Big cake for a quadruple wedding
Posted June 3, 2015 at 5:51 am by Tim Dustrude
Click to enlarge – SJ Historical Society photo
It’s this month’s History Column, shared with you again by the SJ Historical Society…
Who wants cake? The traditional wedding month of June has us remembering tales of a quadruple wedding ninety years ago at Roche Harbor — and a very big cake, as seen here. The cake was made with 60 dozen eggs, measured 42 inches in diameter, and took 23 hours to make. The master baker was Friday Harbor Bake Shop’s Lawrence Graversen, praised in local media for creating “the largest and most elaborate cake ever made in San Juan County.”
The wedding took place on March 28, 1925 and celebrated the union of four Roche Harbor couples: Vera McCrary and Hal Powell, Katherine Yount and Melvin Hjelm, Ethel Buchanan and Wesley McCrary, Augusta Chevalier and William Rogers. Bridal gowns were colorful pastels in orchid, mint green, powder blue, and maize. If you have a vintage photo of an island wedding from yesteryear and would like to see it added to the permanent collection of island history, please contact the San Juan Historical Museum.
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