The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-22
WOMEN ano SOCIET TY|
Items Of Interest t0 Montgomery
 and to the State

v ana Co fkaG Se0te # szssHzmER1mw@mHmmmam Mimm3z place, for herself in the society, of the Empire State of the South and at the fashionable watering places where she has passed the two seasons of her young ladyhood. Stili another reason why Montgomerians are inter- ested In this wedding is because our own social favorite. the lovely Mrs. Louis Farley composed one, of the house party atsthe Governors Mansion, and sat at the brides table" so beau tifuily described in the following from The Atiapta Constitution of Sun day;
 Description.
 The marriage of Miss Mary Brent smith and Mir. Ronald Ransom was solemnized last evening at o'clock at khe North Avenue Presbyterian church. the ceremony performed by the pastor. Rss. l0rms Finn, and witnessed by a large assemblage of relatives aid friends.
 Mr. W. M Hutchinson was best man and the bride was attended by her sisters. Misses callie and Lucy smith, and by group of iittle children. Cor nelia Moore, Mary Cohen, Thomas Hull and Howell Jackson.
 The usa CTS. Messrs. Louis Gholstin, samuel Evans, ! Russell Porter, George c. Spence. James L. Anderson. Lee Jordan. Hudson Moore. Reuben Ar mold, preceded the bridal patty, as they entered the church, the wedding march from Tannhauser being played on the organ. Miss callie smith fol- lowed.
 Carrying baskets of foses and lilies. the little folks came next, Mary Coz hen with Thomas Hull and Cornella Moore with Howell Jackson.
 Miss Lucy Smith directly preceded the bride, who entered with her fath- CT. and was met by the groom and his best man at the foot of the altar, where tlas Impressive ceremony was performed.
 The Mendelssohn wedding march was played as the bridal party left the church, a reception following at the executive mansion, to which rela- tives and intimate friends were bid den.
 The bride was handsome and dis tipguiehed in regal wedding gown Of heavy white satin made directoire Style. Down the front and back of the gown were stole panels of white satin embroidered in orchids, the cor- sage being trimmed in point lace. Her tulle we'll was adjusted with orange blossoms, and she carried bouquet of orchids showered with valley lilies.
 The bridesmaids wore white chiffon gowns trimmed in lace, and carried bouquets of lilies, and the little girls, Mary Cohen and cornelia Moore, wore white lace gowns and pink flowers.
 The DeeoFnfaona.
 The decorations at the church were splendid in the hundreds of electric lights used and the artistic arrange fnent of flowers and ferns.
 The bridal party passed through an aisle of paims, and. on entering, the edifce seemed to be converted into a bower of foliage and lights.
 Outside of each pew, on the sides of the middle aisle. were tall pedestale of white. festoonsd by smiiax and tulle. and surmonnted by decorated jardinieEes holding wood-Ieafed potted palms
 The vaulted ceiling above the altar was hung with gaplands of smiiaxs forming canopy. from which hung ehoweF or stars. Tn the center of this canopy there hung burst of valley while banked high at the altar were the tall, stately Easter lilies.
 On each side Of the altar the lights of many waxen tapers In tall brass candiesticks showed against banks of palms, and wherever the eye turned 1t was to rest upon an artistic arr rangement of flowers.
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 The decorations continued in elab- orateneaa and beauty ct the mansion, ana included a luxury of palms, ferns, roses, lilies and enchantEess carnations. Tn the hallway. the arches were hung In amilax, and the long mirror on the end reflected q burst of Easter lilies. On each side 6f the hall, under bowers of broad d-ieafed palms, punch was served; one bowl decorated with green and purple tinted grapes, and the other with snlilax and tangerines. At the base of the stairway was a bank of palms ana Easter lilies, and q touch Of pinlSiah color given in tell vase filled with enchantFess carnations, and placed before the mirror of the hall | cabinet.
 In the blue room directly within the entrance halls, where the bridal party 1 received congratulations the decora- tions were restfuI in their effect of white and green, the Easter lily, the | flower ueed with banks of palms and ferns as a background
 Plotted lilies, with their full fragrant | blossoms, were used at the base of the mantel, and tall vases filled with them were in front of the mirror The Brides TahIe. Across the hall. in the old rcd room was the brides table, ct which forty xuesta were seated The decorations | here surpassed In elegance and artistic detail any in NAtianta's social history. The table. twsnty-f0uF feet long and | fourteen feet wide, was covered with Venetian lace within few inches oi the place plates.
 In the center was a mound of maiden 1 hair fern, surmouuted by a cut glass bowl three feet in diameter and fillsp with pink roses and valley lilies. Near each end of the table were smaller mounds of fern, sprmounted by cut glass vases three feet in heiGht and filled with bouquets of pink roseg ! showered with the lilies.
 Just within the border of the lace cloth. and some distance from the een- I tral decoration was a garland plateau of pink Foses and lilies, extending the | length and breadth of the table, within