Wedding Invitation Postmark – Unique Postmark Gets Help

Every spring, the post office in the tiny community named for a waterfall along the Columbia Gorge struggles to meet the demand of couples who want the unique postmark it offers for their wedding invitations.

This year, Postmaster Lloyd Davis got a little help from a group not typically involved in weddings — the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist.

Mother Mary Michael opened the doors of a nearby convent to handle the overflow demand on the 11-foot by 14-foot post office, which offers its wedding postmark once each year, on May 15.

Couples instead were able to get the postmark at the convent, a villa designed in 1916 by Portland architect Morris H. Whitehouse and purchased and restored by the Franciscan Sisters in 1975.

The 2004 version of the postmark was designed by Geri Canzler, part-time postmaster. It features two intertwined hearts and the words Marriage Station, Bridal Veil, OR.

It’s perfect, said Leanna White, who visited the convent with fiance Dave Brunker, eager to add the postmark to creamy white invitations already affixed with I love you stamps.

White and Brunker, who live in Portland, were engaged on Valentine’s Day and will marry in June. The Bridal Veil postmark, they say, is icing on the cake.

Joshua Scott and Kristin Gault heard about the special postmark from friends. They weren’t sure that they wanted to make the drive through the Columbia River Gorge on a drizzly May day. But after spending two hours in a fabric store, we said, ‘Hey, let’s go all the way,’ Scott said.

Gault said the personal touches are important — from the invitations, which will bear the Bridal Veil postmark, to a satin wedding gown, which she will make herself.

Outside, Josh Martin and Jennifer Meyer climbed the stairs to the huge front door of the convent with a bag full of invitations. The timing worked out just right, said Meyer, who will marry in Eugene on July 10.

Michael said she was not bothered by the scores of visitors preparing to take vows so different from the Franciscan Sisters’ pledges of chastity, poverty and obedience.

We exist because we want to help people, she said. That’s the Franciscan way.

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