Ruby King’s Wedding

Interviewer: When you came home and got married, what kind of wedding you have?

Ruby:  Oh, just old fashion wedding.

Interviewer:  So what kind of wedding would that be? Like what did ye have?

Ruby:  We had lots of cake, some kind of jam, and something else,  I believe it was apple. Wouldn’t much to have then.  There was 11 of us in the family, you couldn’t afford very much. But, we had a good time, the dance was the best of it. I don’t remember a lot about the wedding, but the dance, the dance was the best of it.

Interviewer: So ye had it in a hall or in a house?

Ruby: We had it in the school in Boat Harbour, in the United School, that’s where they used to have everything. We had a great dance.

Interviewer: Everyone in the place go?

Ruby: Everybody from Boat Harbour and Brookside was invited.  Everybody that wanted to go was invited.

Interviewer: Did ye go around and invite them?

Ruby: Go around door to door to invite everybody.

Interviewer: So who played for your wedding? Somebody play the accordion?

Ruby: I’d say, everybody that could play, was  playing then.  Someone was playing the accordion, I don’t remember who played but a lot of people could play for that. No special person, everyone would chip in.

Interviewer:  Did people contribute to the wedding like in the community?

Ruby: Oh, My God, yes.  Everybody helped then, bake a cake or cookies or something like that.  Everybody helped, give something for the wedding wouldn’t do it all yourself. Everybody chipped in and helped.

Interviewer: And they didn’t all sit down to eat the one time, did they?

Ruby:  You put out whatever tables you could, everybody that was finished eating go and dance and if someone come in that wouldn’t after eating, there was still a place to sit down and eat.