The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-19
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WEDDING
Lady 6rtvl|e Bride ! of
Vbcount HeImsley.
SWELL FUNCTION OF NOBILITY
Some Pointers on How ii Is Done for
Anqlomaniacs-The Costumes
and Breakfast.
SWELL FUNCTION OF NOBILITY

LONDON, Jan. 19--In st. Mary's
Collegiate church, Warwick, Lady Mar
jorie Grevile, daughter of the Earl
and Countess of Warwick, became the
bride today of Viscount Helmsley.
grandson and heir of Earl Faversham.
The beauty of the bride, the social po-
sition of her mother. the Countess of
Warwick, and the popularity of the
bridegroom combined to make the we'd
ding one of the great social events of
the year.
For the accommodation of the London
guests a special train was run, reaching
Warwick at noon, a half-hOur before
the beginning of the ceremony. The
marriage was conducted by the Bishop
of Oxford assisted by the Rev. Canon
Rvington, vicar of ST Mary's Cole
giate church. and the Rev. H. SymOnds,
rector of Little Easton, Essex. The
company assembled in the church was
a most distinguished one. In the peWS
reserved for the relatives of the con-
F'eversham, the Earl of Shrewsbury,
the Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury.
the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland,
Lady Algeron- Gordon Lennox, the
Duke of Leinster, the MarchiOnesS of
Londonderry, Lord and Lady Castle
reagh, Lord Ingestre. Sir Edgar and
Lady Helen Vincent the Countess of
Wilton and Lady Alexandra Paget.
The bridesmaids were fourteen in
number namely. Lady Marjorie Man
ners. Lady Marjorie Erskino. Miss
Brenda Woodhouse, Lady Rosemary
Leverson Cover, Miss Molly Beckett
Miss Little, Miss Cicely Horner, Lady
Violet Finch, Miss Vera Dugdale and
Miss Felce Greville. The children
among the brides attendants wore
beautiful dresses of soft white satin,
with full skirts, wide bands, bodice of
white chiffon, with capeS of red velvet
tucked into the waStband. The older
young ladies wore similar costumes, ex
cept that the red velvet formed kind of
a stole instead of being tucked into the
Waistband. They wore Romney picture
hats trimmed with feathers, and car
ried big white marabout muffs. the gift
of the bridegroom. The two little
pages. the Hon. Maynard Greville and
Niscount Grey de Wilton. wore cas-
tunes of White satin. red silk sashes. ,
white stockings and white shoes, with
red heels.
The brides dress was a wonderful
Partisan creation of soft white chiffon. |
trimmed with Mechlin lace, the gift of
the Countess of Warkick.
The bride was escorted to the church |
by mounted troop of the Warwick |
shire imperial yeOmanry, and on its |
way to the altar the bridal procession |
passed between two rows of Lord |
Helmsey's troop of Yorkshire yeO-
and troop of Essex yeomanry, |
of which Lord Warwick is the honor
airy colonel.
The wedding breakfast, following the
ceremony at the church, took place in |
the great hall of Warwick Castle, which |
was cleared for the purpose, as it was
the only room large enough to accom- /
adate the two hundred ana fifty |
guests.
At four o'clock the bridal couple |
left the castle for MilvertOn, en- route |
for Ingestre, the Eary of Shrewsbury's |
beautiful seat, near Stafford, where /
the honeymoon will be passed.
today, has been brought up entirely |
under her mothers care. In accord |
ance with Lady Warwick's views. her
daughter has lived life Of quite pas