Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-12
MISS WILSON FIFTEENTH
WHITE HOUSE BR|DE;PAR|S
MODES IN HER TROUSSEAU

White House bride, In 1874 Nellie
Grant was married to Algernon Sar.
toris an Englishnan Of wealth.
The same year Colonel Fred Gran,
married Miss Honore. Of Chicago.
In 1878 Miss Emily Plat, a niece OF
President Hayes, was married to
General Russell Hastings.
President Cleveland and Miss
Frances Folsom, of Buffalo. were
married in 1886.
Twenty years later Miss Alice
Roosevelt, daughter of President The
odore Roosevelt, was married to Rep
resentative Nicholas Longuorth. Of
Ohio.
Ten of these brides took the VOWS
i'll the White House. ana four came to
Washington and lived in the Presi-
dents house Those who came we're
Mrs, Andrew Jackson Jr.. married in
Philadelphia; Mrs. Abrdm VanBuren.
married in South Carolina; Mrs. John
Tyler. married in New York, and Mrs.
Fred Grant. married in Chicago.
Demurred at Display
Four sons and four daughters Of
Presidents have spent their early
married days in the White House
They We're the sons of John Quincy
Adams, Jackson. VanBuren and Grant
and the daughters of Monroe, Tyler,
Grant. and Roosevelt.
The scale of magnif,euce steadily
assembled until it reached the climax
in Miss Alice Roosevelt's wedding.
The Wilson wedding will be simpler
and less gorgeous than the Roosevelt
marriage.
A report of the first White House
wedding says that Mrs jackson. the
bride was a beautiful girl of Phila-
delphia Tie dashirg consort Of the
President Dolly Madison, brought
about the wedding in the White
House to furnish a social sensation.
The bride was a Quakeress, and is
said to have demurred at the lavish
display, but the festivities were
nine-day wonder in Washington"
Mr.. Jackson's colleagues in Con-
gress and all prominent Government
officials outside of Congress attended
the wedding.
Miss Plat was married to General
Hastings in the Blue Room under l5,-
600 buds and blossoms. Ii was
o'clock in the evening, and the Cabi-
net members and their families were
there. The Marine Band played the
wedding march. and the bride elect
came in on the arm of her uncle,
President Hayes
No Wedding in Mckinley Term.
II has been said recently that
niece of Mrs. Mckinley was married
at the White House while President
Mckinley was there, but Hnen who
have been employed at the White
House for 80 years never heard of 1t,
Miss Jessie Wilson win be the elev-
enth bride to be married at the White
House and the fifteenth to spend time
there after her marriage.
Notwithstanding Miss Wilson's pa
triotic intention of having an all
American trOusseau, and the fact that
her wedding gown Is not only of
American workmanship, but of Amer
lean satin from Paterson, n. J., the
White House bride has succumbed to
the prevailing French modes and has
included at least three direct impor-
tations in her new wardrobe.
The wedding gown made in New
York Is. according to all bridal tradi-
tons, being kept concealed until the
wedding day Mrs, Wilson was pres
ent at the final fitting but no one else
has had even a peep at this most i'm
portant item of the rousseau. And
this, in the face of assertions that
Miss Jessie Wilson has no supersti-
tons and enjoys being described as
the thirteenth White House bride
Has Court Train.
While a private view Of the we'd
ding gown is denied even to the clos
est friends of its wearer, it is known
that the model selected by Miss VII
son calls for three yard court train
foundation skirt in the prevailing
full width Of the satin, with the
silhouette, that is. close at the ankles,