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Show THE CITIZEN 10 FASHIONABLE WEDDINGS The trend of the modem fashionable church wedding with all its fuss and feathers1 seems to be alarming a number of ministers throughout the country and they are joining in voicing their protest of it. The people are losing sight of the real purpose and sacredness of the church in their efforts to gain a beautiful pictorial effect in weddings is the charge of the clergymen and sometimes after witnessing one of fashionable these weddings one cant help feel that perhaps the men of God are right. With aisles, gorgeous floral effects, elaborately gowned brides and attendants, a fashionably garbed throng of witnesses, few indeed remember that a man and woman have come to be joined in the holy bonds of wedlock in the sacred house of God, and that the ceremony, stripped of its manmade omateness, is in truth but a simple thing, a very sacrament. But, despite its showiness, who can deny the beauty of a well arranged church wedding with the swelling music from the organ resounding with the strains of Lohengrin, the virginal beauty of a young girl, clothed in filmy white with a vaporous, misty veil encircling her flushed face, as she advances down the aisle on the arm of her father ? Is it so far detached from other religious ceremonies ? Equally beautiful, on the other, hand, is the simple home wedding when it does not attempt pretentiousness. There the bride, surrounded by her family and a few chosen friends within the very walls that have watched her grow from a laughing care-fre- e child to the responsibilities of majority, is indeed quite as lovely. A prominent Salt Lake man was commenting on this modem trend of weddings last week. To me there is no essential difference in a couple being married on a theater stage and in a church with all the attendant fixtures of a fashionable wedding, he said. After all, what is either but a show, one is perhaps a bit more dignified surrounddoes the average ings ? What interest ' person who attends a fashionable wedding have in that wedding ? Is it a genuine interest in the happiness of the young couple involved, or is it not, rather, a desire to whos who and how they, and the church, are dressed for the occasion? I dislike the average church wedding. It is artificial, insincere! - -- satin-ribbon- ed There is pungent thought there, and one that bids reflection. Nuptials of the Week Of wide interest is the betrothal of Miss Florence Elizabeth Roscher to Wright E. dEvlyn of San Francisco, which was announced at a beautifuflly appointed luncheon given last Saturday by Mrs. Henry W. Doscher. Miss Doscher is one of the most popular the of societys debutantes and is a prominent young groom-elebusiness man of the coast dty. The wedding is scheduled to take place in the early spring. Monday high noon was the hour of the pretty wedding of Miss Rowena Korns, daughter of Mrs. W. H. Korns, and Charles Arthur Maly of Salt ct Lake, which took place at the home of the bride on Sixth avenue. The Rev. W. R. Sloman read the marriage service and the couple left on a late train for the Pacific coast where they will spend their honeymoon. They plan to make their home in Salt Lake. The marriage of Miss Edna Louise Wilson and Joseph R. Lawson which took place Tuesday morning in St. Marks cathedral was an interesting event of the week. Dean W. W. Fleet-woo- d performed the ceremony and a wedding breakfast for members of the two families was given at the New-houhotel following. The couple left in the afternoon for Riverside, California, where they will make their home. The bride was formerly a stu- se dent at the University of Utah, she was a member of the Ion sorority, and is the niece of k. and Mrs. Ernest C. McGarry. An interesting nuptial event wu the wedding of Miss Fern Osn and Brig H. Robinson, which took place Thursday evening at the hog of the bride on B street. Winslow j Smith performed the ceremony wl was witnessed by members of family and a few close friends, couple left on a honeymoon trip will make their home in Salt Lake, The new St. Pauls Episcopal churcj will be the scene of the wedding Miss Lorraine Ackerman and Mark A Goldy which will take place Saturday afternoon at 4 oclock. The ceremony will be performed by the Rev. A. Butcher. The brides attendants wi include Mrs. Scott Snelgrove, Mu Adrian Penrose, Mrs. L. T. Cro Miss Alice Ipsom, and Miss Login Bell. Dr. J. G. Wanner of Gres River, Wyo., will be best man, g Parties Here and There Captain and Mrs. Fred Rogers Lieutenant and Mrs. E. H. and have issued invitations for a dinner to be given at Fort Douglas a March 3. I Mrs. J. E. Homung was the gal cious hostess at a bridge party at tel home on East Seventh South strati Tuesday afternoon in honor of Ha W. F. Werner, whose birthday the celebrated. Twelve guests m bidden. Twelve friends were the guests n Mrs. George King at a bridge lunA eon at the Newhouse hotel on afternoon. time-honor- ed Miss Lorraine Ackerman and tel h fiance, Mark A. Goldy, were the ored guests at a bridge party gn Monday evening by Mr. and Mrs.il B. Penrose at their home on Fourfi avenue. A dozen guests were den to the home which was br$ with a profusion of early flowers. Dean Katherine Rogers Adams hffltfl Mills college was the guest of at a luncheon given Monday nocnH the University club by the MI branch of the American Associate SEND IT TO THE LAUNDRY laundk Distinctive Work Miss Florence Elizabeth Doscher, daughter of Mrs. Henry W. Doscher, whose engagement to Wright E. dEvlyn of San Francisco has just been announced. (Portrait by Lumiere.) Hyland 190 i |