The wedding was planned before the trip through Yellowstone Park!

Della Kurtz and John F. Shaffner were married on 12 September 1913.

The original invitation (I have the envelope too)

Included in the invitation.

It has always amazed me how Grandpa Shaffner was able to keep all the memorabilia all the years of homesteading as well as moving into town.  

But family history was very important to him.

I have always thought these pictures could have been taken as "engagement pictures".

John & Della's marriage license from Beaverhead County, Montana

I found an article describing the wedding in the The Anaconda Standard paper of 14 September 1913.  (I copied it as it was written in the newspaper.)

A pretty wedding was solemnized this afternoon in the parlors of the manse when Miss Della Kurtz of Munsey, Pa., and John T. Schaffner of Simms, N. D., were united in marriage by the Rev. E. V. Ostrander.  The young couple were attended by Miss Lucy Kurtz and James Kurtz, brother and sister of the bride.  Following the ceremony the wedding party drove to the Oliver Kurtz house on the bench east of town, where a wedding dinner was served.  The young people will leave Tuesday for their home in Simms, N.D.where the groom is engaged as a telegrapher. 

(The Anaconda Standard, Sunday Morning, September 14, 1913, page 7)

John & Della Shaffner several years later