The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-06

The season for weddings is upon
US and society is given up to talk of
trousseaus, bridesmaids gowns and
wedding cake. There are many ways
of being married; either quietly at
home, a small church wedding, or a
big splurgy affair with lots of brides
maids and all the form and ceremony
that many girls like. 1t has often
been said that q wedding was one af-
fair that the bride should have ex-
actly as best suits her and the groom
has not word to say about it in any
way. All that is expected of him is
to choose his best man and ushers,
give the bride a gift, and gifts, too, to
his ushers if he can. He also pro-
vides the brides bouquet, the brides
maids flowers and the carriages which
take them to the church. The brides
father pays for everything else. A
fashionable wedding costs tremendous
~. that is it can be made to cost a
great deal if the bride does many
things that wealthy brides often in
SfSt upon doing. Some rich New York
brides have ordered and paid for the
maids gowns and presented them.
Beside this they often give very beau
tfful souvenirs in the shape, some
times, of diamond ornaments. Con-
Quoted in this way, and the church and
house put into the hands of a first
class florist, and a fashionable we'd
ding can cost a great many thousand
dollars. The plainest sort of a church
wedding costs something but it is GER
tainly the proper place to be married
if it is possible. A very simple home
wedding where only the intimate
friends, or perhaps merely the two
families are present, will be ineXpen-
Sive, and in the minds of many girls
who care nothing for show, is infinite
ly preferable to the splurgy church
ceremony. Every girl who has large
wedding and all her friends as maids,
racks her brain to think of some inno-
Walton in dress Or in the way of enter
ing the church to make her wedding
entirely different from those that have
preceded it. But in these days of
nothing new under the sun it is diff
cult to be different. The weddings of
the past autumn in st. Paul were
very pretty, and the fact that the
maids wore wells on their heads, made
slight difference in their usual at
tire. At one or two weddings in New
York the maids wore heavy white cloth
dresses and big hats and carried
muffs. This does very we'll for a win
ter wedding. White is always the
prettiest, although there have been
one or. two weddings when all. the
maids were dressed in pale colors and
looked we'll A white costume with
big black Gainsbofeugh hat would be
something new and very stunning.
If there is time when a girl wishes
to look her very best it is when she
acts as bridesmaid for a friend, and
yet by some strange freak of fate,
very few girls do look their best in
that capacity. The bride, too, suffers
in the same way. A girl who is really
beautiful has been known to seem al
most plain when she gets on her we'd
ding f1nery, and on the contrary the
plain girl often appears really beauti-
full in. her wedding gown. Brides usu-
ally look, too, absolutely worn out, and
this especially at a very elaborate we'd
ding, But when one takes into con-
sideration the amount of trouble and
worry the getting ready for the fash
ionabIe wedding makes, not to men
ton the late hours required for the
gayeties that usually occur before
when all her dearest friends want to
entertain for her, 1T is not to be Won
dered at that she loses some flesh and
is tired out.
The girl who has acted as brides
maid many times and knows what it
means usually wants, when her time
comes, a simple and quiet wedding.
AS for the man in question, he usu-
ally feels silly indeed when he marches
down the aisle between two white
satin ribbons which separate him from
the brides dear 500 friends whom he
is perfectly certain are saying: What
in the world did she see in him."
Nothing is required of him but to be
on time. Really, the groom counts but
little at a fashionable wedding