantanamo, Cuba, for the night and then, on to Puerto Rico.
The trip has been pleasant except for the first 24 hours out — off Hatteras (Haterras?) in a storm. Me in an upper bunk trying to get salty again overnight and not fall out. I didn’t fall out but I also didn’t sleep.
I’ve been doing pretty well as I please since only the Exec (LCDR Joslyn who married Admiral DuBose’s daughter) and the skipper (CDR?) have as much or more experience in destroyers than me. The other officers are pleasant enough but USN and pretty green.
Thought about you as we passed Charleston the other night. Missed you terribly!
See you next Sunday – hold the Pink House down. My regards to your folks.

All my love always,
Louis

P.S. Harry sold your glasses! Congratulations. Saw him on the way up.