BRIGGSDALE — In front of more than a hundred women, in the middle of a fashion show of wedding dresses, he stopped the show.
To celebrate the beginning of Briggsdale's centennial, the 100 Years of Love Bridal Fashion Show on Saturday afternoon showed a parade of wedding dresses dating back almost a hundred years. It was a procession of mostly white satin and silk, showing dresses from each of the decades dating back to 1914.
But, when Heather Showers came on the stage to model her mother's wedding dress from 1979, her boyfriend, Jeromy Krug, stepped up with her. And proposed.
“I thought it was a good time to propose,” Krug said later. “We've been together awhile, and to propose to her while she was wearing her mother's wedding dress seemed like a good opportunity.”
After she said “yes” to her new fiance, Showers said she was completely surprised. “We've been together three years,” she said. “It looks like I was the only one who didn't know he was going to ask.”
According to show organizer and Heather's mother, Kathy Showers, their future son-in-law talked to Heather's parents the night before the show and proposal. He was already assigned a duty in the show, escorting the bride models off the stage.
The show featured dresses from Jessica Peterson Holton, married last year, in the dress of Etta Wendt Ball, who was married in 1914. Her daughter, Merietta West, modeled the dress.
“My parents were married in Kansas, and moved out to eastern Colorado to a two-room house,” West said. “That was the beginning of the Ball Ranch.” That ranch, one of the largest in the area, is located west of Briggsdale.
The show opened with two flower girls: Bailey Eerikson wore a flower girl dress from a 1974 wedding, and Claire Lindenmayer's dress was from a 1948 wedding.
Kathy Showers explained to the crowd they had some difficulty finding models for dresses from the 1930s and 40s, because of the small waists of the dresses from those eras. Some of the models wore several dresses in the show, because they were thin enough to fit.
The show was attended by more than 100 women of all ages. Pearl Jones Burmood Eckhardt, a 1939 graduate of Briggsdale High School, came up from Kersey to attend.
“It was wonderful,” she said of the show. “There were even dresses from the 1940s when I was married.”
Eckhardt was first married in 1942. After her husband died, she married again in 2001. She now lives in Kersey with her husband.
One of the featured dresses in the show was that of Mary Sierman White, married in 1921. “It was the first official wedding in Briggsdale,” Kathy Showers said.
Briggsdale's Centennial Celebration opened with the fashion show and tea, but will feature a community parade and picnic next weekend.
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