The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-20
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heavy folqsgaW hite satin comes mex.
with Thirteen; satin plaiA,. sHtia witt
brocade aud chiffon. Three brides wore
China silk, five. heavy silver brocade. and
Two, white chiffon. One wore silver grey
brocade, one "ashes OF roses" silk, Il the
remainder travelling or reception gowns
of various hues. There has been one de.
collete bride, Miss Lille BrinkerhoH OF
summit avenue, now Mrs. Dwight Bill
ings; the others were divided between
round. square and high corsages, with
the first greatly in the lead. Nearly
every bride has carried white roses; eight,
| think, carried lilies of the valley; one
Mermet roses. and two. orchids. Almost
every bride has been wise enough to pre-
fer a fluffy tulle veil to the expensive
point lace article under which the pretti-
est girl looks like a fright as a rule. Five
brides, however. have worn valuable
point veiis which have been in every case
pinned with a flashing diamond stnr,
gift OF the groom" Diamonds and pearls
have led as jewels, and groonis have pre-
scented brides with stars, pendants, guns,
brooches, necklaces and bracelets in the
order named, 81 '433s
In hftysoue cases out of hfty-four, the
brides replies were entirely inaudible. In
thirty-flve cases the groom was stricken
,speechless. The bride entered on the arm
OF her father or some masculine relative
in all but four cases. Pink roses, pre-
AGiaDIJ -ttbe LIZ ObtSo
Echild's, have formed the chief floral decor
alton ut almost every marriage this
winter. Chrysanthen1ums In their season
came next in favor, then Bermuda lilies
in theirs. The palm we have always with
you, and every bride on the list has stood
near a bank or this useful vegetable.
Special floral designs rave been used aG
four wedding, where c~anopies of pink
roses were erected.
THE TaOUssEAUX.
As for trousseaux. one bride at least,
Miss Lydia Nugerer. now Mrs. William
Il. Mcdonald Of Sip avenue set every
stitch of her entire outfit. And speaking
of trousseaux, reminds me of trunks and
Il funny experience that a bridal couple
had last fall. which so far as | know, has
not yet found its way into print. 1t was
in the ACKNOWLEDGES; the bride, a
well known Jersey City society belle,
whose name l dare not tell, was married
to n wealthy merchant at her parents
country residence in the late fall. Some
roguish friends got possession OF the
BRIDES huge Saratogas. tied them with
flaring bows of white satin ribbon, aud at
tached a sign.-'Bridat Propertyi Ham
die With Care!" The happy puir had
meantime set off in a blackboard down
the mountain side to catch the New York
express. Fortunately, they reached the
station In time to see the trunks and re-
move the decorations, but not soon
enough to prevent the station hands from
enjoying a huge joke.
The wedding journey? Almost every
bridal couple has been forced to fight its
way through q storm OF rice, which has
an uncomfortable habit of getting down
ones neck and settling OF the coat collar
OF the mar who fondly believes
everyone supposes him an old
married man. There was one
little bride, however, now residing on the
Heights, who was wise beyond her years.
At fifteen minutes of five in the afternoon
| of the wedding day she went on an explor-
ing tour through the Kitchen closets. As
she expected, she found two ten pound
bags of rice. Without telling her plans.
she purloined a trowel. dug a deep, deep
hole In II flower bed, put in The entire
twenty pounds, covered 1T up,and sweetly
smiled. That night there were lamenta.
lions when her two brothers looked for
the rice, but the bride made a more digni
fed exit and had time to say goodbye to
her friends.
The South seems to be a Mecca fol
bridal couples, Ninety-eight per cent o
them have visited Philadelphia, Balti
more and Washington. Que travelled
through the New England states and tw,
went to the wild and woolly West. Jus
fifty per cent. of the travelling gowns
were tan brown, the others were of gray
sage green aud blue in the order named
Comparatively few have taken In
Europe. Mr.. and Mrs. II, G. Albert ant
DIR. and Mrs. Doherty of Wayne stree
being the only ocean travellers that l re
member at this moment. +
1t remains TO be seen whether Jnex
months weddings will materially yalte
these statistics. At any rate in a YER
few days we shall have u chance to see.