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Discovering pathways to marital bliss
Brides may face challenges in both the wedding process and the transition to married life, according to licensed marriage and family therapist, Glenna Garcia. Some of the challenges young couples face arise from the fact that they do not consider financial expectations or long term friendships prior to getting married. “So they bring in these friends that they have had for a long time and how do they incorporate that into their new lives as a married couple?” Garcia said. “Sometimes it is how do they incorporate their parents? How do they separate from parents and make adult decisions?” Young couples are faced with decisions like moving, purchasing a home, and when to have children, and according to Garcia, they have to determine how they will make these decisions together. She said young couples also often neglect to consider in advance how they are going to handle disagreements. “All couples have times when they do not agree about things,” Garcia said. “When they don’t know how to talk about those things they can evolve quickly into a fight and See BLISS | Page A3
Here come the brides
STORIES BY SHEILLIE SMITLEY Danielle Ware and Zach Louk will be married May 20 at the Little Toledo Hunting Lodge in Chanute. COURTESY OF DANIELLE WARE
Heading down the aisle with style The traditional bride Danielle Ware, 21, La Harpe, and Zachary Louk, 23, Moran, met at a bowling alley five years ago when both were in high school. “He was just so nice and caring and he had a little sister that was like 8 months and he was just so sweet to her,” Ware said of her initial attraction to Louk. “He is really kind-hearted.” Ware lives at home with her parents, Jenny and Daniel Ware Jr., La Harpe. She is employed at Class Act Salon, Iola and Louk is employed at Natural Ag Solutions, Moran. After they are married, she and Louk plan to move into a house she inherited from her late grandfather, Daniel Ware
Sr. Unfortunately, the house needs remodeling. Fortunately, her dad is a building contractor. As owner of Superior Builders, Dan Jr. along with Louk are taking care of the remodeling needs. Ware said she is making the interior design choices, things like paint and linoleum. “Zach could honestly care less what anything looks like,” Ware said with a smile. Those are tasks, Ware said, that look to be more fun on Reality TV than in real life. Still, Ware is eager to have the construction completed. The couple became engaged on Valentine’s Day 2016. Six months before that, Ware had spotted the engage-
Bridal choices reflect changing trends When it comes to flowers, traditional brides are stepping outside the box. “Traditional brides are going with a lot greenery in their bouquets and unusual boutonnieres,” according to Terry Butts, owner of Terry’s Flower Shop, Humboldt. Rather than the traditional tight bouquet of roses, she said young brides are choosing freeform bouquets of multi-colored wildflowers or table settings that do not match. This is also consistent with a growing number of outdoor weddings with rustic or country themes. “It used to be that every centerpiece was exactly the same on every table. That’s not the trend that we are seeing,” Butts said. Other trends are head pieces for both flowergirls and maids of honor, and boutonnieres for the men that are predominantly greenery and non-blooming See FLOWERS | Page A6
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This bridesmaid’s head piece of variegated pittosporum carnations and berries was created by Terry Butts. At top right, a traditional bouquet includes shades of ivory and white roses, peonies and hydrangeas. At bottom right, Butts created boutonnieres using leather wrapped Protea and carnations. PHOTOS
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Wendy Bissett and Richard Burton Jr. will tie the knot April 9. COURTESY OF WENDY BISSETT
ment ring Louk had purchased. “I thought he was going to ask at Christmas, then Christmas came and he never asked, and New Year’s came and I was like, ‘OK’ and then on Valentine’s Day he proposed,” Ware said. The couple are getting married on May 20 at the Little Toledo Hunting Lodge, Chanute. Ware said the stress of planning a wedding for 250 guests is minimal — thanks to the help of a wedding planner. “Our florist has taken on so much,” Ware said of Stephanie McDonald of Stephanie’s Floral Creations, Richmond. “I am so grateful for her. She comes in and keeps me on track and tells me what to do by what date, so she has done a lot of the planning.” Still, Ware said, she worries that there will be some minor detail that gets left out. She said both sides of the family are pitching in and everyone gets along well. She picked out her dress during a shopping adventure to Kansas City that included her mother, grandmother,
Joyce Bratsch, Iola, Louk’s mother, Jennifer Louk, Moran, and her grandmother, Jonet Bland, Moran. She said the shopping posse went to two stores. In the first one the help brought dresses out to the bride-to-be. Danielle said she relied upon the reactions of her party to know how she looked. Her mother and grandmother went for the glittery type, she said. At the second store the women walked around and picked out ideas of their own, eventually narrowing the selection down to two. Danielle opted for glitter and sparkle, but because the wedding is outdoors, not too heavy. She’s also opting for sandals. Ware is not the only person that needed new attire. Her six bridesmaids will be wearing pink blush dresses in varying styles. Louk’s outfit, according to Ware, will include cowboy boots. “I don’t think I could get him to wear dress shoes,” Ware said. This is where the soon-tobe married couple differ, acSee STYLE | Page A3
Kansas tax hike legislation approved; is veto ahead? TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Republican-led Legislature voted Friday to roll back a deep tax cut championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, conceding it helped put the state in dire financial straits and setting up a possible showdown with Brownback, who has vowed not to sign it.
The state Senate voted 22-18 on Friday in favor of income tax increases that would raise more than $1 billion over two years, a day after the state House approved it on a 76-48 vote. Rep. Kent Thompson, R-La-
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Harpe, voted in favor of the rollback, as did Rep. Adam Lusker, D-Frontenac. Sen. Caryn Tyson, R-Parker, voted against the bill. Republican leaders were split on the measure, and neither the House speaker nor the Senate president voted on it. “The right thing is to get
out of this mess,” said Republican state Sen. John Doll, of Garden City, who backed the tax plan. Neither chamber gave the bill the two-thirds majority it would need to override a veto. Brownback has strongly criticized the measure as harmful to working-class families and small businesses, but he has
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stopped short of saying he would veto it. He could let it become law without his signature. The state faces projected budget shortfalls totaling nearly $1.1 billion through June 2019. Even with a big tax increase, lawmakers still See TAX HIKE | Page A2
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