THE MARRIAGE
The photo above shows their wedding photo as reproduced on a matchbook cover for their 25th anniversary celebration in August 1954. Read "The Summer of 1954" letter series to find about the fraught run-up to that splashy event.
COURTSHIP
Lily and Albert met at the University of Southern California, both graduating in 1928. Lily was ostensibly a graduate student in Music since she had already graduated from Ginling College, while Albert was completing an undergraduate degree in Business.
MARRIAGE
They were married in Nanjing on August 23, 1929, at the Majestic Hotel (大華飯店 Dahua Fandian). I believe this was the same fashionable Majestic Hotel in Shanghai, where Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei Ling had been married two years earlier, albeit in a smaller hall - not a hotel in Nanjing.
