The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-04-17
|NUPTIALS DRAW
SOCIETY THRONG
Smart Set Sees Page aynor
Wedding at Fairfax
Court House.
HONEYMOON In EUROPE
Couple Will Sail Tuesday for Rome
to Be Guests of American
Ambassador.

| Fairfax Court House. Va, April 16.-
| Kneeling before the altar OF historic
Zion Church, where many another stately
bride of the Southland has received the
blessing OF the church. Miss Betsy Page,
daughter of Rev. Frank Page and niece
of Thomas Nelson Page, the American
Ambassador to Italy, WAS married at
s o'clock tonight to Norman J. Gaynor.
of New York, son OF the late Mayor
Gaynor.
Simple and brief was the wedding,
solemnized with the high Episcopal serv-
ice-the service which has Joined the
hearts and fortunes of other Southern
brides to gallants OF the North. II was
a scene of the old South In a setting of
the new. while along the rambling vii
lage street, purred the motorcars of
guests to add a note of incOngruity to
the setting.
All day long the stream of guests.
in motorcars and by electric train,
poured into the little county seat. Not
since Mosby made his famous raid one
March night during the sos has the
Court House" been SO excited. All
through the afternoon the prepare
tions went on. the fashionable guests
strolled the village streets and the
wondering townspeople watched in the
background, fascinated.
Church FILLED TO Doors.
At s o'clock. before a congregation
OF guests that taxed the capacity Of
the old church. there was a hustle at
the church door. and the organ pealed
out the opening bars of The Wedding
March"
The bride. on the arm of her brother.
John Page. moved slowly down the aisle.
attended by her maid-Of-hOnor and sister,
Miss Tillie Page. Stately and calmly,
she walked to the altar aisle, where they
were Joined by the bridegroom and his
best-man, Mr. Jonathan Grout, Of New
York.
AT the altar. in the vestments OF his
faith. stood the brides father and rector
of Zion Church. Rev. Frank Page. There
was simple pathOs in the scene-the
scene of a father. firmly and gently pro-
pounding the vow that took his daughter
from him. the vow that made her a
bride.
Beside DR.. Page. and assisting in the
service, was Rev. DR.. J. W. Morris. pas
tor of the Monument Episcopal Church.
Of Richmond. Va. who had come to Fair
fax for the ceremony. The ushers. Carroll
Sayrc. and r. T. Bedford. OF New York.
and Rufus Gaynor. brother OF the bride.
groom, with Richard Farr. of Fairfax.
had closed in on either side Of the couple.
Reception mt Rectory.
There were few words spoken. a
whispered vow or two. the Passing Of a
ring. prayer. and the ceremony was
over. The couple turned and walked from
the church. and the brilliant assemblage
OF guests filed out behind them.
In the church rectory. more historic
perhaps than the church itself. the rec
tory. where once the guerilla Mosby
pulled Union general from bed, his
prisoner. a reception had been spread for |
the couple. the members of their fami- |
lies and the guests.
Mrs. Gaynor. mother OF the brideg groom
and s. eral Of her daughters. Were there. |
They arrived in a special car from Wash !
nCton this evening. With Mrs. Gaynor |
were Misc Helen Gaynor. Miss Ruth |
iaynor. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vingut. Mr. |
and Mrs. Seward Webb. Rufus Gaynor. !
and +. T. Bedford. fiance Of Miss Helen /
iaynor
HONEYMOON In Europe.
After the reception. the wedding party, /
With the New York guests left for --a.h-
nStOn IN a special rar over the inter
rrhan electric road between here and the
'aptal leaving on late train for
lew York The bride and bridegroom
hen they sail for Europe They will go
" Rome. II is said. where Mr. and Mrs
iaynur will he the guests Of the brid s
ncle. Thomas Nelson Page, the Ambas-
ador to Italy
Among the guests from Virginia We're
IrS. r. NJ Page. of the University of
-irginia Mr.. and Mrs. Roswell Page of
hanover. Va, and Miss Groum. of Fred
rickshurE.
Late tonight. after the tOwnsmen Of
'airfaN had seen TIL bridal couple to the
rain. had watched them climb aboard
nth Eayety and well-wishes showeTed
bout them. and waved them a farewell.
hey assembled at the village store and
FL TO specializing whether the wedding
Pally had been any more exciting than
losbys raid way hack there in the
0s EARLE r. DORSEY.