Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-29
WEDDING.
PuIIen-oresson.

Pullen-0regson.
With each detail in music floral
decorations and color scheme combin-
ing to make 1t a singularly beautiful
and impressive ceremony, the largest
and most brilliant wedding of the sea-
son took place ON Friday evening in
the Central Baptist church, when Miss
Irene Gregson became the bride of
weston Carpenter Pullen and at the
hour Of the ceremony, for which $50
invitations had been issued, the church
was filed with a fashionable assem-
blage of the friends of the bridal cou-
pie, including number of guests from
out of town.
For over half hour preceding the
time set for the wedding the follow
ingS programme was rendered upon
| the organ by Professor Frank L. Far
| rell:
Introduction to the third act of
Gohengr1n ................ Wagner
Adagio Cantabile ......... Beethoven
1occato '..'.............. Frys1nger
E'enSone :----.......... johnston
Laudate Dominum .......... Sheldon
Forming a floral bank before which
the ceremony was performed, palms
and ferns with spiraea and marguer-
ties were gracefully arranged upon
the pulpit and the color scheme in the
| church decorations in white upon the
| green background was further carried
| out In the organ gallery, where there
| was a screen of palms with spiraea-
The section of seats reserved for the
| guests was indicated by white rib
| bons with bouquets of blushing bride
| gladioN and antherium.
The ceremony was at 7.30, the bridal
party entering by the south aisle to
| the music of the bridal chorus from
Lohengrin. The eight ushers, w. Rus
| sell Baird Edward F. Jewett, J. Henry
shannon, Lee Roy Robbins, Lloyd E.
Jennings of Meriden, w. Humphrey
Almy, William E. Perry and Richard
P. Gregson, preceded the bridesmaids,
who were Miss Lucy A. Gregson,
cousin, and Miss Dorothy Gregson,
| sister of the bride; Miss Marion L.
Pullen. sister of the groom; Miss
| Pauline D: Hoffman of Hartford, Miss
Dorothy Robertson of Meriden, Miss
Grace T. Lester Miss Esther Pullen,
a sister of the groom, and Miss NJ
| Esther Lippitt of New Haven. They
| were followed by the maid of honor
| Miss Christine Gregson, the brides
sister. The bride entered with her IA
| ther, Squire Gregson, and at the altar
| met the groom, who had entered by
the other aisle, with his best man, his
brother, Benedict c. Pullen.
The bride was most eXquisitely
| gowned in white satin with princess
lace and court train, her veil of prin-
cess lace arranged in cap effect with
| organse blossoms. She wore the
| gift of the groom a diamond and
platinum lavalliere and chain, and
carried a shower bouquet Of lilies of
the valley and white orchids
| The maid of honor was beautifully
| gowned in rose pink faille trimmed
with cream lace with short veil of
| filet lace and net and carried an arm
/ bouquet OF pink roses and white mar
| guerites. The color scheme for the
bridesmaids was pink and blue, four
| in blue Powered taffeta and four in
| pink, made in colonial design, and
| each bridesmaid carried a pink basket
with large pink bows, pink roses and
maiden hair fern.
The full Episcopal double ser
vice was used. Rev. DR.. J. B. Slo-
cum, pastor of the church officiating,
! assisted by Rev. DR.. S. H. Howe, pas
tor of the Park Congregational church
| At the benedictOry prayer the bridal
couple knelt upon a white satin pillow
| arranged m a bank of fern. and dur
| ing the ceremony, To a Wild Rose
| CMacDowelD. was softly rendered up
| on the organ.
The occasional was the Mendelssohn
wedding march, the bridal party leav-
ing the church by the north aisle.
After the ceremony there was a
reception from s to 10 for about 100
guests at the home of the brides par
ents on Joseph Perkins road where
those receiving with the bridal couple
were Mr.. and Mrs Squire Gregson,
parents of the bride; Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank H. Pullen, parents of the groom,
and Miss Elizabeth Pullen, sister of
the groom.
Mrs. Gregson was gowned in orchid
lavender meteor crepe. en- train, trim
med with real lace, and wore a corsage
bouquet of lilies of the valley. Mrs.
Pullen wore white brocaded satin with
rose point and duchess lace and or
chids and Miss Pul1en wore turquoise
blue taffeta. with irridescent bodice.
| The floral decorations at the house
were completely in white and pink, in
which pink and white roses and blush
| ing bride gladioli were used in profu-
sion with maiden hair fern and a can
opy effect in asparagus fern in the
reception room.
| The dining room, where a bridal
| wedding breakfast was served for the
bridal party was lovely with its dec
| orations in gladioH and lilies of the
| valley on the table while the brides
maids baskets were used for the man
| tel decorations. Mrs. w. Russell
Baird Mrs Lee Roy Robbins, Miss
| Elizabeth Pullen and Earle G. Mathew
son were included with the bridal par
| ty at the breakfast.
| The Harmony club played during
the evening and the floral decorations
| were by Geduldig.
| The wedding date was the 18th we'd
ding anniversary of the wedding of
| the parents of the bride.
| The newly married couple left dur
ing the evening for short wedding
| friT haiY xxyiII