The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-17
GOSSIP ABOUT WEDDINGS.
The Minister'S Mistake-PatcheS or
Brides Dresses for Quilts.
From the .Nelg York Slln.

They say the devil laughs every time be
hears wedding bells. He must be on the
broad grin nowadays. At some OF the fash
ionabIe churches in New York it is hardly
necessary to take down the awnings or take
up the carpets leading from the portals TO
the curbstone, from Monday morning TO
Saturday night: and one parson IS rumored
| TO have married so many couples that, when
baptismal party confronted him, he asked,
What name"
Susan Ann" replied the godfather.
"Susan, do you take this man for your
! lawfully welded husband, for richer or
! poorer, for better or worse, through SICK
| ness and -"
For mercy's sake, don't marry me to the
baby whispered the godfather
Thus brought up with a round turn, the
! good minister stopped in time, and
| christened Susan Ann instead of marrying
her at the unusual age Of three months.
The marriage fees of some clergymen
must have amounted to more than their
salaries last month. There is hardly any
service a man so willingly pays his money
out for, unless it be for a divorce some
years later The pastor of a wealthy church
welded a rich man recently to very beau
tiful girl, who had been an intimate friend
for years Of the parsons wife. She started
from the church door on a trip to Europe,
and as the minister shook congratulatingly
the hand of the new groom he felt hard
substance slipped into his own 1t turned
out to be handsome locket pendant, with
the brides initials and those of the pastors
wife done in diamonds.
I'm put your picture in it.at once" said
the pleased lady 1T is the first wedding fee
that has come to me-"
So she posted off to photographer, and
ordered a reduced head of her husband. She
l0h a1-llrr -
formed her that, folded and refolded and
damned in behind the glass, they had found
a 500 bill. The Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Psalter
Service are awaiting letter from the other
side to know to whom the money belongs,
as the Mrs. Rev. DR.. S. vows it goes with
the locket, and the locket belongs to her.
The craze for bits of wedding cake to
dream on has given place to a mania for
patches of wedding dresses to incorporate
into quilts OF course the dressmaker is
the source from which these pieces are
CLEANED. Who ever heard of a dressmaker
sending bits home to patch the bridal
dreSsi So the mOdistes are besieged
by their customers for scraps of the
wedding costumes they make. The demand
exceeds the supply. So one clever woman
buys remnants of white satin or MORE, and
rends the pieces into patches to suit her Gus
toners. AT a recent wedding the bride de-
termined to improve on the floral bell bust
ness. As her own and her bridegrooms
names begun with W, the florist got up a
rather squat, long, drawn-out W. Not a
soul caught its significance, but guest
described the ceremony as being performed
under a nice floral yoke. Flowers are the
rule at all swell weddings, and in fragrance
and beauty the new life should always
be begun. A lady determined to be
unique if anything in her wed
ding appointments. She was a mass
of pearls-pearls edged top, bottom,
and the sides of her frock; sprays of pearl
flowers confined her veil and a few clusters
of the same with gathered founce of point
lace around them, she carried in her hand as
a bridal bouquet. 1t was stiff and theatrical
looking. Her dear Old mother came in be-
hind her with mass of white lilac in the
folds of her lace handkerchief that crossed
her bosom, and huge bouquet of the fra
grant blossoms in her white-glOVed hands
She looked more like bride, with all these
flowers and a silver silk gray grown, than
did her stately daughter, and the clergy
man looked so often at her that it is dollars
to dOughnuts he married ma to the man in
stead of Mary Ann.
Orange blossoms have lost their grip on
CUSTOM and there are so many flowers pref
tier it IS not TO be regretted. In Spain
orange blossoms are used to deck the dead
and their waxen, stiff appearance makes
them eminently suitable. White lilacs,
white roses and white hyacinths of the
same variety are far more beautiful White
hacs have been cultivated till they are so
delicate and graceful in their improved
state that they enjoy great favor. With
orange blossoms have disappeared some of
the tulle that used to figure for bridal wells
There have been unusual sales in h gh-
class lace for wells A veil three
yards long and one wide of point d'Alen-
con or duchess is magnificent finish to a
fine dress. The old style of a huge square
of blond lace, thrown like tablecloth over
a brides head and kept on by a diadem OF
orange blossoms mine times out of ten
artificial, was always getting the blushing
bride into difficulties AT the time this
head rigging was in vogue the custom was
to kiss the bride. Sometimes the crowd
would surge round the poor woman to kiss
her rapturously through the veil and a lot
of damp kisses would stick the filmy sub
stance on her cheeks and ears and lay it like
a plaster on her blushing nose, from which
she would pick it Off only to find it glued to
her chin. Then if She undertook to throw
it off it invariably hung in a towering,
cloud-like fashion on the orange blossoms,
making her look as If the domestic cyclone
had struck her.