A good family friend was married at the Old Sheldon Church Ruins on Saturday afternoon. I have passed the Ruins time after time riding down Old Sheldon Church Road without a second glance. Brad is a history buff (he is very well-rounded!)and particularly enjoys SC history and I was excited to visit it again (I remember briefly going there on a elementary school field trip) and appreciate the history behind it. It was originally named Prince Williams Parish Church, erected in 1745-55 and it was burned twice. Once during the American Revolution by the British and again by Sherman's army and the walls still refused to fall--what is there now is what is left 120 years later! No doubt about it---it is an absolutely beautiful place to have a wedding ceremony! Maggie (the bride) is such an easygoing person and she did not let the fact that the bottom fell out right before the procession, the wedding party walked down the aisle with umbrella's, and her couture gown was dragging in the mud bother her one bit. The punchline from her dad at the reception was that the "roof leaked"---take notice that there is no roof!
Entrance to the Ruins
The Voices of El Shaddai
Inside the Ruins
Canopy of Umbrellas
Brad was recently invited to plink around with his metal detector on some property in Beaufort that has some tabby ruins.....thanks for the invite Silvia (and Lou too!)....being at the wedding has gotten his wheels turning and he has already started to do some background research!
Inside the Ruins
1 comment:
beautiful! hate that rain thing - always happens!
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