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Article: Bride Renews Vows to Refresh Mother's Memory; Couple, Married in April, Stages Ceremony at Va. Center for Alzheimer's Patients
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- The Washington Post
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- June 20, 1995
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There were two wedding cakes, two bottles of Domaine Ste. Michelle
champagne and two lit candles on the table yesterday as Elaine
Schratwieser and Rodger Currie got married -- for the second time in
less than two months.
"I'm so excited," said the bride. "How many people get to get
married to the love of their life again a month after the first
wedding?" Then, turning to her three young nieces, decked out again
in their white wedding finery, she added, "You girls look even
prettier than the first time."
Yesterday's service -- complete with colorful wedding bouquets; a
pianist playing "Ave Maria"; a Catholic priest; and the bride's
sister, nieces and nephew reprising their original April 29 ...