The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-20
WEDDING Of MRS GAIT
To PRESIDENT WILSON
SIMPLE AND IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY FOLLOWED BY
A HONEYMOON AT HOT SPRINGS
(AssOciated Press)

Washington, D. c., Dec. 19.-Presi-
dent Wilson and Mrs. Edith Boiling
Gait were married at $50 O'Clock
last night and left afterward to spend
their honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va.
The president and his bride travelled
in a private car attached to special
train leaving here at 11:10 o'clock,
which is due to arrive in Hot Springs
today at 8:15 a. m.
At Hot Springs Mr.. and Mrs. Viii
son will live at the Homestead Hotel
until after New Years day unless
some development should necessitate
the presidents earlier return to the
capital. Two of the White House. au-
tcmboiles have been sent on ahead
and the couple expect ry spend their
honeymoon motoring, golfng and
walking over the mountain trails. Be-
side the secret service guard the party
was accompanied by one stenegraph-
er. The president will keep in touch
with the White House over special
wires. Because the hour of the we'd
ding was known to comparatively few
people, there was not large crowd in
the vicinity of the brides home, al
though a large police guard had been
provided.
All arrangements for the wedding
ceremony were carried out perfectly,
the president arriving at his brides
home soon after o'clock and the re-
mainder of the wedding party which
numbered less than thirty, followed
soon after. The ceremony was begun
as had been arranged at $50 o'clock
and was followed by a buffet lunch
con. Mrs. Wilson was married in the
travelling gown she wore to the train.
No Attendents
Everything was in readiness for the
ceremony when the president arrived
and it proceeded without, music.
Neither the president nor Mrs. Gait
had any attendants and there were
no ushers or flower girls. Neither the
army, the navy, nor the diplomatic
corps was represented and the oc-
casion was essentially 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 wedding bower had been arranged
with background of farleyanse and
maidenhair fern which reached from
the floor TO the ceiling, Overhead
there was canopy of green in the
form of a shell lined with Scotch
heather. In the background and at
the center was placed a large mirror
framed with orchids and rejecting
the scene. American Beauty roses
were on both sides of the canopy, be-
meath which was a prayer rug on
which the president and Mrs. Gait
knelt during the ceremony.
Appear on Stair
Just at the hour set for the cere-
mony the president and his bride ap-
peared at the head of the staircase,
which was decorted with ferns, as
paragus vines and American Beauty
roses. They descended to the lower
floor, where the guests were grouped
about informally.
The Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rec
tor of St. Margaret's Protestant-Epis-
copal church, of which the bride is a
communicate was waiting beneath
the canopy to perform the ceremony,
and with him, to assist, was the pres
ident's pastor, the Rev. James Fl. Tay-
lor of the Central Presbyterian church.
Mrs. William Boiling, the brides
mother, gave her away. The president
stood on the right of the clergy
men and the bride stood on 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. AT
ter the bride promised to 'love, cher
ish and obey" the president placed
the wed ding ring, plain band OF
gold, upon her finger, and then, after