Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

WEDDING VEIL

Date Range From

1970

Date Range To

1980

Materials

LACE, TULLE

No. Pieces

1

Length

80

Width

27

Description

1 WHITE 2 LAYER TULLE VEIL TRIMMED WITH LACE, ATTACHED TO A VERY WIDE HEADPIECE. HEADPIECE IS COVERED IN WHITE LACE AND IS CURVED TO FIT ON HEAD FROM JUST ABOVE ONE EAR TO THE OTHER. NO DAMAGE.

Subjects

CLOTHING-HEADWEAR

Historical Association

PERSONAL CARE

History

WORN BY ARLENE HARVIE DURING HER MARRIAGE TO DANIEL DRISCOLL. COUPLE WERE MARRIED ON OCTOBER 30, 1977, AND HAD A HALLOWEEN THEME. THERE WAS A MIX-UP WITH THEIR WEDDING CAKE AND IT READ "HAPPY HALLOWEEN". *UPDATE* IN 2017 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT RUTHANN LABLANCE CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF CLOTHING, INCLUDING A WEDDING DRESS DONATED BY HAZEL HARVIE. THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WAS COMPILED USING ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD AND FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THE DRESS, ARELENE DRISCOLL. ARLENE DRISCOLL (NEE HARVIE) IS THE DAUGHTER OF DWAINE HARVIE AND HAZEL HARVIE (NEE WARNOCK). SHE WAS MARRIED TO DANIEL “DAN” DRISCOLL ON OCTOBER 28, 1977. DAN IS THE SON OF JOSEPH “JOE” DRISCOLL AND LILLIAN BERNICE DRISCOLL (NEE SKYES). IN HER INTERVIEW, ARLENE GAVE DETAILS ABOUT HER WEDDING: “WE WERE ACTUALLY SCHEDULED TO GET MARRIED, I THINK IT WAS NOVEMBER 5TH OR 7TH, A SATURDAY … WE HAD CHANGED THE DATE … BACK TO OCTOBER … AND DECIDED NOT TO TELL ANYONE THE DATE … WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE A LONG WAY AWAY.” ARLENE DESCRIBED CALLING HER MOTHER’S BOSS, TO ENSURE THAT HER MOTHER WOULD HAVE THE WEDDING DAY OFF WORK: “I CALL MY MOM’S BOSS AND SAID ‘WE’RE GETTING MARRIED, WE DON’T REALLY WANT ANYONE TO KNOW, BUT IT’S GOING TO BE A KIND OF A SURPRISE, SO WE’LL TELL THEM THE NIGHT BEFORE OR THE DAY OF, BUT … MY MOM IS KIND OF A GIRLY GIRL … SO SHE WOULD NEED TO GO AND GET HER HAIR DONE AND SHE WOULD NEED TO GO GET HER NAILS DONE … HE SAID ‘NO PROBLEM, SHE CAN HAVE THE DAY OFF. COMPLETELY NOT A PROBLEM, I WON’T EVEN TAKE IT OUT OF HER HOLIDAYS.’ I MEAN, HE WAS REALLY, REALLY GOOD. SO, MY MOM GOT THE DAY OFF.” WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE HAPPY HALLOWEEN CAKE, ARLENE EXPLAINED: “I HAD SAID TO DAN ‘I WANT TO GET A WEDDING CAKE.’ AND AT THE TIME, HE DIDN’T KNOW WHERE TO GO, SO HE HAD REALLY LIKED THE CAKES AT VALUE VILLAGE AND THAT’S WHERE LONDON ROAD MARKET IS TODAY. AND SO, HE WENT THERE AND HE SAID TO THE GUY – AND MY HUSBAND IS A REAL JOKESTER, HE’S REALLY EASY GOING, AND ALWAYS MAKING FUN. SO I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE SAID TO THIS GUY. BUT HE DID TELL HIM IT WAS A WEDDING CAKE. NOW WHETHER THE GUY THOUGHT IT WAS A BIG JOKE, BECAUSE IT WAS SO CLOSE TO HALLOWEEN … THE MORNING OF, HE WENT TO PICK IT U … AND IT WAS DECORATED WITH GOBLINS AND A COW JUMPING OVER THE MOON AND PUMPKINS AND ALL OF THAT. THE GUY HAD MADE A WHITE CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE ICING WITH ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT, LIKE PUMPKINS AND CATS, AND THERE WAS ALL THIS STUFF HAPPENING ON THE CAKE, ALL VERY HALLOWEEN-Y. AND DAN’S, DAN JUST … DAD DOES NOT GET FLAPPED ABOUT ANYTHING, SO HE SAID ‘OOPS, I’M NOT SURE MY FIANCÉE’S GOING TO LIKE THIS, I HOPE, MAYBE I WON’T TELL HER TILL AFTER WE GET MARRIED.’ (LAUGHS) AND THE GUY SAID ‘OH MY GOODNESS, YOU WERE SERIOUS? THIS IS REALLY YOUR WEDDING CAKE?’ … [DAN] CALLED ME, IT WAS JUST TYPICALLY DAN, AND HE SAYS TO ME ‘WELL, I’M GOING TO TELL YOU, I’VE GOT GOOD NEWS AND I’VE GOT BAD NEWS … WHAT DO YOU WANT FIRST?’” ARLENE CHOSE THE BAD NEWS AND DAN RELAYED WHAT THE CAKE LOOKED LIKE. WHEN SHE ASKED WHAT THE GOOD NEWS WAYS, DAN TOLD HER: “BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS, THE GUY AT VALUE VILLAGE GAVE IT TO US FOR NOTHING.’ BECAUSE OF THIS BIG ERROR, SO WE GOT OUR WEDDING CAKE FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. AND HE KNOWS ME KIND OF WELL, BECAUSE THEN I WAS QUITE PLEASED. (LAUGHS) BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT’S A NICE STORY EVERYBODY’S TALKED ABOUT EVER SINCE, ABOUT OUR HALLOWEEN CAKE. IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE A HALLOWEEN CAKE, BUT THE GUY AT VALUE VILLAGE WAS SO WONDERFUL, HE WAS JUST A REALLY NICE GUY. AND I’M SURE IT WASN’T HIS CONFUSION, I’M SURE IT WAS DAN’S TEASING THAT KIND OF MISLEAD HIM.” WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE ATTENDANTS AT THE WEDDING, ARLENE REPLIED THAT HER BRIDESMAIDS WERE HER SISTERS DWAILA HARVIE AND GERALDINE “GERRI” KOSKOWICH (NEE HARVIE). “WE ALWAYS HAD NICE DRESSES AND STUFF BECAUSE THAT WAS IMPORTANT TO MY PARENTS, SO, MY SISTERS HAD SOME LOVELY DRESSES AND SO I JUST SAID ‘PICK A DRESS, I DON’T CARE IF THEY’RE NOT THE SAME.’” DAN’S TWO BROTHERS BOB AND TIM DRISCOLL STOOD UP WITH DAN. ARLENE DESCRIBED THEIR RECEPTION FOLLOWING THE CEREMONY: “WE KEPT IT PRETTY MUCH FAMILY, BUT [DAN’S] SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW ACTUALLY HAD A BIG PARTY FOR US AT THEIR HOUSE, AFTER THE WEDDING, AND WE HAD A DINNER. BACK THEN, SVEN ERICKSEN’S HAD A PLACE DOWNSTAIRS THAT YOU COULD RENT FOR SORT OF A NICE SUPPER, SO THAT’S WHAT WE DID. WE, DAN AND I RENTED SVEN ERICKSEN’S, AND WE HAD A CATERED SUPPER WITH EVERYBODY THERE, AND THEN WE WENT TO HIS SISTER’S AND BROTHER’S AND HAD A PARTY. AND IT WAS REALLY FUN.” WHEN ASKED ABOUT HER DRESS, ARLENE HAD THE FOLLOWING TO SAY: “I DIDN’T BUY IT AS A WEDDING DRESS. I BOUGHT IT BECAUSE A REALLY GOOD FRIEND OF DAN’S WAS GETTING MARRIED IN HAWAII AND I WANTED SOMETHING TO WEAR … I BOUGHT THAT TO WEAR AT THE WEDDING. BUT WHEN I GOT HOME AND SHOWED MY MOM AND MY SISTERS THEY SAID ‘YOU CANNOT WEAR THAT TO HER WEDDING, BECAUSE IT’S WHITE AND IT LOOKS LIKE A WEDDING DRESS.’ I SAID, ‘IT ISN’T A WEDDING DRESS’ … BUT THEY WOULDN’T LET ME WEAR IT, SO I HAD TO GO BUY SOMETHING ELSE TO WEAR AT THAT WEDDING IN HAWAII … AND THEN DAN ASKED ME TO MARRY HIM, AND WELL … I THOUGHT ‘I KNOW WHAT I’M GOING TO DO, I’M GOING TO WEAR IT AS MY WEDDING DRESS.’ I LOVED THE OUTFIT, I LOVED IT SO MUCH THAT I COULDN’T, MY MOM MADE ME GO LOOKING AT WEDDING DRESSES … AND I FOUND NOTHING I LIKED LIKE I LIKED THAT OUTFIT. I JUST LOVED IT, SO I FIGURED ‘YOU GET TO DO WHAT YOU GET TO DO. IT’S YOUR WEDDING, YOUR DAY.’ AND I HAVE TO ADMIT … IT WAS MORE ABOUT WHO I WAS MARRYING THAN HAVING ALL THE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE.” SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR COPIES OF THE ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD AND FOR A TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW WITH ARLENE DRISCOLL.

Catalogue Number

P19980025002

Acquisition Date

1998-04

Collection

Museum

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