Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-01-01
Sheppard-Lyon Marriage.

On Wednesday afternoon at hve
o'clock the 18th of December,
marriage of very great interest to
our town and community, was cele-
brated at the Baptist church, when
Miss Ethel Lucille Sheppard was
married to Prof. Thomas Jordan
Lyon.
The prelude to the happy occa-
sion was a musical program on the
pipe organ, ''Nevin's Love Song"
played by Mrs. Mamie N. Tillman
announcing the approach of the
bridal party, and on the eve OF
their entrance to the church, beau
tiful selection from Lucia Di Lam
mermoor pleased the expectant au-
dience.
The decorations were unusually
original and appropriate fora win
ter marriage, the colors being white
and green. The chancel, aisles, choir
gallery and windows were covered
in white with tasteful addition OF
southern smilax, most gracefully
applied. Magnificent palms and
ferns adorned the chance, and from
the corners of the church q drapery
of flmy white, edged with long
and graceful fringe of pine n needles,
gave a beautiful and unique effect.
Promptly at five o'clock The
Bridal Chorus" gave the signal
that the bridal party were entering
and the ribbon pages on the oppo-
site sides of the church entered and
marked the aisles. These were four
very fair and handsome little boys,
Mobley and Wallace Sheppard,
nephew and cousin of the bride,
George Evans and Dozier Tomp-
kins, and were followed by the
ushers, Capt. Romanelle B. Curry,
and Capt. H. Kerr Taylor of Edge
field, members Of the faculty of
the S. c. G. l., Mr.. Thomas H.
Moffatt of Columbia, aud MIR. W..
Wallace Harris of Abbeville enter
ing from opposite sides and stand
ing in pairs, having crossed at the
altar.
After the ushers came the brides
maid, Miss Hannah Rogers of So
ciety Hill, and down the opposite
aisle the dame of honor, Mrs. Percy
Pratt Burns, of Birmingham, Ala,
sister of the bride. Following the
dame of honor was the maid OF
honor, Miss Fannie Sheppard, also
sister of the bride. Just preceding
the flower girls, Margaret Lyon, a
very beautiful little niece of Prof.
Lyon, bore TO the altar a silver
plate on which lay the wedding
ring. She, in turn, was followed by
two little beauties of the brunette
type-June Nicholson and Mary
Marsh, carrying tastefully decorated
baskets from which they scattered
the pathway of the coming bride
with roses and carnations.
As climax to the transcendant
scene of beauty, the bride entered
on the arm of her father, MI. Or
lando Sheppard, and was met at
the altar by the groom and his best
man, Mr.. Percy Pratt Burns OF
Birmingham, Alabama.
While the pastor of the church,
DR.. M. D. Jeffries, spoke the SOL
emn service, beautiful soft-toned
organ accompaniment made con-
cord of sweet sounds and the clos
ing was the ring ceremony and a
prayer, the wedding party passing
out in reverse order to the strains
of Mendelssohn's wedding march.
The attendants wore dresses of
white charmeuse with elaborate
bouquets of American Beauty roses
with graceful maline bows of SINH
lar color. The bride wore magnl-
fcent gown of white charmeuse
with real lace and pearl trimming,
and carried a shower bouquet of
bride roses and lilies of the valley.
Immediately after the ceremony
a reception for almost one hundred
guests took place at the handsome
colonial home of the brides parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Orlando Sheppard.
All of the first floor was thrown
open, and beautiful and unique
decorations, different in each room,
surprised and pleased the eye, as the
guests went from one to the other,
viewing the elaborate array of hand
some gifts, and partaking of the
abundant and delightful three
course refreshments.
The guests from distance were: