Small Nevada Hotel Hosted Polygamist Weddings
kutv.com
November 19, 2006

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FLDS weddings in Caliente came in bunches, said Carolyn Jessop, a former FLDS member, who ran the motel for a year. Once or twice a month, beginning in the spring of 1999, Jessop would get a telephone call, telling her to plan for a weekend of weddings - some say as many as 10 in one day.

"Room 15 would have to be cleared out the day before and cleaned," she said. Jessop would scurry to see if guest reservations could be changed or canceled. When it wasn't possible, the weddings would wait.

Wedding parties and church elders would arrive in a caravan of cars about midmorning, not long after checkout for guests.

"They did not want anybody on the property," said Jessop, whose husband Merrill Jessop owned the 18-room motel with her father, Art Blackmore, for seven years until he sold it in 2004.

Each wedding was different, but girls usually arrived with their parents, including "other mothers," their father's plural wives. the rest