Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-20
WILSON WEDDING
IS SIMPLE AFT AIR
Neither Army, Navy or Diplomatic
Corps Represented No Attend
ants or Tshers.

Washington, Dec. 2e.-President
Wilson and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait
were married at $50 o'clock Saturday 1
night.
All arrangements for the wedding
ceremony were carried out perfectly, /
the president arriving at his brides
home soon after 6 o'clock and the re-
mainder Of the wedding party, which |
numbered less than 30, following soon
after.
President dined as usual at White I
house at 6 o'clock with his daughters /
and afterward drove to his brides |
home, about mile from the execu |
tive mansion. A cold driving rain /
which swept the city all day cleared |
off at sunset and the evening was cool
and pleasant. Because the wedding |
arrangements and the hour Of the ceTe- |
mony had been kept a close secret |
there were few on the streets about
the White house, but near the BRIDES |
home the crowd was held back by POI |
lice lines spread during the afternoon. |
Everything was in readiness for |
ceremony when the president arrived, |
and it proceeded without music. Meth |
er the president nor Mrs. Gait had any
attendants, and there were no ushers
or flower girls, Neither the army, the
navy or the diplomatic corps was
! represented, and the occasion was es-
sentialiy what both of the couple had
wished it TO be-a home wedding.
On the first floor of the brides
home, in two communicating rooms, a 1
wedding bower had been arranged with
background of farieyance and maid
| enhair ferns which extended from the
/ floor to the ceiling. Overhead there was
a canopy Of green in the form Of a she'll
/ lined with Scotch heather In the back
ground and at the center was placed
/ large mirror framed with orchids and
rejecting the scene. Above the mirror
was a spray of orchids across a back
ground OF ferns and the corners of the
canopy were caught with orchids.
American Beauty roses were on both
sides Of the canopy beneath which was
la prayer rug on which President Will
| son and Mrs. Gait kneIt during the
ceremony.
Just at the hour set for the cere-
mony the president and his bride ap-
peared at the head of the staircase
which was decorated with ferns, as
paragus vines and American Beauty
roses They descended to the lower
floor where the guests were grouped
about informally,
(! Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rector Of
St. Margaret's Protestant Episcopal
church, of which the bride is q COM
municant, was waiting beneath the
canopy to perform the ceremony, and
with him, 10 assist, was the presidents
pastor. Rev. James Fl. Taylor of the
central Presbyterian church.
Mrs. William Fl. Boiling, the brides
mother, gave her away. The presi-
dent stood to the right OF the clergy
men and the bride stood to their left
/ At once, DR.. Smith began the words of
the Episcopal marriage service, the
president making his responses first
and then the bride making hers After
the bride promiseR 70 Love, cherish
and obey the president placed the
wedding ring, a plain band of gold, up
on her finger and then, after a prayer
and while the couple ~-clasped their
right hands together, Dr. Smith de-
clared them man and wife. The brief
and simple ceremony was over.
The entire party then turned to the
dining room, where a buffet supper
was served. The decorations there
were in pink, and on the Bullets were
banked growing ferns and pink roses.
The tables were decorated with Lady
Stanley rose blossoms. On a table in
the center was a wedding eake-a fruit
cake several layers high, ornamented
with sprays of pink orchids in the GEN.
ter, Mrs. Wilson cut the cake without
Formally and no arrangement was
made for bestoging bits of it upon
others than those in the wedding party
The guests at the wedding included:
Mrs. William II. Boiling of this city,
the brides mother; Mrs. Matthey H.
Maury, Admission, Ala. Mrs, Alexander
H. Gait Of this city and Miss Bertha
Boiling, sisters of the bride, her five
brothers, John Randolph Boiling,
Richard ". Boiling and Julian B. Boil
ling Of this city; DR.. William F. Boil
ling, Louisville, KY, and Rolfe E. Boil
ling Of Panama; her brothers, n-law,
Alexander II. Gait of this city; three
sisters-in-law, Mrs. Julian B. Boiling,
Mrs. Rolfe E. Boiling and Mrs. Rich
ard ". Boiling; Secretary and Mrs.
William c. McAdoo Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis B. Sayre Of WiIliamstown,
Mass; Miss Margaret Wilson; Miss
Helen Woodrow Bones, the presidents
cousin; Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph r. Wilson
OF Baltimore, the former the brother of
the president; Miss Alice Wilson, the
presidents niece; Mrs. Anna Howe OF
Philadelphia, the presidents sister;
Mrs. Anne Cothran, the presidents
niece; Josephine Cothran, the presi-
dents grandniece; Secretary Tumulty: