The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
OPEN-AlR WEDDINGS.
It Is Quite the Thing to Be Married
 in the Garden.

From the New York Evening Sun
 The note for the summer weddings has just been struck by the picturesque nup- tials of popular girl at her parents Long Island country place. She had or ignally planned for a church wedding in the city, and when postponement was necessary she chose the Gothic chapel at the seashore village. But as spring brought warmer days she formed the reso- lution to be married out of doors on her fathers estate. The invitations merely asked the guests to Windom Hill and in closed the regulation engraved time table. with no suggestion that the event would have any unusual features. On a hill back of the big country house was q pine wood which overlooked the sea. Here an open grove furnished the de- sired spot. A city florist and decorator were called out, not to turn a church or a drawing room into a bower, but to transform a wood into cathedral. A fairly symmetrical space in the grove was al the disposal of the wedding makers. This was screened off with d wire netting, which, just before the cere- mony, was filled in with greens. Rustic benches took the place of the convention al camp chairs. A small rustic altar mark ed the place for the clergyman, while cushions well strewn with pine needles rendered easy the devout posture of the bride and bridegroom. Broad white rib bons separated the seats into aisles and gave the spot a churchly air When the guests arrived at Windom Hill the ushers who, by the way, fulfilled their function well-conducted them up the carefully cleared path. When at the stroke of , the orchestra. concealed behind the net ting. commenced the march from "Lohen- grim the wedding party started from the veranda and wound it's way up through the woods. Tn the meantime the clergyman had made his entrance from the rear, and the bridegroom and best man followed in time to meet the bride at the altar.
 The supper and the reception which fol- lowed were held on the veranda and the lawn, so that. except for the display of presents, the house itself played very lit tie part in the affair. The dance, to which all the young guests remained, was held in the billiard room. The lawn was strung with many colored electric lights and served as a promenade.
 The brides mother, who has married off three other daughters, says that she has never found a wedding party so easy to opera season, with fancy dress balls. smart luncheons and elaborate dinner parties at her disposal. Everything went off with flourish. and guests who were jaded In the winter with city gayetles were now pleased with simple dance at the Country club. The bridegroom gave his stag dinner at his club in town. but the other functions took place at Win dom Hill. Automobile runs. sailing par ties, an evening of amateur theatricals a seance with fortune-teler, served to keep the guests amused.
 An outdoor wedding in the Adirondacks last summer was on less conventional lines. and might have been a bit from a Greek drama rather than a twentieth century ceremony. The wedding took place at the foot of a cliff on the shore of a mountain lake The men and the women in the bridal procession were clad in white Grecian robes. As they descended the bowlder they played on stringed instru- ments and chanted a hymn to Hymen. At the close of the wedding the bride and hridegroom entered a white canoe waiting for them and disappeared down the mar row lake. In spite of this unusual form the guests said that the poetry of the ceremony prevented any suggestion of the 1udicrous, and that a sacrament in a Eu- ropean cathedral could not have been at- tended with greater solemnity