Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-17
summer weddings.

when we ask our friends to visit us we can well
afford to be unusually courteous. The brief,
curt and not too friendly announcement, "Mr.
and Mrs. John H. Brown request your pres
ence," etc, ETC., may well yield to the much
more elegant and formal compliments
FROM high social authority in New York we
cordial, also worthy of imitation: MIR and
Mrs. Winslow Appleblossom request the
pleasure of your company at the wedding re-
noon, June the sixteenth" This is without
CARDS or names, presuming that the latter will
Another very comprehensive and useful an
| nouncement of a wedding, from a lady living
ous Oh Town. conveys. however, on one sheet of
| the bride:
| Mrs. Seth Osborne
announces the marriage of her daughter
| Marguerite
MI. Joseph vendor,
Wednesday, September the ninth,
Bristol, Connecticut.
AT Home after January first,
at 75S Wood Street.
This card of announcement is model of con-
ciseness, and answers the oft repeated question:
Nv mere shall we go to find the married couple
In arranging the house for the spring we'd
Glng the florists have hit upon a new device of
having only one flower in masses; so we hear of
the apple-blossom wedding, the lilac wedding
the lily wedding, the rose wedding and the
daisy wedding. So well has this been carried
out That at a recent daisy wedding the brides
lace ana diamond ornaments bore the daisy
patIern ana each bridesmaid received q daisy
pin with diamond center.
This fashion ofmassing single flower has its
advantages when that flower is the beautiful
ieathery lilac, as ornamental as a plume: but it
| is not to be commended when flowers are as
SombrG as the violet, which nowadays suggests
funerals Daffodils are lovely and original, and
apple blossoms make a hall in a Queen Anne
mansion very decorative. No one needs to be
tOid that roses look better tor being maSsed and
1T is pretty cOncet for a bride to make the
flower which was the ornament Of her wedding
her flower for life.
The passion for little girls as bridesmaids re-
celNes much encouragement at the spring and
summer weddings. One is reminded Of the
these darlings. clad in Kate Greenaway hats,
walk up the aisle, preceding the bride. The
young brother OF the bride, a mere boy, who, in
gave her away, also presented q touching pic
ture. 1t has become a fashion now to invoke
supposed to be alone at the beck and call of
those whom Time had sanctified.
The bridal dresses are usually of white satin
and point lace, a preference for tule wells being
very evident. pin for the veil, with dia-
mona ornament ii, and five large diamonds
effect and is novelty The groom at a recent
wedding gave cat's-eyes set round with dia-
monds to his ushers for scarf pins, the cat's-eye
being considered very lucky stone.
The ushers and the groom wear very large
boutonnieres OF stephanotis and gardenas, or
n
their button hole.
AT one OF the country weddings of the spring
a piper in full Scotch costume discoursed most
eloquent music on the lawn during the wedding
ceremony. This was u compliment to the
groom, who is a captain in a Highland reyi-
ment.
A prevailing fashion for wedding presents is
to give heavy pieces of furniture such as side
boards, writing-tables, cabinets and pianos.
A 1aVorlte dress for travelling is heliOtrOpe
cashmere, with bonnet to match. For a dark
bride nothing is more becoming than dark blue
made with white vest and sailor collar. Gray
cashmere with steel passementerie has also
been much in vogue. A light gray mohair,
trimmed with lace of the same color, was also
much admired.
We have mentioned the surroundings of the
brides, but have not spoken of the back
ground. A screen hung with white and purple
n hanging curtain of Jacqueminot roses form ed
the appropriate setting OF another. Perhaps the
most regal of these floral screens was one formed
OF costly orchids, each worth a fortune. One of
the most beautiful of the spring wedding dresses
was made OF cream white satin over a tulle pet
tlcoat, the tulle being held down by long dag
onal band of broad pearl embroidery, the satin
train trimmed with bows of ribbon in true
lovers knots embroidered in seed-pearls; a
shower OF white lilacS trimmed one side of the
skirt.
Another simple dress was made of white silk,
trimmed with old Venetian point, the train OF
striped ivory point and white satin depending
ala Vatican from the shoulders and fastened
at the point of the waist. At the side three large
pleats formed a drapery, which was frnged with
orange blossoms.
From England we hear of the most curious
combinations as to travelling dresses. Biscuit
colored canvas, embroidered around the polo
naise in green and gold, while the skirt is edged
wooden laceS OF all cOOrS make very good
effect in the ''going-away dress of a bride.
The season which holds a coming royal we'd
ried. The Princess Beatrice will be married to
Prince Henry OF Battenberg in the parish church
Of Whippingham, Isle Of Wight, On thursday,
raj service and music of the most elaborate
kind will alone make this wedding more splen-
did than one of our spring weddings. The queen
will give the princess away, and Prince Henry
of Battenberg will be attended by his brother.
Prince Alexander. The bridemaids will be the
nieces OF the Princess some Of whom are mere
children. The ceremony will take place early
In the afternoon, and after dejeuner on the
| will drive 10 Quar- Abbey, where they o viii
stay for u week, going off after in the Victoria
and Albert for cruise to finish the honeymoon.
we are often asked by summer brides whether
they should wear bonnets or round hats for
their travelling dress. We unhesitatingly say
made Wshoasy is
light and transparent; strings of red velvet and
2 bunch clu Of req plums complete this bonnet.
velvet and black net, makes pretty travelling
bonnet Open-work black straw trimmed with
with a "split 'front.'" is a very becoming and ap-
propriate bonnet for 4 spring costume.
pink 1aille slip covered with dotted muslin, not
| tied in at the waist, and the broadcast of high
Gainsborough hats OF pale pink silk with i'm
mense bows, from the well-known pictures of
GainsbOrough's pretty women.
But If a summer bride must travel in a bon
net, there is no reason that her trousseaIl-
should not contain large Leghorn hat the
| straw caught up on the back in long loops the
spaces between filled in with bows OF helfotrope
ribbon. The crown should be covered with
white ostrich tips. This is a very becoming nat
for a lawn party.
1t would be a charming addition to our well.
known and somewhat WORKOUT Wedding
March, always played as the bride walks up the
| aisle, if a chorus of choir boys would sing an
epithalamium, is now done in England.
couple would be in keeping with the child bride
maids and the youthful brothers. Nay they
would suggest those fescoes of the Italian villas
where HyInen and Cupid, two immortal BOYS.
always precede the happy pair.
1t Is q pleasant part of weddings everywhere
that the faithful domestics who have loved the
bride from childhood are expected to assist by
their presence at the ceremony, each wearing d
wedding favor made by the fair hand of the
bride herself An amusing anecdote is told of
America, was to drive the bride to church. Not
knowing him. particularly as he was q new ad-
ditiOn to the force, the bride sent him his favor
by the hands of her maid. But Yorkshire de-
cided stoutly against receiving such vicar1ous
Offering, and remarked, "Tell she I'd rather
ave it from she" And So sshe" was obliged
| to come down and affix the favor to his livery
coat, or he would have resigned the 'sribbonSn
The nurses, the cook, the maids, and the men,
servants in England always expect a wedding
| favor and q small gratuity at O wedding and in
this country should be remembered by u box of
CAKE and possibly by q new dress, cap or bon
net, or something to recall the day.
The plan OF serving the refreshments at but.
fet all through the reception retains its place as
the most convenient and appropriate Of forms.