Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-10-17 | Page 7 | Unique Wedding

UNIQUE WEDDING Groom Composes Service That Banishes Ban-ishes All Gloom Colorado Springs Colo Oct 16A most unlquo wording ceremony occurred t the First Presbyterian church when Miss Eleanor Gertrude Stevens of Boston and Dr Herbert Edmund Beckham of Brooklyn Brook-lyn attended by a bridal party of fifteen were united In marriage tho ceremony being devised by tho contracting parties The ceremony wan peculiar In that no reference was made to tho conventional love cherish and obey clause nor to the proverbial till sickness poverty and death do us part the Idea being to mako the ceremony as cheerful a possible Another An-other feature of the wedding wan tho abolition of the ring service and In its stead a flower service substituted in which a white lily symbolizing 1 blameless blame-less life and a red rose typifying lasting nKecllon were the principal element On the arrival of the party at tho church tho contracting parties marched down the aisles to the music of lovo songs played I on tho organ The brldo and groom attended at-tended by their reSpective retinues then jjtood behind the altarrail while tho ceremony was read by Acv Dr Kirk I wood