No Honeymoon!

March 21, 1930  Martin Barkman stayed here for night.  In the afternoon we went along with John H. Reimers to Fowler.  C. Dalkes and John F. Reimers came over.  For faspa we went to Peter Bartels.  Back home again for the evening.

Cornelius and Margaret did not take a honeymoon.  In fact, it did not become common for Mennonites from Meade to take honeymoons until the 1950s.  And then it was only a brief, one- or two-day trip to a nearby city or some other attraction.  They stayed at her mother’s house with the rest of the wedding company.  And then they resumed their routine of visiting relatives because Margaret would want to take advantage of every opportunity to see her relatives before she and Cornelius departed for Manitoba.