Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-24
The Month That AlaOayS Breaks
the Record for Marriages
Promises to Bring More Than
the Usual Array of Orange
Blossoms and White SGtinS.

June. the month of orange blossoms ant
wedding rings. is approaching. In llttl,
while there will be run on the marriage
mart that will beat the records of al
other months of the year. This is the
time that clerks in the marriage licens'
bureau droop exhaustedly from the siren
uous demands made on them. Ministers
grow pale and wan and full cargoes OF
| newlyweds are waited daily northward on
the Honeymoon Express TO Niagara Falls
It's Cupd's halcyon time.
Meanwhile, modlstes are plying their
needles frenziedly in an endeavor TO make
good their promise to have the endless
numbers of white satins, tulles and ba-
tlstes ready in time for the big event
Already the shops have made every
thing subservIent to the June bride and
her countless needs, and the pocketbook
of paterfamillas is getting hatter than
the proverbIal founder, said to be the
fiattest of things.
BY all the laws of reason and logic
the cost of marriage ought TO be one
of the greatest deterrents. But II love
laughs at locksmiths it goes into posi-
tive paroxysms of glee at minister's fees.
trousseaux, outlays and newly-wed house
keeping expenses,
Marriage expensive business? Nom
sense, Two can live cheaper than one.
And all the sepulchral warnings of those
sophisticated beings who have been
through the marriage mill make not the
slightest impression on the blisstully
happy pair over whom Cupid has cast
his fatal spell.
view theirs may be only romance OF
iitney calibre, but who could ever make
Them believe II was not a high-speed,
elght-cylinder affair. made to run world
without end, amen2
with no intention of tearing the veil
of rosy glamour TOO suddenly aside the
FypNING LEDGER, because II knows that
every marriage, be 1t only an elopement 10
some nearby Gretna Green, really does
cost something, VIII consider the expense
of matrimony in all OF its details.
What do trousseaux cost? What does
housekeeping cost2 Wedding ceremonies?
Homogeneous? Wedding rings?
The answers are variable, of course.
1t all depends on the taste and circum-
stance in life of the participants A we'd
ding may be an affair of such inconsplcu-
aus simplicity as to fall way below the
hundred dollar mark. A trousseau may
consist of only new suit supplemented
by refurbished garments of last years
mode. and the bride may be none the less
happy. Two or three days at nearby
seaside resort may constitute the honey
moon without loves young dream being
IN the least shattered.
But, on the other hand the ceremony
may be one of such pomp and splendor
that the expenses when totaled run high
INTO the thousands. Bridesmaids flower
girls. a brilliantly decorated church, hum
lreds OF guests. a wedding breakfast a
honeymoon on a private yacht or car, a
pretentious home afterward, these are the |
things that cost.
In series OF articles. girls who are 10 |
be married economically and girls who /
are 10 be married layishly tell something |
u what they have had TO spend before /
being married. and what they figure upon /
for the expenses OF their future house
hold.
In some cases father Is the minister
II the exehequeF. but in many instances
he girl has TO form q little WAYS and
Means Committee all by herself and
inanee her own wedding.
Each year the number OF girls who buy