The age-herald., 1898-10-13
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The Wedding of Mss Redd
And Mr. Carper


 The wedding ceremony of Miss Annie Redd and MT. Charles Elliott Carper was solemnized yesterday at Il o'clock by pr. A. M. Currie at the home of the brides pa- rents, Mr. and Mrs. William Redd.
 The wedding was a quiet one, the guests being the immediate relatives and near friends of the two families.
 The house was brilliantly illuminated and. decorated with a profuslon of roses and smilax. The entrance hall and stairway were effectively adorned with bamboo, with an elaborate arrangement of masturtiums. The drawing-room, in which the ceremony was performed, had a fringe of bamboo and smlax, with the mantel banked in roses.
 The bridal couple stood beneath a canopy of smilax.
 The bride entered with the groom, and was preceded by her sister, Miss Nina Redd, and her brother, Lieutenant Ernest Redd, of the Third Alabama regiment. The ceremony was impressive and beautiful. breakfast followed the ceremony, after which the wedding party drove to the rail- way station, where they left on the north- bound train for an extensive wedding journey.
 The bride was unusually handsome in an elegant imported tailor gown of black and red cloth, the Paquin skirt trimmed in black bands and braid. The yoke and the corsage were handsomely braided and trim med effectively with velvet. The hat was of black velvet trimmed with black and white wings red and black poppies, with touch of dotted velvet
 Her flowers were white carnations.
 The groom was attired in the conventional morning dress with white buttoniere Miss Nina Redd, the lovely young sister of the bride, wore a beautiful toilette of grey cloth, the flaring skirt trimmed with white bands edged with black velvet. The corsage opened over vest of white lace over satin, and was trimmed with dark blue velvet. The hat was of black velvet tTTippmed with wings and breasts She car ried bouquet of pink roses.
 Lieutenant Redd in full dress uniform lent a touch of regimental smartness to the occasion.
 Mrs. Redd, the mother of the bride, was gowned in a becoming toilette of black with lace applique.
 Mrs. c. P Carper, of St. Louis, the grooms mother, wore a gown of brown and white silk with effective touches of black and white.
 Mrs. Carey Carper, of St. Louis, was at- tired in dark red Venetian cloth trimmed with blue and black.
 
 and beautiful.
 Among the most charming features of the wedding was the cutting of the bridal cake. The thimbe fell to Miss Amy Jor dan while the dime was carried off by Miss Hattie Webb and the ring by MT. Robert Baugh.
 The bridal book, bound in white and gold, a gift from Mrs. James Johnston, was the occasion of the pretty old custom of the wedding guests inscribing their names. MT and Mrs. Carper on their return from their wedding tour, will be at home at the residence of MT. and Mrs. Redd.
 Mrs Carper will be among the most popu- lar young matrons in Birmingham society, as she has been before her marriage, one of the most admired belles MT, Carper's former home was in St. Louis. He was educated abroad but of re- cent years has mae Birmingham his home, being connected with the Southern railroad. He is well known, and he. with his charm ing young bride, will be among the most popular of the young married set.