The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03


 maids to the altar. They stood within party had joined them, and the betrothal service having been spoken here, all as cended to the altar for the remainder of 1 the ceremony.
 The ushers and groomsmen were Mr. | II. c. Seibe4s MT. William Hazzard, Mir Seaborn Whatley of Montgomery, MT. Fulton Towers of Erie, Ind, MT. William I. J. Dunn and Mir Ryburn Pinckard.
 They were followed to the altar by the six bridesmaids, who entered in pairs. The first were Miss Mary Kirk patrick and Miss Charlotte Hopkins of Evansville, Ind, the second Miss Mary Campbell and Miss Dorothea Orr, and the last couple Miss Belle Roberts and Miss Fannie Dunn. Six prettier girls l cannot be found than these five young Birmingham women and the other a former Birmingham girl. The present fashions are particularly suited to tue l bridesmaids costume. Last night the gowns were built of pink brocaded | marquisette, with trailing draperies and simple trimmings. The foundation of each was a soft pink messaline and i each was cut with slightly low neck and charming little short sleeves The costumes were completed by dainty pink gauge caps, surrounded, some of them, with pink mass rosebuds, others with tiny satin rosebuds, and others still adorned with one half-blown bud. Each girl carried a great arm bouquet of pink Killarney roses.
 Miss Marjorie Weatherly was Miss Means lovely maid of honor. She was attired for the evening in a pink robe made of embroidered chiffon over satin in a picturesque mode suited to her unusual type of beauty. Her cap was surrounded with pink rosebuds and she carried big bouquet of roses and lilies of the valley.
 Mrs w Ormond Young of Richmond, Va, Miss Means maternal aunt, was her matron of honor She was noted with much admiration for her beauty and stately carriage. Her gown was a Partisan creation of pink brocaded velvet and she carried a beautiful French bouquet of rosebuds.
 Miss Means entered with her father. l MT. Robert Preston Means, meeting MT. Nesbit and his best man, Mir Ralph | Nesbit, in the chancel, and ascending | with him the altar steps to receive the l vows. Rev. pr. Willoughby Claybrook, | rector of St. Mary's, was the officiating 1 divine.
 In q robe of rich satin. whose train fell al great length with age-old pearls 1 and priceless laces whose yellow tint betokened their use by many brides of long ago, Miss Means might have stepped from some lovely old picture. She was one of the most beautiful of all Birmingham beautiful brides. Her gown was made with a slightly low n of hc softest and most flmy chiffon and a superb bertha of point lace which had been worn on the wedding gown of Miss Means mother The train was caught from the front and hung in an especially graceful fashion. the side being outlined in another broad cream lace which has been long a treasure of the brides family and adorned the wedding robes of several brides An- other cascade rose point and duchesse fell to the hem of her gown. making it especially rich in it's ivory tinted sarnitures. Clasping the lovely neck was a string of seed pearls strung in rope fashion and one of her wedding gifts. A beautiful heirloom, however which added romance as well as beauty to the wedding service was the neck lace of pearls which is an ancestral ornament and whose rich pendants hung to the soft yoke of her gown. It is surrounded wirh pendants grad uated in size to an especially large front ornament and each is entirely made of seed pearls varied from the tiniest to the large gems which form the centers of the pendants. A part ot the suit is a great brooch also of pearls and in similar design. These orEa- ments have been worn by several ger erations of brides in the Palmer fam fly. The brides veil was made in the ,J fashion hxra string of pearls which were the gers | of Miss Means grandmother.
 l The jewels and old lace ornamented | beauty of the patrician type, making the sweet, soft-eyed bride as sweet and gra- cfous a bride as ever came from old Vir- ginia, her native state. Her costume was l completed by brides bouquet of roses and lilies of the valley.
 Following the celebration of the mar | riage buffet supper was served to the | bridal party and a few intimate friends 1 of the family at the home of Mr and Mrs Means. The residence was simply but prettiy decorated in pink roses and | greenery. The brides table was GOV cred with pink satin, over which was drawn beautiful Parisian cloth lav- ishly embroidered. The wedding gifts displayed in the adjoining library formed an interesting and beautiful collection. There were beautiful old silver and crys- tai candelabra. heavy silver pitchers and goblets, an old silver mirror. a quaint old
 mahogany sewing table and countless other priceless old treasures besides other beautiful things of modern work manship.
 MT. and Mrs. Means received the guests | inform ally. They were the most delight ful of hosts. Mrs Means wearing hand
 some Parisian reception robe of royal
 blue chiffon embroidered in steel.
 The marriage of Miss Means and Mir
 Nesbit mites two fine old southern fam
 flies. Her mothers family, the Palmers
 and that of her father, are among the
 most dlstinguished of Virginia's first fam
 lies MT. Nesbt is a Carolinian of proud
 birth, who by his own fine traits of char
 acter and splendid intellect, has won an
 enviable place in this young community
 He is young lawyer who holds a high
 position in his profession and as a mem
 Ter of the clubs, is popular socially as
 well.
 Among the out of town guests who were
 present at the wedding were Colonel Pal-
 mer of Richmond, Va, the brides grand
 father; MT. and Mrs. Charles Shannon
 of Camden, s. C.. and MT. Ralph shan
 ron; Mir. and Mrs. John Means of Mil
 wauleee. and Mrs. Frank w. Christian
 of Richmond. Mrs. Christian was very
 distinguished in a black satin robe gar
 ntured with jet. Mrs. John Means wore
 a handsome white satin evening gown
 made with an overdress of silver beaded
 sauae. and Mrs shannon was much ad-
 mlred in a hand-painted chiffon evening
 robe of the palest blue.
 MT and Mrs Nesbt left last night Q for Cuba to be absent until January l. d when they will be at home with Mir and