The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-06-08
RECEPTION IS HELD
Large Company Assemble At ,Presby.
terrain Church to Honor Young
Couple Many Costly
Presents Given.

In the Presbyterian church.
decked with palms, ferns and lilies
for the occasion, in the presence of
about three hundred friends, Edna
Clare Tanner was last night united
in marriage to Mr.. Charles Harvey
Rawlings, of Anderson.
Shortly before seven O'Clock Miss
Ferrel Shafer played Peer Gynsuit's
Morning" Miss Neff sang.
This was followed by Lohengrin' g
Wedding March to the sweet strains
of which the bridal party approached
the alter through the north aisle.
The wedding ceremony was per-
formed by DIR. Rondthaler, the
groom's pastor at Anderson. The
groom was escorted by his brother
in-law, Stuart Kurtz, as best man.
and the ushers, Chas. Blanchard
of Moline, H., James Ewing OF
Anderson, Eloyds Hill of Phila-
delphia and Hubert Tanner.
The BRIDES maids were Ruth
Chadwick, Bess Butcher of South
Bend. Bess Anterior of Anderson,
and Mabelle Stokes of Chicago.
They wore gowns Of pink chiffon
and carried boquets OF white sweet
peas in cases. The matron OF
honor was Mrs. Stuart Kurtz oil
indianapolis, sister of the groom
Tie bridal path was strewn with
sweet peas by two little flower
girls, Martha and Helen Tanner,
the little four and two year old
daughters of Ed Tanner.
The bride, beautiful in a gown Of
white satin trimmed in pearls, and
carrying large shower ooquet Of
lilies of the valley, was led by her
father to the altar where her arm
was placed in that of the groom and
the marriage was performed amid
music, played softly on the harp
by Ivan Doyle, of South Bend.
After the ring ceremony, the bridal
party retired from the church by
the south aisle, while Mendelsohn' e
Wedding March was played on the
pipe organ.
About $50 friends followed the
Bridal Party to the home OF z. M,
Tanner where the bride and groom
were showered with congratulations.
The home was a profusion OF smilax
draperies, lily-bells. pink tulle
bows. and white satin ribbons. The
dining table had . eenterpiece, q
mammoth basket of pink roses,
and china cupids were suspended
by pink ribbons, isom the chandel-
iers.
The harpist played throughout
the reception. The guests refreshed
themselves by punch from a large
bowl in the hall. They were
served a delicious bridal supper
consisting Of chicken patties,
potato chips hot rolls, pickles and
olives. fruit salad, ice cream in
pink heart shapes with cupids OF
white in relief. cakes with pink
rosebud decorations. after-dinner
minis and coffee.
The supper was served by Carol
HumrichOuser, Grace Miner. Maud
Marks, Martha Bowel, Damaris
Metsker, Fern Snoeberger and veta
Gardner. During the supper q
number of kilograms of congratu-
lations were read from absent
friends.
The bride and groom left last
evening for South Bend. From
there they will 90 to Toledo, by
boat from there to Cleveland, and
on to Atlantic City where they will
spend ten days. After that they
will visit Philadelphia and Wash
ington. They will return to Plym-
outh for few days before going to
their new home which will be at
332IW est Eighth street in Anderson,
where Mr., Rawlings conducts q
large department store.