The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-08
SOCIETY WEDDING THIS EVENING AT ST. JOHNS CHURCH Daughter of Russell Tomlin- son to Wed Nelson H.
 Downs Brilliant Decorations at Home and Church-Nota-
 ble List of Guests

ble List of Guests What gives promise of being the most brilliant social event of the sea- son is the marriage this evening of Lillie Beatrice Tomlinson, daughter of MT. Russell Tomlinson, ana Nelson Horatio Downs, only son of Mrs. Ed ward Wallace Downs of this city.
 The marriage will be solemnized at half after six at St. Johns Episcipal church, the complete ritualistic cere- mony being employed by the officiat- ing clergyman, Dr. William Henry Lewis. An invitation list comprising 1,500 names has been extended to persons of prominence in this city, New York, Springfield, Derby, An sonia and Waterbury.
 The prospective bride and groom are both popular in the younger set of local society, which renders their wedding an event of importance. MT. Downs IS treasurer Of the Bridgeport Webbing Company, and prior to his engaging in business was a student at Mount Pleasant Military academy at Ossining- g-on-the-Hudson. The bride is a young woman of grace and ac- complishment whose winsome dis position has endeared her to her numerous friends and acquaintances.
 The toilettes of the bride, her at tendants and the ladies of the i'm mediate family are of extreme beauty as to both texture and design. The brides gown is of rich white satin with court train and garnitures of real lace. She will wear a delicate tulIe veil surmounted with orange blossom wreath, and will carry a shower bouquet of lilies of the valley. Her sole jewelled ornament will be a crescent of pearls and diamonds, tip ped with platinum.
 Mrs. John Mills Warren, matron of honor, will precede the bride to the altar, wearing her own wedding gown, of white satin and Duchesse lace, and will carry an arm bouquet of lavender orchids. Mrs. Warren is the sister of the groom and is herself a bride of only a little more than a year.
 In the costumes of the bridesmaids and the flower girls a delicate silvery blue tintSmanifests itself, contributing a soft note of beauty to the ensemble. The gowns of the bridesmaids are of baby blue messaline with overskirts of spangled net and effective trim mings of opalescent pasSamentrie. The young ladies, six in number, Miss Dorothy Tomlinson, cousin of the bride, Miss Eloise Tait, Miss Marjorie Adams, Miss Helen Plumb. Miss Marion Hubbe1l and Miss Nellie Will cox, will carry cluster bouquets of lavender sweet peas with long loops of satin ribbon of corresponding tone.
 Two little cousins of the bride, Miss Elizabeth Morris Bassick and Miss Mary Morris Hincks, will act as flower girls, in dainty frocks of baby blue satin yelled with white crepe null. They will carry baskets of gracefully twined white sweet peas and French marguerites, depending from shoulder sashes of blue satin ribbon.
 mother of the bride, will wear gown of silver gray crepe meteor, with self tone spangled net overdreSs, point lace and diamonds.
 In the immediate party are to be the four aunts of the bride, Miss Tomlinson of this city, Mrs. Charles Fleming of Stratford, and Mrs. Will liam H. Parks of Springfield, Mass. Miss Walter will wear an elaborate creation of white embroidered chif- ion, en traine, with embellishments of real lace; Miss Tomlinson, gown of white satin, embroidered net and point lace; Mrs. Fleming, a robe of pearl gray silk with pearl trimming and point lace; and Mrs. Parks, a gown of light blue satin draped with chiffon and French embroidery. Mrs.
 
 Elizabeth, will wear a hand embrofd- cred frock of silk muslin with garni- lures of baby blue ribbon.
 The mother of the groom, Mrs. Edward Wallace Downs,will be gown ed in French gray marquisette, en ornamented with jet.
 Mrs. Edgar Webb Bassick, an acknowledged belle among the young CT matrons in social circles, will com plete the family party. Her gown is a beautiful Parisian confection of moonlight blue crepe silk en traine and bordered with a design in hand embroidered motifs of a slightly deeper tint.
 Ralph T. Benedict of Waterbury, the groom's cousin, will officiate as best man, the ushers being Frederick Cleveland Bassick, John Mills Warren, John Hawley, l.. J. Derrenbacker. Of Ossining, Edmund A. Rothwell of Bos- ton and Eric Benedict of Waterbury.
 To precede the ceremony, Organist Clark has arranged the following mus ical program:
 Rogers; Canzona, DEnery, Intermez- 20, Callacerts; Minute, Borowski; Bri- dal song, J. H. Rogers.
 To the strains of Lohengrin's We'd ding March, the flower girls and bridesmaids will advance from the chancel to the rear or the cnurcn, where they will meet the bride with the matron of honor. The party will then proceed to the altar where the bride will be given away by her father.
 During the impressive bridal service, the soft cadences of Rubenstein's Melody in F will accompany the sol- emnization of the vows. The bridal recessional, Mendelssohn's Wedding March, will constitute the finale.
 At the conclusion of the ceremony, MT. and Mrs. Downs will hold a con- gratulatory reception at the home of Mrs. Edmund c. Bassick, 1171 Fair field avenue. They will stand before the mirror in the northeast drawing room where guests will assemble to express their felicitations. The mir TOT. banked with pale tined blossoms will form an appropriate background.
 In the capacious refectory the bridal repast will be served immediately af- terward by Caterer Andrews. In the ante hall connecting the main corridor with the dining room, Bentley's orches- tra. in a recherche little bower of palms and Towering plants, will dis course music during the festivities Both of the drawing rooms have been crashed for dancing.
 Horan is in charge of the decora- tions in both the home and the church and has designed the bouquets to be carried by the bride and her attend ants. An elabroate scheme has been employed, the prevailing colors being