St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-10-09
RECENT WEDDINGS
Thnmnson-Peters

ThompSOn-PeterS
Nearly 100 people witnessed the
wedding of Sidney Hammond Thomp-
son and Miss Hortense Peters on
Thursday evening. The ceremony
was performed at half after eight
at the home of the brides parents,
Dr. and Mrs. George F. Cheney. The
house was beautifully decorated for
the occasion, Mrs. Alvin w. Flint
having. charge of the decorations in
which she was assisted by the mem
bers of the bridal party. In the
front parlor hemlock and hydranges
were used, a corner being decorated
for the wedding party with an arch
made with columns and canopy on
top. The doorways were trimmed
with the same and the hall balus-
trade was decorated with autumn
leaves. The same decorations were
used in the library while the dining
room was most attractive with as
paragus with it's red berries.
Promptly at $50 the musicians,
Misses Helen A Boynton and Eliza
beth Peck and Messrs. r. X. and
Raymond Laughlin, stationed in the
upper hall. began playing Mendels-
sohn's wedding march and the min
lister, Rev. G. w. G. Hill, D. D., the
ushers and the groom and his best
man came down from upstairs and
formed an aisle before the arch for
the bride and her attendants. The
best man was John H. Borland of
Dartmouth college, and the ushers
were Albert Kicker of Nashua, N. H.,
Frank Taplin of Binghamton, N. Y,
Allen Britton of Hartland and War
rem L. Peck. At the same time the
hn fr7u
room through the back parlor; first
the four maids, Misses Isabel Noyes
and Ethel Goss, and Misses Marjorie
and Mary Wheeler of White River
Junction, cousins of the bride, the
maid-of-honor, Miss Louise Tyler of
LAGRANGE, ILL.,, and the bride on the
arm of her mother, who gave her
away. The bride was daintily gown
ed in white charmeuse, trimmed
with duchesse lace and cut en- train;
she wore her mothers wedding veil
which was caught with orange bios
SONS and Swedish myrtle and
carried shower bouquet of
bride roses and lilies of the valley.
Miss Tyler wore yellow messaline
with marquisette over it, and she
and the other attendants carried
bouquets of white roses. The brides
maids wore pale blue gowns. The TWO
ring ceremony was used. DIR. and
Mrs. Cheney received the guests be-
fore the ceremony and were assisted
by Mrs. Helen c. Thompson, mother
of the groom. Mrs. Cheney wore
white messaline covered with black
marquisette and black lace and Mrs.
Thompson's gown was of gray mes
saline with gray chiffon over-dress.
At the reception which followed the
ceremony refreshments of ice cream,
cake and candy were served in the
dining room. Mrs. Raymond A. Pearl
and Miss Virginia Grint cut the ice
cream and the assistants were Miss
es Charlotte Bundy, Gertrude Cram
ton, Ruth Bigelow, Helen and Win
fired Woods. Miss Margaret Clark
had charge OF the guest book. The
bride gave her maids silver picture
frames and the groom gave mis-
ushers and best man scarf
pins, both frames and pins be-.
ing the work of the bride.
The wedding gifts we're displayed in
a room upstairs and included money,
silver, china, cut glass, pictures, lin
en-, brass, embroidery, hand-wrought
silver, original painting and oriental
rugs. When the bride went upstairs
after the wedding she threw her
bouquet which was caught by Miss
Ethel Goss. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson
are enjoying a wedding trip which
will include Boston, Yonkers, Phil
adelphia and the Natural Bridge, on
the way to Washington where they
will reside this winter. The bride
was graduated from St. Johnsbury
Academy in 1907 and after attend
ing Wellesley College for a time with
the class of 1911, entered the Bos-
ton School of Metalry where she has
done some very fine work. The
groom is the youngest son of the
late Judge LaForrest H. and Mrs.
Helen G. Thompson. He was grad
uated from st. Johnsbury Academy
in 1905, from Dartmouth College in
1907 and from the Foresty school
of Yale college in 1911 and now has
a position in the United States for
estry department. Guests from away
included Mrs. Parker A. Smith of
Jacksonville, Fla, Mrs. L. p. Thayer
of Morrisville, Mrs. L. d. Wheeler of
White River Junction, Mrs. George
Sylvester of Nashua, N. H, Mrs.
Conrad Smith of Boston and Mrs.
Frank D. Thompson of Barton.