The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-21
Wedding in New York Is
 Very Brilliant Affair ROUGH RIDERS PRESENT
Colonel Roosevelt and Family Take an IncOnspicuOus Part in Ceremony. Presents to the Bride Are
 Numerous and Costly

New York, June 20--Theodore Roose- velt Jr, and Miss Eleanor Butler Alex ander were married at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the Fifth Avenue Presby- terian church. Bride and bridegroom knelt on white satin cushions for thei- responses.
 The voice of the bride was inaudible. Mr. Roosevelt said T do" with an em- phasis that brought many smiles upon the faces of the guests.
 Long before the hour set for the wed- ding the neighborhood of the church was packed with crowds. special detail of 100 policemen held the curious people at a safe distance to prevent their finger ing the texture of the dresses Of guests Over the shoulders of the officers peered milliners and dressmakers, notebooks in hand.
 Miss Alexander was escorted to the church by the same mounted officer, an old cavalryman of Spanish days, who rode at the elbow of Theodore Roosevelt last Saturday in the land parade from the Battery to Central Park; and when she came out as Mrs. Theodore Roose- welt, Jr., he saw her safely to the re- ception given after the ceremony at the home of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, an aunt of the bride.
 Rough Riders Present
 Conspicuous among the guests were 41 Rough Riders in khaki uniforms. Colo mel Roosevelt decided this morning 1t would never do to let his old comrades
 Of and accordingly he sent out hurry call at the eleventh hour to as many as were to be found.
 The troopers sat in the gallery. When the colonel had taken his place with dignity he turned to look for them and when they waved at him he waved back with boyish freedom.
 More beautiful floral decorations than those of the church today are not re- membered at any of the brilliant we'd dines to which sophisticated city has grown used in decorations. The bridal walk to the altar was lane of white roses and liles of the valley. Each pew was lined with roses on a background or feathery ferns. Pink Rambler roses all most hid the organ.
 The pulpit was carpeted in roses. Ine n,llows were wreathed in roses. Roses framed the windows
  Q nd their children, Quentin and Archie. Eehind them sat MT. and Mrs. Nicholas I,ongworth Mrs Longworth wore a white chiffon gown trimmed with black and pale yellow with big black and yellow hat and profuslon of jewelry.
 Bride'a Dress
 The bride wore a high-necked dress os soft white satin and tulle, richly tr;mmed with duchesse lace, which had hean worn by the brides mother and gra ndmother at their weddings, Her train was three yards long and her veil fel to her waist line.
 Tbe mother of the bride, Mrs. Henry A ddison Alexander, gave her away. Mrs. Alexander wore a pale yellow chlnon dress with Louis XIV train or blue. ana gold hrocade and a large hat trimmed wi.h a single very large ostrich plume. The natron of honr was Mrs Snowden Fahnestock, who was Miss Elizabeth pertron until a few weeks ago, when Miss Alexander was maid of honor at her wedding. She wore bodice of dull pink tafYeta and carried forget-me-nots as flowers.
 The bridesmaids were Miss Ethel Roose- velt(. the bridegrooms sister; the Misses Harriet and Janetta Alexander, cousins of the bride, and Miss Jean W. De1ano and Miss Jessie Mllington Drake. They wore leghorn hats trimmed with roses and white chiffon gowns were worn. Bou- ouets of pink Rambler roses were in their arms.
 The ushers were George Emelin Roose- welt and Monroe Douglas Robinson, cous- '1ns of the, bridegroom. and George F. B.