Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-01-07
DOUBLY WfDDfD AT
A DOUBLE WEDDING
Marriage of Two Brothers and Two
Sisters BY Dual Ceremony at the
Home of Their Mutual Brother and
Sister-In-Law.

One of the happiest and at the same
time most novel wedding incidents that
ever occurred in this city took place
last evening at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Adolph Herzberg, No. 52S East
Van Buren, street. 1t was a double we'd
ding, the principals being Mr.. Abe Lu-
kin, aged q, and Miss Luceile Herr
berg, aged 1s. and Mr.. Harry Lukin,
aged %, and Miss Eta Herzberg, aged
l.. The two grooms are brothers and
the brides are sisters and the wedding
was celebrated in the home of the
brother of the brides and the sister
of the grooms, which happy couple was
married some years ago. A sister of
the brides, Miss Ruby Lukin. attend
ed as maid for Miss Eta and Miss
Laura Kalsmau attended as maid for
Miss Lucile. X. Splitter served as best
man fer the younger groom and TObe
Lichtenstein performed like office for
his brother.
Not only was it a double wedding,
made the more interesting by the inter-
lacing Of the ties of consanguinity be-
tween two families that are now about
as closely united as could we'll be i'm
agined, but each Of the couples was
dOubly married. The principals are all
orthodox Jews and with them the re-
ligiOus ceremony is equally as binding
and equally as important as the pure
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by the statutes. That there might be
nothing left undone in the sanctioning
Of the holy alliance. both the religious
and the statutory fOrmalities were
complied with. In the early evening
there assembled some sixty or seventy
guests, relatives and intimates of the
contracting parties, a part of the merry
company being of Hebrew faith and Il
'part of Gentle prediction.
The Besse orchestra was present and
as the strains of Lohengrin echoed
throughout the handsomely decorated
room, the candidates FOR matrimony
and their attendants were ushered be-
fore Rabbi Harry Friedman. who at
tired in the flowing rODes or office per-
formed the Hebrew ceremony in ac-
couples standing under a canopy
adorned with ferns, lilacs and roses.
Flowers of these varieties were also
used in tastefully decorating the par
lOrs after the manner of a vernal bow
er. The ring ceremony was employed.
Subsequently Judge Andrew Nielsen
of Tempe relieved Rabbi Friedman OF
his officiating function and with all
the dignity and grace OF a supreme
court justice. pronounced the benedic-
tion of the state and declared the happy
couples, respectively, man and wife.
After the ceremony the guests were
seated around three monster tables,
superbly arrayed for the occasion and
weighted with a burden of those lux
uries that go to make up the ideal we'd
ding feast. The tables were neatly dec
GRATED and two brides cakes adorned
them as centers Of attraction, each be
ing embellished with a fringe OF we'd
ding bells, a delicate touch of the
pastryman's ingenuity. Following the
most sumptuOus banquet a room was
cleared and the orchestra which had
added much to the earlier gayety of
the evening, provided the music for
those who wished to dance.
At rather a late hour the newly mar
ried couples were driven to Tempe
which will be their home and where
the father of the grooms has provided
a newly built and furnished home for
them.
The groOms are engaged in business
with their father. William Lukin of
Tempe, where IL prosperous general
store has been conducted by them for
long time. One OF the brides is well
known in Phoenix, having lived here
two or three years previous to going
to Los Angeles few months ago with
her sister and mother and other re-
latives who came here from the old
country less than a year ago. The
brides and their mother returned from
Los Angeles a few weeks ago to pre-
pare Tor the nuptials of the young wo-
men their father coming later and all
have in the interim been the guests of
their son and brother. Adolph Herr
berg.