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Show WILSON WEDDING A FAMILY AFFAIR -SIMPLE CEREMONY PERFORMED IN PRESENCE OF LESS THAN THIRTY GUESTS. President and First Lady of the Land Depart Soon After Wedding Ceremony Cere-mony for Virginia and Will Return Re-turn to Capital in Fortnight. Washington. President Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait -ere married Saturday night, December Decem-ber IS, at 8:30, at the home of the bride. The ceremony was performed i -by Dr. Herbert Smith, rector of St. Margaret's Episcopal church, assisted Ijy the Rev. James H. Taylor, pastor of the Central Presbyterian church, which is attended by the Wilson family. fam-ily. After a day of fluctuating lights and shades and a wedding morning that Xiroke in wild storm, the sun shone -out and made possible the prediction that "happy will he the bride that the sun shines on." The guests who witnessed the ceremony cere-mony numbered less than thirty and when congratulations were over and a light wedding supper had been served, the president and his .hride motored to Alexandria, Va., and -hoarded a train which departed at 11:15 o'clock for Hot Springs, Va., where the honey-' honey-' moon will be spent. Plans for a more extended wedding n Journey were abandoned almost at the et last hour because of the possibility of si a break in diplomatic relations be-:df be-:df ' tween the United States and Austria ly( over the Ancona note. The president's itinerary -will bring iiim and the first lady of the land back to the White House on January 3. Mrs. Wilson's first public function l ake' V T . ' r JnM I ft ff Hf it M j I i Ml. M' f 1'" M I I i , x i v Cm M i j 1 M 1 V 4 f i v , ) I M MM A I) ' -uUy2 L f ff M fff J Gar vnt)Kvoo futova0 & 1 will be the Pan-American reception on, Tanaury 7. Quiet Home Wedding. Everything was in readiness for the ceremony when the president arrived and it proceeded without musia Neither the president or Mrs. Gait had anv attendants and there were no ush iers or flower-girls. Neither the army the navy, nor the diplomatic : corp. was V represented and the occasion was es sentially what both of the couple had r -wished it to be-a home wedding On the first floor of the bride, home in two communicating rooms, a Slower had -y -ith baCkSfrerUns wfi extended maidenhair ferns Jn Overborn Over-born the floor to the J 3lead tber. ; with Scotch the form of a shea and pt , leather. In th bac S 4116 C7w.thWorchid tl reflecting framed with ore m apray :scene. Above nackgroud of o orchids a083 q the canopv lerns and t he co Amerlcan were caught w U sides o beauty roses e . was a the canopy, ident WiIson LTStUt during the cere- tha present an h whic, at the head of me asparagus f 4 unied by Ep.scopa 6 The Rev. Herbert Sec Epi, VofSt. Margaret s P. o isa V, church, of which the , h p municant, was ltmJremony. ad Jopy to perform th e pastor, the Rev. James H. Taylor of the Central Presbyterian church. Mrs. William H. Boiling, the bride's mother, gave her away. The president stood to the right of the clergymen and the bride stood on their left. 4.t once, Dr. Smith began the words of the Episcopal marriage service, the president, making his responses first, and then the bride making hers. After the bride promised to "love, cherish and obey." the president placed the wedding ring, a plain band of gold, upon her finger and then, after a prayer, and while the couple clasped their right hands together, Dr. Smith . declared them man and wife. The entire party then turned to the dining room, where a buffet supper was served. The decorations there were in pink and on the buffets were banked growing ferns and pink rose. The tables were decorated with Lady Stanley rose blossoms. .On a table in the center was the wedding cake, a fruit cake of several layers high, ornamented or-namented with sprays of pink orchids in the center. Mrs. Wilson cut the cake without formality and no ar rangement was made for bestowing bits of it upon others than those in the wedding party. Married in Traveling Gown. During the ceremony and at the luncheon afterward, during which a string orchestra played, the bride wore her traveling dress, a black silk velvet vel-vet gown, with a picture hat of black beaver with no trimmings whatever except one feather slightly upturned on the left side. At her throat she wore the president's wedding gift,, a magnificent diamond brooch. The skirt of her gown was of walking walk-ing length and cut on full lines. The waist had silken embroidery of blue, shading from the deep tones of royal blue to delicate shades of pastel and was threaded with silver. Mrs. Wilson's trousseau is said by close friends to be magnificent in its extent and to have cost several thousand thou-sand dollars. Most of it is American-made American-made and the best shops in the United States were called upon to supply what what the bride's friends say is one of the largest and most carefully selected wardrobes ever gathered by any mistress of the White House. The ring used in the ceremony was raade from a nugget of virgin gold presented pre-sented to the president two' months sgo by a delegation of school children ,-om San Francisco. ' Despite the intimation from the hiite House that nothing should be sent bv any others than relatives and cipse friends, the President and Mrs. -Vilson were showered with girts that nl'led an entire room in the Gait home. TVey were of a wide variety and came rc'.m many climes and maiy peoples. Sketches of President and Bride. Irs Edith Boiling fr< was born October 14, 1872, in Wytheville, Va. Is riVect descendant of the Indian princess prin-cess Pocahontas. Nas eight brothers nd sisters. Still retains the good fooks for which she was famous in het 'vouth. Is charming, tactful aud intelligent. intel-ligent. Has devoted herself to charity rather than to society's conquests. Runs her late husband's jewelry store and brings a "dot" of $300,000 to the president. Likes baseball, golf, auto-mobiling, auto-mobiling, gocd books and music. Dresses well. President Woodrow Wilson wa. born December JS, 1S56, in Staunton, Va Passed his childhood and youth mostly in Georgia and South Carolina. Educated in public schools. Davidson college, Princeton university, University Univer-sity of Virginia and Johns Hopkins university. Married Helen Louise A.xson of Savanah, June 24, ISSo. Taught history and economics at Bryn Mawr Wesleyan and Princeton. Elected Elect-ed governor of New Jersey. Elected president of the United States in 1912. The last official act of the president before leaving on his honeymoon was the signing of an appeal for funds for Belgian relief work. |