The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

BIER F, 1908
 church, which was elaborately decorated for the occasion in ivy and southern smi- lax.
 The bride was given away by her maid of honor. Miss Mary Escambia Cooper of this city, whose wedding to MT. John W. Wood took place yesterday afternoon at Norwood Place. The two young wom- en were room-mates at the Judson, and each happily found it possible to be present at the others marriage on the same day
 The maid of honor was gowned in a becoming travelling costume in the brown tints with a hat to match. She carried pink roses. Miss Burk was most at tractive in her travelling gown fashiened of brown cloth, with gloves, shoes and hat en suite. She carried a shower bou- quet of brides roses and lilies of the valley
 There were four bridesmaids Miss Co., rinne Fulmer, Miss Wynnette Matthews and Miss Jessie Berry of Sylacauga and MISS ffulH IiODSOll Ol IDii Aiilll6 ieiiils AhC5 wore charming Dolly Warden froeks of pink and green, with ribbon bands of pink and green twined in their hair Two of the young women carried pink carnations, the others white.
 The ceremony was performed by Dr. Bentley, pastor of the First Baptist church.
 ATp 1paF van Keuren of Birmingham. The grooms- men were MT. s. K Marlborough and MT. Edward Hawkins of this city, and MT. Henry Clayton, MT. John Wood and MT. Fuller Gholson of Sylacauga.
 Immediately after the ceremony the young couple left for Birmingham, where they were present yesterday afternoon at the Wood-Cooper wedding, leaving later for Buchanan, Va, to visit the relatives of the groom MT. Schultz is a popular young business man of this city. He and his bride will make their home with MT. and Mrs. B. A. Cooper in Norwood at 1121 Thirtieth street.
 The wedding of Miss Bessie Shapiro, the daughter of MT. and Mrs. M. Snap fro, to MT. J. D. Cooper will be oele- brated this evening.
 The wedding of Miss Mary Escambia Cooper, the daughter of MT. and Mrs. B. A. Cooper to MT. John W. Wood was impressively solemnized yesterday aft ernoon at o'clock amid a large gather ing of the relatives and friends of the young people at the Cooper home in Norwood Place.
 The home was beautifully decorated, the parlor, in which the nuptial cere- mony was pronounced, being especially lovely with it's Iuxuriant foliage decora- tion of palms and ferns and picturesque draperies of smilax. In that apartment as in the hall a quantity of roses lent their rich beauty and fragrance to the bridal scene. An altar was placed in an alcove of the parlor, banked with ferns and palms, over which was an effective arch, made of smilax and cut flowers. It was here that Dr. A. J. Dick inson performed the ceremony, uniting the bridal pair.
 Miss Cooper entered with her father, meeting MT. Wood at the altar. She was a charming bride in her trailing robe of white duchesse satin, embroidered with pearls and trimmed with laces. She carried a shower bouquet of brides roses and valley lilies.
 Mrs. Morse the sister of the groom, played Mendelssohn's wedding march for the entrance of the party and during the ceremony Hearts and Flowers" There were no attendants. just as there were no pre-nuptial festivities, owing to re- cent bereavement in the family of the bride.
 Mrs. Wood has a large circle of friends who are interested in her happiness. MT. Wood holds a responsible position with the Tennessee company and also has many business and personal friends.
 They left last evening for bridal trip which will include Ashevile and Toxa- way. N. C., Washington, and other points in the east After about two weeks they will return and make their home with the brides parents, MT. and Mrs B. A. Cooper, in Norwood Place.
 MT. and Mrs. James I. Walker of Will Transport Tenn. have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Caro- lyn, to MT. James La Fayette Davidson