White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1915-12-24
PRESIDENT WILSON
MARRIED SATURDAY
MRS. GAIT PROMINENT IN WASH
INGToN SOCIETY, is THE
BRIDE.
CEREMONY AT EVENING time
Episcopal Service Used-onIy Thirty
Guests Present, Most All Relatives
Honeymoon at Hot Springs
Were Few Presents.

Honeymoon at Hot Springs
Were Few Presents.
Washington Woodrow
Wilson and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait
were married here at $3.50 o'clock Sat-
urday night with a simple ceremony
spoken in the BRIDES home in the
presence of less than 30 guests, virau-
ally all of whom were relatives. They
left at lilo o'clock for a two weeks
honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va. They
travelled in a private car attached to a
special train.
To avoid the crowds the couple took
their car at Alexandria, suburb, 10
miles away.
A Home Wedding.
A cold, driving rain which swept the
city all day cleared off at sunset, and
the evening was cool and pleasant.
Everything was in readiness for the
ceremony when the president arrived,
and it proceeded, without music. Meth
er the president nor Mrs. Calf had
any attendants, and there were no
ushers or flower girls. The occasion
was essentially what both of the cou-
pie had wished it to be-a home we'd
ding.
The Decorations.
On the first floor of the brides
home, in two communicating rooms, a
wedding bower had been arranged
with a background of farbyanse and
maidenhair ferns which extended from
the floor to the ceiling. American
beauty roses were on both sides of the
canopy, beneath which was prayer
rug on which President Wilson and
Mrs. Gait knelt during the ceremony.
The Ceremony.
Just at the hour for the ceremony
the president and his bride appeared
at the head of the staircase. They de-
scended 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
communicate, was waiting beneath the
canouy to perform the ceremony, and
with him to assist was the presidents
pastor, the Rev. James H. Taylor of
the Central Presbyterian church
Mrs. William H. Boiling, the brides
mother, gave her away. The president
stood to the right of the clergymen
and the bride stood on their left. At
once DR.. Smith began the words of the
Episcopal marriage service, the presi-
dent making his responses first and
then the bride making hers. After the
bride promised to "love, cherish and
obey" the president placed the we'd
ding ring, a plain band of gold, upon
her finger and then, after 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.
Bride Cuts the Cake.
The entire party then turned to the
dining room, where a buffet supper
was served.
The tables were decorated with Lady
Stanley rose blossoms. On table in
the center was the wedding cake, a
fruit cake of several layers high, or
namented with sprays of pink orchids
in the center. Mrs. Wilson cut the
cake without formality and no arrange
ment was made for bestowing bits of
it on others than those in the wedding
party.
The Brides Attire.
During the ceremony and at the
luncheon afterward, during which a
string orchestra played, the bride wore
her travelling dress, a black silk velvet
gown, with a picture hat of black
beaver, with no trimmings whatever
except one feather slightly upturned
on the left side. At her throat she
wore the presidents wedding gift, a
magnificent diamond brooch.
The skirt of her gown was of walk
ing length and cut on full lines. The
waist had silken embroidery of blue,
shading from the deep tones of royal
blue to delicate shades Of pastel and
was threaded with silver.
Inc lower part OF the waist was en-
broidered on black net over band of
silver in the design of lilies, below
which was a girdle of black velvet
The sleeves of the gown were Of black
net fashioned in tiny tucks with long
bell-shaped cuffs of embroidered vel
vet which came well down over the
hand. Her collar, which was high and
outstanding, was of black lace. When
she left on her honeymoon journey,
Mrs. Wilson wore over her gown fur
coat and muff to match.
All the men in the party wore con-
ventioual evening dress.
Mrs. Wilson's rousseau.
Mrs. Wilson's trousseau is said by
close friends to be magnificent in it's
extent. Most of it is American made
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