The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-28
BRILLIANT MARRIAGE
The Beautiful Electrical Dis
play a Novel Feature.
WHITE AND GOLD WEDDING


Largest Crowd that Ever AS
sembled at q Marriage Here
MIR. Wynne to Miss Avera--Mr. Perrin
Busbee, Best Man; Miss Alma Wynne'
Maid of Honor--The Altar Banked
With Ferns and Palms and Carpeted
in Spanish Moss--EIegant Wedding
BANQUET at the Residence of MIR.
fvera.
The chancel of Edenton Street
church was last evening banked with
ferns and palms that rose out of an
intricate groundwork of Spanish moss
that spread from the organ alcove to
the altar rail. Graceful green vines
were enbwined around the posts OF the
railing. Against this rich background
of green and gray was set a large
horseshoe, the emblem of good luck,
studded with brilliant incandescent
electric lights. On the left side the
letter 4 was set, and on the right side
the letter w blazed in brilliance. The
massive electroliers in the centre Of the
ceiling lit up the auditorium:
The occasion was the wedding OF
Mr.. William Wynne and Miss Mary
Avera,
At $50 o'clock the little pages,
Masters James Higgs, John Creech,
Jesse Primrose and Robert Proctor,
moved down the aisles with the golden
ribbons that locked the congregation
in the pews and cleared the aisles for
the bridal party. From the organ,
PLAYED by Prof. T. Vernon Darnall,
came the grand notes of Mendelsohn's
wedding march.
The brides maids moved in two files
at intervals down the central aisles,
and at THE altar the two files crossed
and the party entered the chancel. The
eroomsmen and ushers marched down
the aisles on either side.
The bride entered, leaning on the
arm of her brother, Mr.. William Ayera.
She was gowned in handsome white
silk, trimmed in gold, and carried a
superb boquet
At the altar the groom, with his
best man, Mr.. Perrin Busbee, met the
bride
During the impressive ceremony,
performed by Rev. w. C. Norman in
the beautiful service of the Methodist
church, there came from the organ
very softly and sweetly the notes of
Comm Through the Rye"
As the ceremony ended the light
faded from the letters A and W, and
a large w blazed up in the centre of
the horseshoe and threw its radiance
over the bride and groom.
As the bridal party left the altar, the
Drph mo-
nots," was played.
The maid of honor, Miss Alma
Wynne, carried the Ritual bound III
white satin with gold ornaments, from
which at the altar the minister read
the service, and the bride, on the re-
cessional march, carried the dainty
volume, presenting the maid of honor
with the boquet she had carried to the
altar.
Not only was the church. with all it's
galleries and vestibules crowded with
the congregation, but hundreds could
not get admission. 1t was the largest
crowd ever seen at wedding in
Raleigh.
The ushers were: Messrs Henry w
Miller, Stark Bachelor, Junius Turner,
and DR.. j. r. Rogers.
The pages were: Masters James
Higgs, Robert Proctor, John Creech.
and Jesse Primrose.
The attendants were: Mr.. Charles
Horne with Miss Bessie Belvin.
Mr.. n. K. Edgerton with Miss Flor
ence Tomlinson.
Mr.. Victor Boyden with Miss Lizzie
Carver.
Mr.. John Powell with Miss Lizzie
Wynne.
Mr.. Robert Dunn with Miss Lucy
Brown.
DIR. J. NJ Aver with Miss Emma
McGee.
Mr.. Joe Seawell with Miss Mary
Palmer Mills.
Mr.. Henry Carver with Miss Luna
Wynne.
DR.. Hubert Register with Miss Katie
Fort.
Mr.. John Hardin with Miss Lessie
Leach.
The bridesmaids all wore white
organdies and carried boqliets of car
nations and ferns.
just as the minister pronounced
them man and wife beautiful white
butterfly flew out of the flowers on
the altar, and lowered over the bride
like a benediction.
After the ceremony the bridal party
drove to the residence of the brides
father, Mr.. David Avera, on Newbern
Avenue, where an elegant wedding
supper was served.
Mr. and Mrs. Wynne left on the At
lanta Special this morning for tour
of the northern cities.