Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-14
fine WEDDING
VANDERBILT-FREN NUPTIALS
AT NEWPORT A GORGEOUS
DISPLAY OF WEALTH.

Newport, r. J.: lar. A.-Although in
the depth of winter this we'll known wat
ering place today took on a sembance of
it's summer gaiety because of the we'd
ding of Alfred GyAn me Vanderbilt pro.
badly the most wealthy of the third gen.
GRAFTON of the Vanderbilt family, and
Miss Elsie French, charming Newport
girl and former playmate of the bride
groom, the daughter of Mrs. Frederick
Orme French, resident of the city for
many years.
A brighter sun never shone for any
bride, and in spite of the crispness in
the air it did not seem to be a winters
day.
The ceremony took place at noon IN
the Seabrsky Memorial church of st.
John the Evangelist, far up in the old
north part of the city on the very shores
of Narragansett bay, once the center
of Viewpoints fashion, but now far re-
moved from the social whirl of Bellevue
avenue.
Miss French made the choice of her
own place OF worship and her own home
for the scene of the marriage instead
OF selecting the more pretentious but less
familiar, surroundings which would
have been found in New York
Under these conditions the hundred
or more guests We're forced to make a
journey to the city as quiet al this time
of the year as an obscure country VIII
lage.
The festivities, however, did not suffer
from these unusual circumstances. The
church. which was decorated with gor-
Seous lavishness, was only about half
filled with guests, the invitations having
been limited to relatives and close
friends of the couple. The service was
as ornate as the highest forms of the
Episcopal church could make it, the
wedding procession a picture of lowell
ness and fine gowns, and the breakfast,
which closed the formal proceedings OF
the day, was one of the grandest ever
seen in this city.
Although the ceremony was set for
noon, an hour or more before that time
saw the arrival of some of the guests
at the church, and those who came
about II o'clock had the pleasure OF
listening to an organ concert and found
leisure to marvel at the floral decOrl-
lions.
Pink green and white in many charm
ing combinations We're the prevailing
colors the distinctive flowers being the
gloire de la refine begonias, the golden
gate roses with white azeleas, and the
Specimen palm.
The center aisle was lane of begonias
and asparagus standards eight feet high.
being trimmed with the feathery foliage
of the asparagus at regular intervals
from the entrance to the chancel. Bas
kcts of delicate pink flowers depended
from the standards. Specimen palms
thirty feet high lowered high above the
altar. Interspersed among the ferns and
foliage which banked them were great
clusters of white aZeleas and medallions
Of golden gate roses. On the altar was
an immense cross of ascension lilies.
The programme of the organ concert
which occupied the hour preceding the
ceremony was selected by Miss French.
The choir boys of the church marched
in quietly at 1:2O and led in two of the
hymns assigned to them.
Just as the tones of the 'Lohengrin"
march breathed softly forth, the two
cleIgymen, Rev. George r. Beattie, rec
ter of the church. and Rev. q. Brinley
Morgan, rector of Christ church. at New
Haven. entered from the side door, fol-
lowed by the bridegroom and his broth
er, Reginald Vanderbilt. the best man.
AT the same time the bridal procession
started up the aisle, the ushers leading,
followed by the four bridesmaids.
Eight personal friends of the bride
groom acted as ushers. They were
Messrs. Worthington Gerry, Ord Preston
Ernest Iselin. w. p. Borden. Potter
Palmer. Jr. and w. Rayard Cutting. Jr.
no It,iIe ids
French, the brides niece: Miss Elsa
bronson, daughter of the late Freder-
ick Bronson: Miss Isabel G. Stillman
daughter of Mr.. James StiIlman. of
New York. who will soon become the
bride of Percy Avery Rockefeller, and
Miss Edith Gray, daughter of Judge
Gray of Albany.