The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-22
A WEDDING.


church.
Yesterday evening at $50 o'clock at St.
James church. there occurred one Of the
very prettiest weddings ever celebrated
in Wilmington. 1t was a danodi we'd
ding and the matrimonial bonds were en-
tered into between TWO OF Wilmington's
most prominent young people-Mr. Dom
aid MacRae and Miss Monominia Cary
Davis. daughter Of the hate Hon. George
Davis. The chancel was lavishly and ar
tistically decorated with a very tasteful
arrangement OF royal palms. sword
ferns. holly ferns. and other ported
plants and blooming exotics. The altar
and reTedos were exquisfteiy decorated
with ported plants and banks OF roses.
lilies and cut flowers The characterization
was by Miss Lucy B. Moore, and ii was
greatly admired.
Long before the hour for the marriage
the church was packed with people and
while they were waiting, the organist.
Mr.. E H. Munson. rendered a delightful
programme of classic music. including
Giraud's professional march. Godard's
"Pensee." and Meyer-Helmund's Noe
turn When the bridal party arrived the
procession moved TO the altar while Mr..
Munson inspiringly rendered the bridal
chorus from Lohengrin. Following the
attendants. came the bride leaning on the
arm OF her brother. Junius Davis, ESD.
and at the chancel steps she was joined
by the groom wfho approached from the
vestry room leaning on the arm of his
best man. Mr.. William Mayo Atkinson.
When the couple had presented them
selves at the altar in the midst of their
coterie of bridesmaids and groomsmen.
the Rev. Robert Strange. D. D., united
performing the ceremony according to
the beautiful rite of the Episcopal
church. The bridal party then retired
while the organist rendered Wagner's
march from T~annhauser. Meanwhile
the wedding bells rang out from the
tower and the happy cadences died away
as the great throng inside took their de-
parture.
The bride was attired in a lovely gown
of ivory satin, trimmed with white chif-
fon, duchesSe lace and heather. She wore
a bewitching tulle veil, and carried a
shower bouquet of lilies of the valley.
Her maid of honor was Miss Mary Cal
der, who wore a toilette of yellow organ
dy over green silk. She wore "a pretty
white leghorn hat trimmed with yellow
and White chiffon and yellow doffodils.
She carried a large bunch of doffodils.
The bridesmaids were Miss Isabel
Rountree, Miss Julia Parsley, Miss Fair
Payne, Miss Sarah Kenan, of Whining
ton; Miss Bessie Henderson, Of Sails
bury, N. c., and Miss Nell Hardin. of
Cheraw, s. c.. They were charmingly
dressed in white organdy, with daffodil
trimmings, and carried bouquets of daffo-
dis.
The ribbon holders were little Miss
| Meta Rountree and Master Hugh Court
nay Calder, the manly little son of Mr..
William Calder. Miss Meta is the lovely
little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Rountree, and is a niece Of the bride. She
looked awfully cute in a dress of yellow
| and white.
The groomsmen were Messrs. Fairfax
Crow, George Crow, Thos. w. Davis, r
! B. Mason, Hugh MacRae, and H. NJ.
| Chase. Three wore boutonnieres of white
carnations and daffodils and the other
three pink carnations and daffodils.
From the church the brida party was
driven to the brides home where a re-
ception was held. There was a magniti-
cent array of costly presents.
The bride presented her maids with pir
souvenirs of frosted gold thistles set witt
small diamonds.
Mr.. and Mrs. MacRae took the 7:15 p
m. train on the Atlantic Coast Lin ano
left for New York. They were accompa
MED to the train by Il large number o.
friends and were sent on their tour witt
a shower of rice. 1t had been their in
tention to go on a our to Europe, bu
he is captain of the Wilmington Light
Infantry and had to forego that pleas
ure in view of the imminence of wal
with Spain.