White Owl, fiancee postpone wedding

The nuptials are on hold, but there will still be a party this Sunday afternoon.

Julia Lee, 22, and a 2004 Lawrence High graduate, said her planned wedding to a man popularly known around the Kansas University campus as White Owl has been postponed.

But the couple still plans to have a celebration from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Loose Park Rose Garden in Kansas City, Mo., where they will “encourage everyone to join us in vowing to love our own selves in sickness and health,” Lee wrote in an e-mail to the Journal-World.

White Owl, 61, is also known as musician Saul Tucker or Jimmy Neil Tucker, but he has recently become popular on campus for his white beard and appearances and dances at KU events.

As for the wedding, Lee said all of the recent media attention has made things stressful, so the couple wants to key it down. They have also been talking about a private ceremony later when their KU friends return to Lawrence.

The couple could not be reached by phone on Friday.