Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-12-18
May Go in Auto With Bride
TO Baltimore After :.
Ceremony
PLAN FAMILY SECRET.
Strict Privacy Maintained Concern
ing All Details Of Arrangements
For Honeymoon.

washington, Dec. 49, The we'd
,,;ne Of President Wilson ana M IS !,
Morman R. Gait, will be celebrated
,h;s evening at $50 o'clock at the
Nome of the bride, 1903 TWentie'h
street, this city.
Immediately afterward the br'aai
o.,,n,o will leave Washington for a
,,onevmoon trip of perhaps a week.
M their destination has been Kep'
r,ose family secret and prooaniy
will not be announced until after tnS
hride and groom have left the CITY,
1t is reported that they will mo'. ,.
~ TO Baltimore or to some o'i,e'
no;nt outside this city and there tax.
the train. This rumor was clrcui'..a .
I. ,,,hon & became known that the
Presidents yacht Mayhower would
not be used by the bridal party
All plans have been made to aVo,'
.,,,,1;o;ty IN connection with the we'd
ding trip and even the wedding IT, II,
sc,f Photographers, it is sa1d' VIII
he haired from the Gait residence
and from the immediate ncighbor-
hood of the house. 2 Gordon Oh us
+r;et no,;ce, 100 in number, will be
thrown about the place and only the
invited guests permitted to pass
through.
n S now expected that approsa-. :.
correspondents 30 not request :the
nrivileee of accompanying the BRIDE
anil bridegroom on their honeymoon
and it is improbable that any re-
representatives. of the press Will DC
norm;tted to witness the ceremony.
This attitude is taken by the fresl-
1on+ ,nd Mrs. Gait, on the ground
that the wedding is purely a private
family affair, and that no 1urthef
o.co,nt Of it is necessary than that
which might be written concernlh.:
= wedding in any private household
It is nok. expected that approx
matcly 81 or l2s guests will be pres
Ont These will include only the mem
hers of the. immediate. Wilson Gait
and Boiling families, with perhaps
ono or two others who have intimate
nersonal relations with either the
president or Mrs. Gait.
The ceremony, as already an
nounced, will be performed by the
Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rector OF
St. Marsaret's Episcopal Church: 1t
is not now expected that either the
President, or Mrs. Gait will: be; at
tended. The nuptials will be, follow
cd by a.brief reception. Immediately
afterwarf the bridal couple will leave
the Calf home and will drive by
motor to the Presidents private car
wherever that may be.
No announcement is Forthcoming
sc TO the wedding cake, but this. 1t
is said, was provided for some time
AFRO and will be beautifully designed
Wedding gifts continue to arrive
1T the Gait home: Several hundred
presents have been received, but the
names Of those presenting them, nike
! other details of the wedding, have
/, been withheld.
Woodrow Wilson is the third
President to be married during ms
term of office. President Tyler was
N the first and President Cleveland the
other. Mr.. Tyler, like Mr.. Wilson
was left a widower during his term
Two years later, in 1874 in New
York city, he was married to mss
Julia Gardiner, who then presided
ut the White House Functions during
the last year Of her husbands tern
of office. 4
4 Grover Eleveland's marriage Ito
Miss Frances Folsom took place il
the Blue Room Of the EXecutiv,
Mansion. It was. comparatively
private affair, for the invited guest
\ included only the Cabinet member;
their wives and a few friends an
! relatives of the couple. SO =
Presidents Wilson's wedding is tn
third in hiis family since he took o:
flee. The first; White House .weddin
of his term was that of his secor