The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-13
BEAUTIFUL CEREMONY
AT evening UPTlALS
.miss May Fitzpatrick and Herbert F.
Clark, the Bride and Groom at the
Fitzpatrick Home, on Darte Avenue.

The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank f..
Fitzpatrick, on Darte avenue, was the
scene of beautiful nuptial splendor last
evening, when their daughter, Miss
May. was married to Herbert f.
Clark.
The ceremony was solemniZed at I.3O
in the second parlor of the home, which
was a beautiful picture of light and
color with the generous illuminations
and its decorations of evergreen,
frightened here and there with IL
sprinklng of cut flowers and bloom
ing plants. There was Il big assem-
blage of guests to witness the tableau
formed by the bridal party before the
green festooned altar, and the we'll
wishing hearts present Were swelled
TO hundreds throughout the city, for
the couple We're highly conspicuous in
the social life of the town and We're
warmly esteemed by those who knew
their friendship. In fact, the mar
riage was quite a society event, which
had been eagerly anticipated since the
announcement of the wedding night.
The strains of the march from "Lo-
hengrin," played by Miss Alice Brid-
gett, announced the bridal procession,
which led down the stairs and through
the first parlor to the altar, over which
streamers of evergreen We're so ar
ranged as to form a canopy. y huge
bouquet of bright flowers burst from
the central point, where the streamers
of green met. spreading here and there
until the bay window was a back
ground of green.
The ribbon girls, twelve in number,
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sion. They We're the Misses Lillian
Patten, Marian Mills. Grace Powell,
Laura Dix, Hazel Wheeler, Gertrude
Dennis, Ruth Bailey Margaret Frieder,
Ethel Morgan, May Meyers, Maud
Stephens, May Williams and Flora
Thurman, Uniondale.
The ushers. Frank and June Kill
patrick, brothers of the bride, led the
procession; the groom and his best
man, his brother Frederick Clark, of
Jersey City, followed then the maid
of honor, Miss Elizabeth Hovey, of
I3ainbrdse, n. Y; the page, little Ell
mer Fitzpatrick, son of the officiating
clergyman, who bore the ring on a
silver plate; the flower girl, Genevieve
Clark, daughter of w. II. Clark, and
lastly, the bride, with her father.
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daughter to the groom as his bride,
and then Rev. Egbert Fitzpatrick, of
Oxford n. Y, uncle of the bride, be-
gan the marriage service of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church. Rev. A. +.
Chaffee pastor of the First Methodist
church, assisted in the service. While
the VOWS We're being plghted "The
Flower Song" was played and during
the season of congratulations and we'll
wishes, immediately after the cere-
mony, music from selections from
"Tanhauser" and Mendelssohn filled
the rooms.
The bride was enhanced in her ap-
pearance by Il gown of white taffeta
silk, covered with white silk null she
carried a white Bible.
Miss tloVey Wore green taffeta silk,
with green silk null and she carried
pink roses. The flower girl and page
We're robed in white.
A wedding repast followed in the
dining room, which was decorated in
green, as We're all the rooms. This
was the scheme of decoration. being
particularly effective in transforming
the room of the nuptials and the STAIR