Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-17
BRILLIANT WAS
The WEDDING
in COLUMBIA
OF COUPLE WIDELY KNOWN
StaCkhOuSG- Hawkins WeddinO
a Social Event
columbia Is. c. State.)

house, the only daughter of MIR. and
Mrs. Thomas Bascomb Stackhouse
to Luther Mckay Hawkins of Amer;-
Gus, Ga, was solemnized Thursday
evening at the handsome home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Stackhouse on Laurel street,
The bride is exceptionally popular in
Columbia, and her wedding will be
unsurpassed in interest by any that
| takes place this spring.
The house was decorated most Law
ishly throughout the lower floor, the
large rooms being thrown together 10
furnish ample accommodation for the
throngs of guests who attended the
reception following the ceremony. The
drawing room, where the ceremony
was performed, was beautiful in green
and white, one entire end having an
overhead bower of hot house smilaX
and asparagus fern with the wall be-
hind banked high with palms and
ferns, Easter lilies, bride roses and
long sprays of snowy spirea. Placed
among the foliage and flowers four
pedestals, two on each side, were
topped with crystal candelabra hold
ing blazing white tapers and between
these the bride and groom stood dur
ing the ceremony. The mantle was
banked with Easter lilies and bride
roses and before the great mirror
above, an enormous bow of misty
tulle was arranged with pure white
Ililies caught in it's loops. The hand
some chandelier in this room, and
those throughout the house were dee
GRATED with tulle and smilax.
Before the ceremony Mrs. Robert
D. Earle sang a number of beautiful
songs, with piano accompaniment by
Miss Dick, and violin obligatos by
Miss Margaret Childs.
The wedding march was played by
the Columbia orchestra, installed be-
hind a great mound of tropical plants
at the rear of the hall, and at the
first notes the ushers entered the
drawing room, two and two. They
were William Floyd, George Norris,
Andrew Bethea, Herbert Hawkins, Of
Americas, a brother of the groom;
James Sprunt, of Dillon, and Douglas
Manning, of Dillon.
A pretty sentiment was given to
the ceremony by the fact that the
dame of honor was the brides mother,
Mrs. Stackhouse, who, following the
bridesmaids and the maid of honor,
Immediately preceded her daughter
and stood by her side during the cere-
mony.
The bridesmaids, Misses Margaret
and Eugenia Childs, Celia Gray and
Medora Duncan, of Union, descended
the vine-garlanded stairs in couples
making a charming picture in their
graceful gowns of pink chiffon cloth
over pink crepe meteor, their arms
filled with pink Killarney roses.
The maid of honor, Miss Atlanta
Gibson, of McColl, walked alone, ex-
quisitely gowned in white chiffon
cloth over white crepe meteor, COM
bined deliberately with delicate sha-
dow lace and trimmed with an en-
broidery of crystal and silver. She,
too, carried Killarney roses.
Mrs Stackhouse Immediately fol-
lowing her, wore a handsome gown
of white crepe meteor with panels
hand-embroidered in dull silver and
white and edgings of knotted silk
fringe, white silk roses catching the
modish draperies. She carried a obu-
quet of white roses.
The bride, escorted by her fathe"
made a picture of dainty beauty and
grace in her bridal costume. Her
gown was of white satin over-draped
in embroidered chiffon, the corsage
enriched with costly duchess lace, AMI
the draperies caught with fringed
medallions of pearls and handmade
satin roses The skirt, cascaded at
the side, ended in a graceful train
and a misty wedding veil fell over her
figure caught to the hair with a clus-
ter of lilies of the valley. Lilies o!
the valley showered the beautiful
bunch of bride roses she carried.
The groom, entering from the can
vassed piazza through the wide French
window with his best man, his
brother, William Hawkins, of Atlanta
awaited her coming and the cere.
tmony was performed by the groom
brother-in-law, Rev. ]. Logan Irwin
of Jacksonville, Fla.
A large and brilliant reception fol.
lowed at $3.50 o'clock, several hun
bred guests attending. Receiving ii
the drawing room with the bride anG
groom were Mr.. and Mrs. Stackhouse
parents of the bride, and the groom
mother, Mrs. c. A. d. Hawkins, Of
Americus, who was gowned in blaca
crepe de chine.
Across in the music room, where
pink roses were used with pink can
Sles and rose-shaded lights, puncl
was served by Mrs. Richard T. Dia
and Miss Susan Richardson, and there