The War Memorial sponsored the Brides Against Breast Cancer event in the middle of April and it was AWESOME!!!! I saw so many lovely brides pick out the dress of their dreams for an AMAZING price and for such a great reason! We will hopefully be doing it again next year so tell all your friend who are getting married to wait to buy their dress until after they see what we have
Here are pictures from the event:
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Many crazy things happen during weddings, but last week the most crazy thing that I have ever heard of at a wedding happened. For all those who didn't catch it on the news, yes, the mother of the bride here at the War Memorial had to deliver a baby...seriously. We did NOT take pictures of this, but here is the article:
Baby Delivered at Wedding Downtown
by Charles Benson
MILWAUKEE - New life on the lakefront. A baby was born Saturday near the steps of the Milwaukee Art Museum during a wedding party.
It's an amazing story of bad timing, but good luck.
A New Berlin couple thought they could make it to the hospital on time. But it turned out they didn't need to.
Ben Sherwood had just turned down Lincoln Memorial Drive when his wife Kimberly said it was time. They were trying to get to Saint Mary's Hospital.
"She turns to me," said Ben, "and says, 'Ben you have to pull over. We are having this baby right now.'"
"As we were pulling past the Calatrava I noticed a police officer in the driveway," Ben explained.
Ben pulled in and flagged down Officer Rick Bungertz.
"You are helping me deliver a baby," Ben told the officer. "He had the same frighten look I had," Ben said Sunday as his wife laughed.
It was time for plan B.
Ben noticed a lot of people at the Calatrava and started yelling for a dovtor.
"And all of a sudden a woman in a peach dress comes running in her heels and comes down and jumps in (to the Sherwood's car)."
It was Ann Soborowicz, an emergency room nurse.
"She said I have to push and I said, 'We can do this," Annette explained.
"Before we know it, we see the head," Said Ben. "Two pushes, full head, Second push, full body."
"I said, 'Push slowly," Soborowicz recounted. "So as she did, I just checked to make sure there was no chord around the neck and I said, ' Let's get this baby out.'"
Seconds later little Lincoln arrived to a crowd of cheers from not one but two wedding parties.
"I turned around and there's a bride there and I just had this inquisitive look," said Ben. So the bride explained that it was her mother who just caught the baby.
It was an amazing day for the mother of the bride." My daughter got married to a wonderful young man who became my son," said Soborowicz, "And there was another son born to a very special couple."
A special couple who want to make sure Lincoln never forgets where her was born.
"So we decided to add Calatrava to the middle name. So it's Lincolne James Calatrava Sherwood," Ben said.
It's on the birth certificate. Lincoln was the name the parents had picked before he was born. The police officer did call for an ambulance and doctor from a second wedding party also showed up. The Sherwoods want to thank everyone who helped and they hope to meet them all soon.
