The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-25
-. s.tere.t,nw weadings.

Mobile. Dec. 24.-(special.)- )-Christ- mas Eve Is distinctly time Of last minute shopping, tieing up packages and hanging stockings that 1t Is sell dom that anything except Christmas trees and egg nogs fill the social col usnn. Today was an exception. now ever, for two weddings, that of Miss Ida Lawler Richardson to Mir. Joel H. Thornton and Miss Annie Marshall Wil- son to Mir. Quincy w. Tucker, were noon day affairs of moment.
 4 long line of distinguished ances- try coupled with the sweet attrac- tiveness of the young bride who was Miss Richardson made Mobilians much interested in her wedding today. A xrand-daughter of Mrs. Lawler and the late General Lawler, one of the oldest and best families in this sec- ton of the South, a neice of Mrs. Julian Whiting and a cousin of Mrs. george Robison and Mrs. Walter Heron. It IS easy to see that much that is attrac- tive in woman was her first dover
 In her imported wedding gown which was also her going away gown --of a dark plaid with strapping or leather colored cloth and picture hat of those shades mingled with brown so becoming to the blonde type or which the bride is & fair one and With hor patrician features she was the In . carnation of lovely young womanhooo'
 The wedding was as simple as 1t was pretty. There were no attendants anu only few friends of the family were present at the Whiting residence at Y o'clock where the knot was tied. Tne house was filled with presents and paims, bamboo and ferns were used in decorating and the bride carried bouauet of lilies of the valley.
 The health of the young coupie~was drunk after the ceremony and just prior to their leaving for New Orleans on a short bridal tour.
 Mrs. Whiting for whom the bride was named, wore a rose color gown most becomingly. Mrs. George Robin son fn a chic Copenhagen blue lace confection and Mrs. W. w. Heron in a gray crepe de chine were among those present at the ceremony.
 The bridegroom. MT. Joel H. Thorn ton is an ex-resident of Greenvflle, Miss. who has only made his nome in MobiieSf Sfduring the past rew years hut in that time has made an extreme lv favorable impression in a business way and is worthy young fellow judging by his number and loyalty or his friends.
 On the return of MT. and Mrs. Joel H. Thornton to Mobile they will max their home with General and Mrs. J. W. whiting on Government street.
 A larger and more Christmassy we'd ding was that of Miss Annie Marshall wilson to Mir. Quincy W. Tucker. sofs eunized at the large palatial new Co., Iorsial home of Judge J. M. Wilson on Georgia avenue.
 Christmas bells in red for the large hall and other rooms with the except ion of the drawing room, where the wedding took place, and which had white instead of red. was the key note of the decorations--hol1y and mistletoe, palms, ferns and bamboo In profuslon' blended very prettily with these bells and in the drawing room the white lace draped altar was directly under the large white wedding one.
 The bride. in a white messaiine SIX en train, with entre deux of real lace and a half wreath of rose buds and tu1le in her hair, was very fair to look upon, as she came in on the arm of her father. There were no attendants. with the exception of MT. Mormon Gum. of Jasper, who is one of the states distinguished senators. After the