The Republican journal., 1897-10-07
The HiIton=Sibley Wedding.

Congregational Church yesterday, Oct. 9th,
at high noon, when Miss Charlotte Thorn
dixie Sibiey, only daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Sibley of this city, was welded to
Mr.. Henry Hoyt Hilton of Chicago. Miss
talented and charming young ladies, but the
State of Maine is proud to acknowledge her
as a daughter. Mr.. Hilton is business man
of Chicago and a member of the firm of
CHM & Co, publishers of schools and col
lege text books Mrs. j. W. Jones, as Or
ganist, played for twenty minutes while the
guests We're assembling, and the bridal party
entered during the playing of Lohengrn's
march. The six ushers Mr.. James Barnes
Hilton of Cambridge, Mass, brother of the
groom, MIR. Harold L. Sibley, a brother of
the BRIDE Mr.. Fred I. Chase of this city,
Mr.. Chas. A. Hardy of Boston, Mr.. Frederic
o. Grover of Cambridge, and Mr.. Dana
w Hall of Chicago; the bridesmaids, Miss
Alice Field Pearl of Bangor and Miss Caro-
line W Field of this city the maid of honor,
Miss Janet E. Davidson of Albany, n. Y, a
very close Wellesley friend of the bride but
a member of the class of 80, and the bride
with her father, entered by the left isle. They
were met at the altar by the two clergymen,
Rev. A. E. Dunning, d. D.. of Boston, editor
of The Congregationalist, and Rev. George
Sherman Mills of this city, and by the
groom with his best man, Mr. o. P. Conant
of New York, partner and college friend,
who had entered by the right isle.
The bride was given away by her father.
The Episcopal form of ceremony was used
with one ring. Rev. Geo. S. Mills, the pastor
of the church of which the bride is a men,
Der, and Dartmouth classmate and a very
close and dear friend of the groom, made
the two happy hearts one, while DR.. Dun
ming, deeply interested friend, offered an
earnest prayer. Miss Sibley, as every one
expected who knows what her rare personal
charms are looked the picture of happy
and beautiful bride in an elegant white satin
gown with court train and very high cor
sage, elaborately trimmed with Duchesse
lace, a design of the latest Partisan style,
and a most magnificent veil of tule. She
carried bouquet of very beautiful brides
roses. She wore the gift of the groom, a
most exquisite diamond and pearl pin The
veil was caught on the left side by beauti-
full pearl pin, the gift of her bridesmaids,
who requested that she wear it. Miss
Davldson's bright brunette beauty was ac-
cented by e wn of pale yellow Liberty
silk with chiffon and ribbon trimmings.
She carried bouquet of golden roses and
made a most charming maid of honor. The
brides maids We're very attractively attired
in rich corded pale pink silks with chiffon
trimmings and they carried beautiful
lunches of La France roses. The bridal
party We're without hats and Wore patent
leather shoes. with the exception of the
bride, who had on a pair of white satin. The
gentlemen We're in the conventional black
of the latest style, all wearing cutaway coats,
black trousers white vests and patent
leather shoes and boutonnieres of white
plnks,
MIR. and Mrs, Hilton and party left the
altar by the right isle while Miss Sarah c..
Jones of this city, as organst, played Men
delsshon's wedding march. Mrs. Edward
Sibley, the brides mother, was gowned in
silver-colored silk with green trimmings
and pale green and pink chiffon and was
without a bonnet, while Mrs. LuCius w.
Hilton, the grooms mother, wore black silk
relieved 10y green trimmings.
A canopy of white festooned with green
extended from the church door to the street
| The church vestibule was converted into
an immense arbor by quantities of small
evergreen trees Every seat in the audience
room was partitioned off with white satin
ribbons and those occupied by the families
| and relatives We're designated by the addi-
tion of bouquets tied with white ribbons.
| The effect was decidedly pleasing.
| The church was beautifully decorated
Autumn leaves were placed about the organ
and rear of the church. Over either isle
| near the front were arches of laurel and
white flowers, while the bridal party stood
| beneath an arch of the hop vine and white
roses and lilies, and on either side of the
arch We're floral pillars surmounted with
bouquets of flowers. Broad white satin
ribbons depended from the arches to the
chandeliers, where they were tied in lovers
knots. Immense banks of palms and pot
| ted plants in the rear of the altar heighten
ed the effect of the special decorations
| About $50 invitations were issued and the
| church was filled to its utmost capacity. II
was wedding perfect in its appointments
and of surprising loveliness, The morning
| dawned clear and beautiful and the day
| proved an ideal one for an autumn wedding
"a clear sky, bright sun, and beautiful
tiy,to i,,tI uboI h ial,
| city is famed.
| Immediately after the ceremony a recep
tion. was given at the brides beautiful home
| No Is High street; the bride and groom
| Misses Davidson and Field and Mr.. Conant
the best man, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Sibley
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius W. Hilton, the groom
parents, receiving. The house was mos
| artstically decorated and much admired by
the two hundred guests present. The parlo
| IN which the friends were formally received
| was decorated in green and white, the brid,
and groom standing in front of beautiful
| floral screen. An abundance of rare ant
| beautiful flowers banked the fireplace, man
tel and capped the doors and windows. TIL,
| hydarangea predominated in the hall decora
| tlons and the music room was beautitiet
| with potted plants and cut flowers. Th
library was also frightened with an abund
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