The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-07
MISS VANDERBILT A BRIDE.
HER FATHER GIVES HER AWAY
AND THEN LEAVES THE CHURCH.

brilliant Company Present to Wit
ness the NuptiaIs, But the Wander
biit Family Conspicuous by Their
Absence-NO Invitations Sent Them
by the Brides MOfher-A Wedding
breakfast Served on Gold at Mrs.
VanderbiIt's Home.
New York, Nov. 6.-The much-talked-of
wedding of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt and
the Duke of Marlborough took place to-
day in St. Thomas church. The hour set
for beginning the ceremony was p
o'clock. At that hour the church was
thronged with representatives Of New
York's smartest society, gathered to wit
ness the ceremony. The church was gor7
geously decorated for the occasion, the
aoraI display being without doubt the
most lavish that New York has ever
known. At Z o'clock the officiating
clergy attired in their clerical robes en-
tered from the vestry room. Bishop Lit
tleiohn, who officiated. followed by Bishop
Potter and Rev. John Wesley Brown, the
rector of the church, took their station
at the chancel and awaited the arrival
Of the bride and bridegroom.
AT a few minutes before u o'clock the
carriages containing the bride, her moth
William X. Vanderbilt reached the
church on the minute of y o'clock. He
escorted his daughter TO the altar.
When all was ready for the ceremony
the church was closed and no one was
allowed to enter, whether or not they
were provided with a card.
Mrs. Vanderbilt was escorted up the
center aisle to the front pew on the north
side which she occupied with her other
children. The bridal procession formed
in the southern vestibule. The organist
then began the wedding march from Lo-
The Duke of Marlborough, with his
best man, his couisn, Hon. Ivor Guest.
entered the church from the vestry room
and took their place at the right of the
chancel and awaited the coming OF the
bride. The duke wore a frOck suit OF
dark gray cloth, white Ascot tie, patent
leather shoes and white gloves.
The ushers marched up the side aisle
and took their stations IN front of and
at either side of the chancel.
The bridesmaids led the bridal process
sion, walking two and two in the follow
ing order: Miss Catharine Duer and Miss
Elsa Bronson, Miss Laura Jay and Miss
May Goelet, Miss Daisy Post and Miss
Marie Winthrop, Miss Edith Morton and
Miss Evelyn Burden.
Then came Miss Vanderbilt on the arm
of her father, and carrying in her left
hand a bridal bouquet The bridesmaids
took their positions at either side of the
chancel.
The bridegroom then stepped forward
and took the right hand of Miss Wander
bilt and led her to the chancel steps The
marriage rite of the Episcopal church then
followed, Bishop Littletohn officiating.
Immediately after he had given. his
daughter away, Mr. Vanderbilt quietly
left the church. When the marriage cere-
mony was over the duke and his bride
went to the vestry room and signed the
marriage register. At the same time each
of the bridesmaids took a basket of nose
gays and marched back up the aisle, dis
trbuting them among the guests. As
the duke and his bride re-entered the
church an orchestra played the wedding
march from Tannhauser
The bridesmaids returned to the cham
eel and the bridal party marched down
the aisle, the ushers leading. The brides
maids followed them and then came the
duke and his bride. After them came
Mrs. Vanderbilt on the arm Of Mr.. Guest.
and drove to Mrs. Nanderbilts house,
where reception and breakfast fol-
one feature Of the wedding, which has
excited much comment was the fact that
few of w. X. Vanderbilt s family were
invited either to the church or to the
Cornelius vanderbilt's house is closed.
He and his family are in Newport, and
w" Mrs. not E 5fSfn 20 59r rev y qays
bits sister, and her daughter, Miss
Edith Shepard, sailed for Europe to-day.
George Vanderbilt, f. w. Vanderbilt, and
Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt were not
at the church. The reason for this alb
sence of the Vanderbilt family is said
between Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt and the
Vanderbilt family, as the result of her
recent divorce from her husband. The
fact that Mrs. Vanderbilt did not invite
her husbands brothers and sisters to the
marriage of her daughter caused much
talk but little surprise.
The wedding breakfast was served in
the large dining room. Eighteen covers
We're laid at the table of the bridal party.
The service was of gold. Each guest
received the customary wedding cake,
in a small gold box, having on its cover
a coronet and the letters G. and NJ. in
tertwined. one hundred were present a
the breakfast. They included the clergy,
several representatives Of the British le
cation at Washington, the pridal party
and their immediate families, and Miss
Vanderbilt's nearest friends.
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