Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-07-24

and the bridesmaids bouquets. If the
bride wants orange blossoms at sea-
son when they are scarce this litule
token of sentiment will not cost less
than $40 or $40. The average bridal
bouquet will cost about that in the
winter anyway. Rolls and rolls of
narrow taifeta ribbon are tied on these
bouquets in shower style. Orchids get
dreadfully expensive also at times, par
tioularly in the spring. when the de-
mand for them for wedding flowers is
so great and there are but few to be
had. On the day Miss Letter was mar
ried the orchid growers had compara-
lively very few to offer. and the
wealthy brides in New York and Bos-
ton would have nothing else. Miss
Letter wanted them, too, and there
were hundreds of them used in the dec
Grafton of her home. 1t is needless to
say they cost enough to provide de-
cent living for modestly inclined per-
son for year.
This estimate given does not include
weddings conducted ON the scale of
the Letter -Curzon or the Murphy Grant
nuptials. These two events stand out
distinct in the history of the past
months elaborate events. The floral
decoration was not only profuse in each
instance, but it was most artistic. 1t
required the services of dozen men
for two days preceding the event pre-
pairing for spectacle which scarcely
lasted more than two hours all told. A
couple of hundred dollars more can be
safely added to the cost of these
brides gowns. coming as they did
with the glory of the namo of for.
eign designer And So with every
other item in the list.
At the Murphy Grant wedding thirty
guests sat down to n regular breakfast
of nine courses. which is the most
elegant way possible to entertain the
guests at n wedding feast. Several
hundred white satin boxes of wedding
cake were sent to friends all over the
country. At the Letter wedding the
cake was in white satin boxes, dis-
mond shape, with the two initials in.
closed in a golden scroll on the cover.
The custom of giving wedding pres
ents has been revived, to the extreme
delight of the jewellers, but it does not
necessarily follow that it is incumbent
on everybody to send expensive ones.
1t is the great opportunity for rich
families to bestow magnificent gifts
at the weddings of their relatives. Out
side of the substantial evidences of
family affection, the great part of the
gifts are made up Of pretty but simple
and inexpensive trifles. Weddings oc-
cur SO frequently in the households of
friends that to keep making such cost
ly gifts would cause tremendous hole
in ones annual income.
1t is generally understood that the
expenses attendant upon June we'd
ding can be made very much less than
the tariff named above, or so many peo-
pie would never be able to accomplish
matrimony. Floral decoration of the
house and church can be arranged at
only trif1ing cost, if those who set
about doing it do not mind taking the
time to gather the daisies of the field,
dog-wood blossoms and garden flowers
generally, and then placing them in
position. Bridesmaids dresses can be
achieved in white Swiss or orgapdie
at So apiece, provided the materials
are not taken to a dressmaker. where
ten dollars worth of Innings and other
accessories and the making would
easily run up the cost to twenty-five.