The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25
THE UP-TO-DATE
BRIDAL BOUQUET
A COSTLY AFFAIR

However needless of fashions a maid
may have been in her callow days, she
is always seized with a desire to be
fashionable at her wedding, and it is
the despair of the girl about to marry
a $50-a-week man that he cannot pro-
vide her with the only bouquet that
smart people approve as entirely fash
ionable-white orchids and liles-of-
the-Valley. While a wealthy bride
groom pays as high as $3.50 to $500 for
such a bouquet, the average well-to-do
man contents himself with paying $3.50,
the general price of the brides bouquet
of to-day. OF course lilies of-the-val-
ley and bride roses and white chrysan-
themums may all be carried with good
taste, but they are no longer fashion
able. They are simply sanctioned by
society.
The bridegroom himself, if he wants
to be in style, wears a large gardenia
in his buttonhole. and presents the
bridesmaids with flowers suited to
their frocks. Bridesmaids bouquets
are now chosen entirely with regard to
the material of the frock to be worn
and it's coloring, but favorite flowers
for autumn bridesmaids are white
roses, pink roses, American beauties
and violets. OF course. shower bou-
quets are the rage and add effectively
to the appearance of a frock.
Orange blossoms crown the head of
the autumn bride. the mists of dotted
Duchesse net, with wide borders OF
fine Duchesse lace, fall in filmy folds
from the white blossoms in her hair.
So important a part does fashion
play in all the events of modern life
that even the decoration for a dinner
to be given to a bride is set forth IN
unwritten laws that are as rigidly
obeyed as any set forth in statute
books. The table for a brides lunch
con or dinner is spread with cloth
of fashionable linen or lace or both,
and lighted by electroliers in graceful
candelabra, a five-branched silver can
delabra, in Empire style, standing IN
the center of the table. with dainty
white silk floral shades, fringed with
clear beads, above the imitation white
wax candles. Pale green-or the very
palest of pink shades may be used with
a sprig of orange blossoms. At each
corner of the table a single candlestlck
electrolier, similarly shaded, stands
and matches the center one in design
and height, although it would be much
prettier to have corner candelapra
smaller, as to height, and few peo-
pie have them so.
The flowers are arranged in fat et-
fects, with loose blossoms strewn over
the table, and some times the corsage
bouquets of the women are banked
against a low platter as table decor
alton, and distributed after the meal.
Fashionable table adornments that are
dreams of floral beauty consist OF
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asparagus and trifoliata ferns, by way
of foliage; or cattelaye orchids are
mingled with the same delicate ferns
and look like flights of white butter
flies floating among the lace and silver
and crystal Of the table service.
Another modish way Of decorating
a brides table is with lilies-of-tne-Val-
ley and violets, with fairy-like fronds
of asparagus fern and the trifollata
maidenhair. Glimmering silver taVorS
for the guests often add attractiveness
to the decorations, and as Frequently
the favorS consist of white lace anu
pearl fans, or white gauze and lace az
fairs, dainty enough for Titania to use.
Popular dinner and lunch cards Iot
bridal dinners and luncheons CONSIST
of white bells, wreathed in pink roses roses
or orange blossoms, and tied Watn
bows of white satin baby ribbon, ios
the women, and white slippers ueu
with a bow of white ribbon, and nav
ing a sprig of orange blossoms over
the instep, for the men. a..
Canopies are going out of style TOT
wedding decorations. III their steao
curtains of smilax sway like the doofs
to sempiternal spring and banks anu
groups of decorative plants are ar
ranged with a view 30 artistic euects,
while sometimes a bridal flower
scattered through the scheme OF oee
orations. such as white roses, Jas
mine and-for a late autumn weddlnS
white chrysanthemums.