2009-08-12 / Weddings

Miss Stone, Mr. Fullerton exchange vows

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Laurence Fullerton Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Laurence Fullerton Ivey Courtney Stone of Missoula, MT and Gregory Laurence Fullerton of Babb, MT were married July 25 at Hillhouse, the bride's family home at Duck Lake, Babb. Torian Donohoe of Missoula, chief appellate judge for the Chippewa-Cree Tribe, officiated.

The ceremony was held on the shore of Gretchen's Mirror under an aspen and willow arbor decorated with a moose antler and flanked by a buckboard rail fence, both handmade by the bride's brother, Sanford Stone. The mountains of Glacier National Park were visible in the background.

The bride is the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Charles Marshall Stone of Spencer, VA and Babb. She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Betty Hall Black of Millen and the late Virgil Howard Black and Mrs. Ivey Courtney Stone of Martinsville, VA and the late Sen. William Francis Stone.

The groom is the son of Robert Stone Fullerton of Babb and Sarah Spofford Pennington- Evitts of Helena, MT. He is the grandson of Marjorie Jean Ketchum of El Cajon, CA, the late John Spofford Pennington, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Ernest Fullerton.

Music for the ceremony and reception was provided by a six piece bluegrass band, Broken Valley Roadshow of Missoula.

The bride wore an ivory silk gown with a v- neck and cap sleeves. She wore a lace and silk hat with an attached chapellength veil. Her mother, the former Nancy Black of Millen, wore the same hat at her 1975 wedding. The bride wore custom made, monogrammed cowboy boots, a gift from the groom. Her bouquet of sunflowers, blue delphiniums and wheat was hand tied with raffia. She also carried her greatgrandmother's silver calling card case which held photos of her late brother, Howard Hillhouse Stone, and her late grandfather, Virgil Howard Black. The bride also wore her mother's diamond stud earrings and sapphire ring.

Dustin James Crowe of Laurel, MT was best man. The bride's brother, Charles Sanford Stone II of Charleston, SC and Babb, was groomsman.

Ushers were Sgt. Charles Hillier Davis of Iraq; Walker Louis Fullerton of Washington, DC, cousin of the groom; William Francis Stone III of Fayetteville, GA and Randolph Tyler Stone of Charleston, SC, cousins of the bride; and John James Looney, Yakima, WA and Travis Robert Looney, Bozeman, MT, brothers of the groom.

Kramer Davis Luxbacher of Pembroke, VA was matron of honor. The groom's sister, Kathryn Stone Williams of Babb, was bridesmaid. Both wore knee length salmon colored dresses and carried a hand tied bouquet of sunflowers, hypericum berries and wildflowers.

The "Bride's House Party", consisting of good friends from college, law school and Montana, included: Laura Megan Avery, Atlanta; Michelle Lynn Bergeron, Missoula; Donna Hall Bolton, Johnson City, TN; Jennifer Anne Campbell, Atlanta; Dr. Emily Lynn Deer, Salt Lake City, Utah; Layla Jane Dunlap, Missoula; Sarah Clower Hailey, Atlanta; Sarah Ann Kester, Missoula; Amanda Brooke Martin, Dublin, GA; Rebecca Lynn Moore, Portland, OR; Elizabeth Ann Murphy, Bozeman, MT; and Katherine Quinn Wilson, Nashville, TN. They wore brown knee length dresses and cowboy boots and carried bouquets of salmon colored gerbera daisies tied with raffia.

The wedding was directed by Natalee Ann Creque Rowe of Denver, CO. The bride's aunt, Mrs. Margaret Black Martin of St. Simons Island, GA helped plan the wedding and reception.

After the ceremony, the bride's parents entertained at a dinner-dance under a tent on the lawn. The bride's grandmother, Mrs. Betty Black, and her aunt, Mrs. Howard Black, both of Millen, assisted with the flower arrangements and other decorations at the reception. An antique brown crock on the buffet held a focal arrangement of sunflowers, hydrangea, stock, delphinium, wheat, hypericum berries, Indian paintbrush, Montana wildflowers and native grasses.

Chefs manned stations where guests dined on pork, chicken and cheeseburger sliders; macaroni and cheese served in martini glasses; crab cakes, chipotle slaw and sweet potato fries; grilled summer vegetables and caprese salad. The bride's friend, Margaret Ambrose- Barton of Missoula, made the tiered lemon chardonnay cake with butter cream frosting which was decorated with lemon slices, sunflowers and marzipan honey bees. The couple toasted each other with sterling and crystal champagne glasses given to the bride's paternal grandmother for her 1944 wedding.

Each guest table was decorated with flower arrangements in blue mason jars and antique yellow ware and bowls of local apricots and California almonds. The tables were covered with burlap and a variety of collected vintage cloths in yellow, peach, blue and brown. Aspen trees covered the poles and flanked the entrance to the tent.

Colorful bee boxes held guest favors of honey bears and local produce, including Flathead Valley, MT cherries, personalized drink coozies and souvenir Montana lapel pins.

Fireworks lit the sky as the couple left the reception amid a shower of birdseed.

The bride is an attorney. She and her husband are the owneroperators of Glacier County Honey Co. They live at 91 W. Shore Road, Duck Lake, Babb, MT.

Prior to the wedding, the couple was honored at several parties, including:

An engagement party given Feb. 21 at Red Rock in Palo Cedro, CA by Jackie Park- Burris and friends; a bridal shower given March 24 in Missoula by M.J.Schutte, Torian Donohoe and Evonne Wells; on July 23, Bill Davis of Bluefield, VA, Rhonda and Dean Clower of Lynchburg, VA, Sarah and Ridley Hailey of Atlanta, Catherine and Sandy Harcus of Lexington, VA, and Wanda and Danny Winn, Lynnie and Roy Mitchell, Lynn and Phil Gardner and Donna and Richard Lawhon, all of Martinsville, VA, hosted a Mexican dinner party at the Tack Barn at Hillhouse; on July 24, a rehearsal dinner and buffalo bar-b-que was given at Hooks Hide-a-Way in Babb by Greg Fullerton, Bob Fullerton and Sarah and Walt Evitts; on July 25 a bridesmaids luncheon was hosted at the bride's home by her aunt Cathy Stone and grandmother Ivey Stone, both of Martinsville.

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