The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
Date Set for December IS at Home of Brides
 Mother
GUESTS CONFINED
 TO FAMILY CIRCLES
Ceremony Will Take Place in Draw ing Room Where an Altar Will
 Be Erected-Mrs. Maury of Anniston to Be Present

Washington, December 4.-(Spec1a4.) ) Regarding the plans for the President's honeymoon. the White House announces nothing. In a formal statement issued today, however, the date of the wedding of the President and Mrs. Norman IL Gait was declared to be December 1S
 The ceremony will be performed at the residence of Mrs. Boiling, the mother oi the future mistress of the White House and will be witnessed solely by relatives of the President and Mrs. Gait.
 From Alabama there arrived today Mrs. Matthew Maurey, sister of Mrs Gait. Mrs. Maurey lives in Anniston, and it is regarded as probable that in the future the President and his wife will frequently visit that city.
 Mrs. Maurey presented Mrs. Gait with . hat which was made in Anniston. Ii will become 6 part of the wedding trousseau.
 Extreme simplicity will be observed at tho wedding of President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait. which the White House announced today will be solemn tzed December IS, two weeks from to- oayt ht sIHS nOIh6 Ol 1lIb. 1Ahe hOAO' The arrangements virtually have been completed.
 The President will have no best man at the wedding and Mrs. Gait will not formally select a maid of honor, al- though one of her sisters, probably Miss Bertha Boiling of this city, will escort her during the ceremony.
 The announcement at the White House that only members of the two families and the Presidents immediate family would attend the wedding and that nc formal invitations would be issued sur prised official Washington. It had been expected that at least few of the Presi- dents friends would be invited.
 The Rev. Herbert Scott Smith. rector of St. Margaret's Protestant Episcopal church here, which Mrs. Gait has at- tended in recent months, has been ten tatively selected as the officiating clergy man, although 1t is possible that the Rev Sylvester Beach. pastor of the Presi- dents church in Princeton, may assist The President is a Presbyterian.
 The President and Mrs. Galt spent prac. t.cally the entire day together discussing final arrangements for the wedding They played golf together this morning and went for an automobile ride this aft ernoon.
 The wedding ceremony will be held 1T the drawing room of Mrs Galt's home where temporary altar will be erected The ceremony will be an evening affair There will be no large reception after wards, but official Washington will have an opportunity to extend personal con gratulations at the Pan-American recep tion, the first of the formal social af fairs of the White House social season which will be held January z.
 Plans for the honeymoon trip arc beint kept secret, but it is known they plaI to leave Washington shortly after the ceremony. The Mayf1ower, the Presi- dents yacht, is being kept here and fl has been reported that at least a part o, ihe trip may be made on water.
 In spite of intimations that the Presi dent and Mrs. Gait did not expect man, wedding presents a number of official. and close friends gre planning to sent them gifts.