Rich and Lori recently spent a weekend in the mountains of Virgina, and returned with a Daily News Record article that detailed the story of a country wedding with colors of Victorian lilac and camouflage. Below are actual quotes from, "Nothing Can Camouflage Their Love" that you
must read to believe.
Their love story, like all love stories, had a memorable beginning. Theirs began at Wal-Mart in the fall of 2006.
Mutual friends thought May and Milstead might make a good pair. May, a truck driver for Werner Enterprises in Omaha, Neb., was a laid-back country boy who liked going to tractor pulls, car races and drives in the country. Milstead, who is fondly described as "a redneck girl" by everyone from her parents to her friends, loved driving her truck, going to tractor pulls and car races, and taking drives in the country.
Soon after the proposal, she said, ‘You really CAN find anything you need at Wal-Mart.'
Then, while shopping for tuxedos at Classic Tuxedo in Harrisonburg, they spied a swatch of Mossy Oak Break-Up camouflage among the dozens of coordinating vest and tie colors offered by the store. "I asked him, ‘Do you want to go with sage green or this?' " she said, indicating the camo. He picked the camouflage; but, really, they concluded, there wasn't any doubt once they'd seen it.
David May said the leadership of the church they planned to marry in, Bridgewater Church of the Brethren, had questions about the type of camouflage the couple had chosen. Fortunately, "the church kind of came on board once they knew it was hunting camo," he said.
By the time the reception rolled around, tensions disappeared as tux-clad groomsmen changed into T-shirts and caps, bridal attendants donned flip-flops and shorts and everyone rushed to the floor to shimmy to Gretchen Wilson's "Here For The Party." Typical reception small talk was punctuated occasionally by a pumped fist and "Git ‘R' Done!" ringing throughout the hall.
Camouflage tulle intertwined with garlands of twinkling clear lights on a trellis behind a brown fondant-covered cake and a groom's cake in the shape of a John Deere tractor.
Thomas "Moose" Milstead, the bride's father, happily mingled with guests as he proudly showed off his camouflage vest. "I knew it would be different," he said, "but it works good." Both Twila May and Tina Milstead agreed the colors "had come together real nice."
"Everything turned out to be elegant," David said, as he held tight to Ginny's hand and examined their new rings. He and Ginny laughed as they said their choice may have kicked off a trend; several friends and relatives have also picked camouflage for their upcoming weddings.
After a honeymoon in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., Ginny planned to ride off into the sunset with David, spending the next two months riding shotgun as he crosses the country in his truck.
