At her sister’s wedding, Angela (Reinhardt) Carpenter noticed an old wedding photo on one of the centerpieces. The bride and groom in the photo are running joyously past a group of bridesmaids, groomsmen and wedding guests in front of the church where they were just married. Nearby, children shout and join in on the celebration...
...Her mother set the record straight: The bride and groom in the old photo were Angela’s maternal grandparents, Karla and Donald Gorrell. The photo was taken on their wedding day, Sept. 13, 1959, on the steps of the Presbyterian Church in Powell.
Angela, a native of Montana, came to Powell to do her student teaching. Five months after her sister’s wedding, Angela got engaged to Trevor Carpenter, a Powell police officer and the man of her dreams...
...When the couple decided to get married in Powell, Angela’s mother suggested re-creating the Gorrells’ wedding photo.
Angela loved the idea. So, when she contacted a photographer, re-creating her grandparents’ photo was one of her first requests...
...So the three of them studied the old wedding photo together to decide how they wanted to recreate that photographic moment.
Angela and Trevor were married on Sept. 23 at New Life Church. But, before the wedding, the bride and groom gathered with their wedding party and family members on the steps of
Union Presbyterian Church.
It didn’t take long to re-create the 1959 wedding photo, Snelling said.
From the Powell Tribune