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Miss Camille Angelle Lee and Mrs. Daniel Robert Domingues were joined in holy matrimony on Saturday, February 23, 2019, at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville.
Deacon Francis Cao officiated the 6:30 p.m. nuptials.
The bride is the daughter of Anne Luquette of Abbeville and Tedman Lee of Mt. Juliet, TN. Her grandparents are Wanda Luquette and the late Irby Luquette of Abbeville, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Lee of Erath.
The parents of the groom are David and Jenny Domingues. His grandparents are Clarence an Liz Moss of Erath and Robert and Cheryl Domingues of Erath.
Music was provided by Tommy Guidry, organist and Jennifer Melancon, vocalist.
The bride found her gown exclusively at A-Net’s Bridal Boutique. The completely modern lace gown began with an illusion neckline that continued into a graceful appliqued V-neck plunge. Covered buttons enclosed the completely illusion back, which created a unique floating button effect and finished with a cathedral length train. Her veil was trimmed with corded lace flowers, spilling over the edge of the gossamer tulle fingertip veil.
The bride carried a bouquet of hanging cream wisteria, cream roses and beautiful cream peonies, adorned wit feathers, lotus pods draped in fern and accented with winter fillers created by Gayle with Kaplan Flower Shop.
Matron of honor was Angela Bradley, sister of the bride. Bridesmaids included Kirsten Broussard, Madison Davidson, Taya Gibson, all friends of the bride; Amanda Lewis, cousin of the bride; and the Jr. bridesmaid was Brailynn Doucet, niece of the bride.
They wore navy capped sleeve crepe sheath gowns with deep V bow back. The bridesmaids had smaller versions of the bride’s bouquet. The flower girls were Dawsyn Domingues, daughter of the bride and groom; and Addison Bradley, niece of the bride. The flower girls wore a crown of baby roses and wisteria blooms. They wore ivory tea length ball gowns with tulle skirts with an ivory satin ribbon bow in back.
Best man was Drew Primeaux, friend of the groom. Groomsmen included Rene Toups, cousin of the groom; Christian Cloteaux, friend of the groom; Stephen Lee, brother of the bride; Mitchell Bradley, brother-in-law of the bride; Owen and Seth Domingues, brothers of the groom. Ring bearer was Grayson Bradley, godchild of the bride and Cameron Lee, nephew of the bride. Owen and Seth Domingues also served as ushers.
A reception was held at Black’s Reception and Banquet Hall in Abbeville, LA. The bride’s cake was a three tier cake with an ivory butter cream frosting filled with cream cheese, chocolate butter cream; and cookies and cream. It was topped with similar flowers to the bride’s bouquet.
The groom’s cake was created with a hunting theme. It was a two tiered flavored cake with cream cheese and pecan praline.
A rehearsal dinner was held Friday, February 22, 2019 at the home of Derek and Becky Meaux, hosted by the groom’s parents.
The bride is a 2015 graduate of Vermilion Catholic High School. She is employed by OEG Offshore in Broussard, LA.
The groom is a 2015 graduate of Erath High School and is employed by Automated Production in Broussard.

Ryan Bourriaque is the new State Representative for District 47.
Bourriaque won a special election on Saturday to fill the vacant spot. Bourriaque received 3,180 (63 percent) of the votes. Ben Rivera received 1,831 votes (37 percent).
District 47 includes parts of Vermilion, Calcasieu and Cameron Parishes.

ABBEVILLE – Funeral Services for Carroll Anthony “Yi-Yo” Arceneaux, 53, will be held at 2:00PM on Saturday, February 23, 2019 at Victory Lighthouse Church with Rev. Jason Randall and Rev. Jeremy Sheilds officiating. Interment will follow at St. Paul Cemetery.
Visitation will be held at Victory Lighthouse Church on Saturday, February 23, 2019 from 10 a.m. until the time of the services.
A native of Lafayette and a resident of Youngsville, Mr. Arceneaux died at 1:45 p.m. on Friday, February 22, 2019 at his residence. He worked in the Seafood Industry for over 30 years and was known for his enjoyment of fishing, his dogs, and just being outdoors. His greatest joy was his family.
He is survived by his wife of 32 years, Ellie N. Arceneaux of Youngsville; a son, Aaron Arceneaux of Lafayette; a daughter, Hannah Doyle and her husband Logan of Vinton; a granddaughter, Allison Grace Doyle; five brothers, Forrest P. Arceneaux, Jr., Harris Arceneaux, Alvin Arceneaux, Russell Arceneaux, and Mike Arceneaux; and five sisters, Audrey Blanchard, Shirley Arceneaux, Barbara Porrier, Annie Blanchard, and Yvonne Louviere.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Forrest P. Arceneaux, Sr. and Hazel Touchet Arceneaux; and two brothers, Ricky Arceneaux and Willis Arceneaux.
Serving as pallbearers will be Aaron Arceneaux, Logan Doyle, David Johnson, Mike Arceneaux, Harris Arceneaux, and Josh Jesensky.
David Funeral Home of Abbeville at 2600 Charity St. (337)893-3777 will be handling the arrangements.

Call it nerves. Call it overconfidence. Whatever it was, it went away in the second half.
The No. 5 Abbeville Wildcats may have come into their first-round game against No. 28 Bogalusa a little overconfident because, at half time, Abbeville was only ahead 30-27.
That Abbeville team who played in the first half stayed in the locker room and never resurfaced in the second half. Instead, the 2019 Wildcat team, who won 20-plus games, made an appearance in the second half and went on to blowout Bogalusa, 77-63.
In the third period, AHS built up as much as a 20-point lead, something they could not do in the first half.
“I can’t tell you what I told them,” said AHS head coach Berwick Hamilton. “I told them we are not playing the way we are capable of playing. We let them hang around.”
That was not the case in the second half.
Four minutes into the third period, Abbeville led 49-33. They outscored Bogalusa 19-3 and put the game away.
“Coach Hamilton told us at the half, we need to play our game,” said senior Tyrese Sam, who finished with 16 points.
In the first half, Bogalusa led and tied the game twice.
“We thought we had the game won before it started,” said Sam. “We were overconfident.”
In did not take Abbeville long to realize, Bogalusa was not going to be an easy opponent. At the start of the second period, AHS was down 14-13.
In the final seconds of the second period, the Wildcats had a chance to push the lead to seven; Instead, however, they committed a turnover, and Bogalusa made two points and went into the locker room down by only three points.
Abbeville’s Walter Baudoin opened the third period with a 3-pointer that got the crowd into the game, and the blowout began. AHS went on an 11-3 run.
AHS point guard Jurvonta Decuir made an NBA three-pointer, the first of his three in the third period, to give AHS its biggest lead, 11 points, at the time.
“I like what I saw in the second half. We won the game in the third quarter,” said Coach Hamilton. “We put some points up, and we played a better third quarter on defense.”
Decuir would finish with 26 points. He scored 16 of his 26 in the second half.
AHS point guard Tarrius Campbell also got hot in the second half. He scored 13 of his 18 points in the second half.
Davontae Promise added nine for AHS.