Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-11
FOR JUNE WEDDINGS
FADs AND FANCIES THAT MAY BE
CARRIED OUT.
More Decoration Needed Than at a
Winter Ceremony
Novelties.

Written for The Evening Star.
Good old Dame Nature does much to aid
the summer bride in providing settings and
decorations that are at once exquisite and
inexpensive. In winter the bridal decora-
tons suggest luxury and lighthouses. In
summer they should breathe simplicity,
fields and daies. Hothouse plants are dis
tinctly out of place. artificial lights abso-
luteIy obnoxious and heavy food an abomi-
nation.
A bride who carried dowry of many
thousands of dollars selected June as her
wedding month. calmly informing her fam
lily that she intended to depart as far as
possible from the conventional city and
church wedding. The invitations were sent
out from the country home. and when the
guests arrived at the village depot, instead
| of conventional omnibuSeS and dragS they
found awaiting them number of hayrfcks,
gay with green and white streamers. No
gay canopy led to the house from the en-
trance, but bower of greenery, and in
stead of bamboo or mating screens on the
porch, there were SWaYing- curtains of
woodland vines.
No palms or dollhouse flowers were in
sight. but in the drawing room an altar had
been improvised and covered with white
cloth. AT the back were massed ferns.
transplanted from woodland dels not q
mile from the house, and the carpet of the
altar was wrought from field daisies sewed
| on coarse netting. This virginia. altar on
the cool white and green mating was an
exquisite study In simplicity.
The bride wore the finest of French ba-
tiste, trimmed in real valencennes and car
ried a shower bouquet of pure white ram
bier roses. gathered that morning from her
grandmother's porch. Her bridesmaids were
gowned in palest green organdy, and car
ried field daisies.
Another city girl, whose wedding occur
red at her fathers country place. could not
yield much to the law of SIMPLICITY hut
she, too, adopted novelty for carrying her
guests from the depot to the house Her
father Possesses a fine stable and string of
horses. and the village livery could have
complerlented their private eauipment but
as trolley line ran directly past the lodge
entrance of their home, the bride hired a
special trolley car. and had it decorated in
green and white.
A White Car.
When the city guests arrived they found
car draped without III streamers of white
ribbon ard great punches of ferns, and pre-
sided over by a motorman and conductor
clad in white duck. Within the ceiling OF
the car was studded with white roses set in
smiiax. the window curtains had been re-
moved and swaying smilax substituted
great bows of white ribbon were tied on the
arms, and small pillow or cushion of white
roses and ferns was hung on the back of
each seat.
Where the grounds ere absolutely pri-
vate. an al fresco wedding can be easily
managed always providing for a sudden
adjournment indoors should the weather
prove unpleasant. A wide-spreading tree
forms the background for the wedding
party, and chairs should be provided for
the guests The musicians should be sta
toned III a secluded corner or summer
house and the bridal party should be sim
ply dressed.
Wedding refreshments for these semi
outdoor weddings should be simple. Heavy
made dishes should be avoided. AS the
guests may have come some distance one
warm dish may be provided, but 1t should
be delicate. on the lines of creamed sweet
breads CT chicken in paper cases to match
the decoration scheme. This with coffee a
variety of dainty sandwiches and cakes,
ices AM punch. is ample for the summer
wedding feast