Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-14
WEDDING N HIGH LIFE.
Vanderbilt and French Nup-
 t1als at Newport.

auU0HONt eaUO EEVuCA N0p
 t1als at Newport. The We'll Known Watering Place
 Alive With People rrom the
 Wealthy Glasses = The Wedding
 Took Place at High Noon in the
 Zabrinskie Memorial Chapel.
 Newport, R. l., Jan 14. - Although in the depth of winter. this well known watering place to-day took on sem- blance of it's summer gaiety because of the wedding of Alfred Gwynne Van derbilt, probably the most wealth of the third generation of the Vandeg- bilt family, to Miss Elsie French, charming Newport girl, former play mate of the groom, and the daughter Of Mrs Frederick Orme French, res ident of the city for many years.
 A brighter sun never danced into 2 bluer morning sky. for any bride, rich or poor, and in spite of crispness in the air, it did not seem to be 3 win ter's day.
 Tho ceremony, which united the heir- ess of millions and still greater wealth, took place at noon, in the Zabrtskte Memorial church of St John the Evan GeliSt, far up in the old north part of the city, on the very shores of Nara gansett bay, once the center of New ports fashion, but now far removed from the social whirl of Bellevue ave hue. Miss French made the choice of her own place of worship and her own home for the scene of her marriage, instead of selecting the more preten- tious, but less familiar surroundings, which would have been found in New York. Under these conditions, the hundred or more guests wer forced to make a Journey to q city as quiet at this time of the year as an obscure country village.
 The festivities, however, did not suffer much from these unusual cir cunEtances. The church was decorat- ed with gorgeous layishness, the as- sembly which only half filled the edi- ice, made up in splendor and com bfned wealth what it lacked in num- bers. the service was as ornate as the highest forms of the Episcopal church could make it, the wedding procession picture of loveliness and fine gowns, and the breakfast, which closed the ASA LA0A P4o(SCu1aSS VI lAC uay, WAS one of the srandest ever served in this city.
 Although the ceremony was set at noon, an hour or more before that time saw the arrival of some of the guests at the church and those who came about Il o'clock had the pleas- ure Of listening to an organ concert and found leisure to marvel at the flor al decorations.
 Pink, green and white in many charming combinations were the pre- va1tng colorS, the distinctive flowers being the Gloire de Ia Reine Bengoras, the Golden Gate roses with white azealeas and the specimen palm. The center aisle was a lane of be- | gonias and asparagus, standards eight feet high being trimmed with the feathery foliage of the asparagus at regular intervals from the entrance of the church to the chancel. Baskets of delicate pink flowers depended from | the standards.
 Specimen palms thirty feet high 1 lowered above the altar. Interspersed among the ferns and foliage which banked them were great clusters of 1 white azaleas and meda1lions of Gold en Gate roses. On the altar was an l l Tn program 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 11:2O and led in 1 two of the hymns assigned to them l The program was as follows: ! Overture-ThnnhauSe Wagner Festival prelude ............ Guirand l SereuaQe ................. Schubert l Aymn-"O Perfect Love-. Jeffrey Sung by the Choir
 Coronation march-'Le Prophete''
 MeyerbeeI Bridal chorus-Lohengrin. =. Wagner
 Sung by the Choir.
 Just as the we'll known and meas ured tones of the Lohengrin march breathed softly forth. the two clergy men, the Rev George F. Beattie, rec tor of the church. and the Rev G Rnnley Morgan. rector of Chris church at New Haven, entered from the side door, followed by the groom and his brother, Reginald Vanderbilt the best man.
 sion started up the main aisle, the ush era leading, followed by the fou
 bridesmaids.
 Eight personal friends of the groom
 acted as ushers. They were Messr
 Worthington Eitzhugh Whitehouse ; Frederick Martin Davies, Robert Liv
 ingstone Gerry, Ord Preston, Ernes
 Iselin, William F. Borden, Potte
 Palmer, Jr, and w. Bayard Cutting, II
 Each wore the conventional frocl
 coat with lavender tie. the latter beinl
 fastened with pearl pins, the gift O the groom. Miss French presented he
 bridesmaid friends with white car,
 cases on each of which was Q razel monogram in gold.
 The bridesmaids were Miss Paulin
 French. the brides niece; Miss Els Bronson. daughter of the late Frede1
 ick Bronson; Miss Isabel c. Stillma1 } daughter of James Stillman of Ney } York, who shortly will become tn
 bride. of Percy Avery Rockefeller; an
 Mias Edith. Gray, daughter Of Judg
 Gray of Albany.
 The bridssmaids' gowns were c . pearl gray, crepe de chine, combine