Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-17
Details Describe
Brilliant Wedding

Details of the marriage of Lieutenant
Marcellus Thompson OF the Coast Ar
tilIery corps to Miss Dorothy Harvey,
which took place last Wednesday at
the country home of the brides par
ents at Deal, N. j., have reached the
city. They will be of interest, since
the bridegroom made his home at the
Rock Island arsenal during the time
that his father, now assistant chief of
ordnance at Washington, was sta
toned as commander of that post.
The following from the New York
Times of Thursday tells of the we'd
ding:
The wedding of Lieutenant Mar
cellus II. Thompson Of the Coast Ar
tillery corps, u. S. A, and Miss Dor
othy Harvey. the daughter of Colonel
and Mrs. George Harvey, was cele-
brated yesterday afternoon at o'clock
with picturesque features at Jorjalma,
the country home of the brides par
ents, at Deal, n. J. The ceremony OF
crossed swords, with the officers in
full dress uniform as best man and
ushers, was used.
Decidedly the most attractive ar
rangement for the nuptials was having
the ceremony performed at the per
COLA in the garden of old-fashioned
flowers which fianked the east ground
near the low. rambling house. Half
an hour before the hour appointed it
began to rain, but this did not inter-
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party and the immediate relatives
stood unsheltered from the rain dur
ing the ceremony, which was per-
formed by Rev. Herbert Shipman, rec
tor of the Church of the Heavenly
Rest, assisted by Rev. F. T. Swezey.
But it was very gentle rain, more
like heavy, drizzling mist from the
sea, which can be seen from the es-
tate when the weather is clear, and it
fell like a benediction on the bride and
her attendants, whose gowns matched
the great masses of sweet peas which
they held in their arms. The orches-
ira played under a spreading apple
tree, laden with fruit, where many of
the guests were assembled. Others
looked on from the broad piazzas.
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march was played the bridal party
walked from the north wing of the |
house, down the garden path, which |
was spread with rugs, and made into |
an aisle bordered with flowers and |
white satin ribbon, attached to gilt |
standards, to the entrance of the white |
pergola from the roof of which was
suspended a wedding bell formed of
asters. The officiating clergymen |
stood in the pergola, and the couple |
knelt on white satin cushions on the !
entrance steps.
THE bride, who walked with her
father, wore a gown of heavy white /
satin draped with rose point lace,
caught up with clusters of orange
blossoms, and court train. Her veil
IF tulle fell in graceful folds to the end
Of her train, and was held about the
She carried a large bouquet of lilies
IF the valley.
Miss Margaret Payne Luce was
maid of honor. She wore a frock of
avender and pink, and her hat and
rock were trimmed with sweet peas.
The bridesmaids included the Misses
ienevieve Champ Clark, daughter of
Speaker and Mrs. Clark; Grace Leslie
Johnston, Cecilia Brewster, and Jes-
;ica Award. They were in frocks of
pink taffeta, with the pannier effect
md cream lace, and wore hats gar
anded with sweet peas.
1.-The best man and ushers were in
ull dress uniform, and the gold and
,lue harmonized with the pastel
hades of the bridal attendants and
he reds and yellows of the flower gar I
len. The best man was Lieutenant F.
:. Harrington of the engineers corps,
J S. A, and the ushers included Cap (
ain J. ]. Walsh, U. S. A; Lieutenant