{"id":7855,"date":"2025-10-17T04:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7855\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T04:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:38:11","slug":"day-one-of-the-92nd-annual-texas-rose-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7855\/","title":{"rendered":"Day one of the 92nd annual Texas Rose Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

TYLER, Texas (KETK<\/a>) \u2014 East Texas is now two days away from the 92nd Texas Rose Festival Parade, but festivities are already starting to bloom in Tyler. Thursday started the 92nd Texas Rose Festival at the Tyler Rose Garden for this year\u2019s formal ribbon cutting.<\/p>\n

Meet the 92nd Texas Rose Queen <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a year of hard work and a long process so I\u2019m so excited it\u2019s finally here and to see how it all looks,\u201d Texas Rose Queen Avery Armstrong said.<\/p>\n

Inside the event, guests were captivated by the beautiful library display made with Tyler-grown roses from \u2018Flowers by Dylan\u2019, fully bringing to life this years \u2018Tapestry of Tales\u2019 theme.<\/p>\n

Remarks were made by Rose Festival President, Michael Youn, followed by a prayer from Michael Gossett with Green Acres Baptist Church.<\/p>\n

Princess Mary-Michael Dial and Queen Armstrong spoke about the symbolism of the rose and their excitement for the weekend. Armstrong has been in shock since the moment she was elected for the position.<\/p>\n

Texas Rose Festival Queen visits Tyler ISD elementary schools <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very surreal moment, no one ever expects to happen to them so when it finally happens and it\u2019s your turn-it\u2019s a very wild experience and I\u2019m just trying to take everything in,\u201d Armstrong said.<\/p>\n

Later in the afternoon, 300 guests met at Hollytree Country Club for a luncheon honoring generations of Rose Festival royalty.\u00a0The Rose Festival is not just a one time thing, its an event full of family traditions and creates a \u2018sisterhood\u2019 out of all participants.<\/p>\n

Speakers at today\u2019s luncheon were 1995 Rose Queen Martie Wolf Bigbie, and her aunt Nanette Oge Bernardini, the 1975 Rose Queen.<\/p>\n

Bernardini was overwhelmed with the spotlight this event put on her hometown and the chance it gives her to connect with her family. She gave some strong words of advice to this year\u2019s queen.<\/p>\n

\u201cLive and enjoy every moment! You may be hot, it may be cold. It doesn\u2019t really matter. It\u2019s your time to shine,\u201d Bernardini said.<\/p>\n

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The queen and her court will unveil their dresses on Friday at 2 p.m. during the coronation. The celebration continues on Saturday morning at the Tyler Rose Garden where families and visitors will all gather for the Queen\u2019s Tea.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KETK.com | FOX51.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KETK) \u2014 East Texas is now two days away from the 92nd Texas Rose Festival Parade,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7597,2604,7596,7595,7599,7594,7598,27,29,28,7592,7593],"class_list":["post-7855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-avery-armstrong","tag-east-texas","tag-michael-gossett","tag-michael-youn","tag-nanette-oge-bernardini","tag-rose-festival","tag-rose-queen","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-rose-festival","tag-tyler-rose-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}