The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-06-29
JUVENILE WEDDING
DELIGHTFUL AFFAIR
Tots of Centre Congregational Sunday
School Entertain for Benefit of
Church Building Fund.

No really and truly bridal party
could have a better day or a prettier
setting or nearly so ideal a ceremony
as were provided yesterday afternoon
on the lawn at Lindenhurst under the
big trees for the " wedding of Tom
Thumb and Dorothy Dainty, for the
benefit of the church building fund.
This was the particular function of
the beginners department of the
Centre Congregational Sunday school,
staged by Mrs. w. T. Haigh, the super
intendcnt, and the teachers of that de-
partmcnt. From first to last it lacked
nothing to make it realistic-absolute
ly nothing from the bridal veil and the
ministerial gown to the wedding
breakfast for the bridal party.
The wedding ceremony itself, word
ed b. Mrs. G. c. Fits, appealed strong
ly to some of the older ones present,
who have had experience with the
stereotyped form, as delightful. 1t
was brief and very elastic and GER
tainlv fitted the occasion, if it would
not fit the really and truly ones.
Seats were arranged in a semi-circle
facing the platform, with a center aisle
for tho use of the bridal procession.
| The platform, decorated with ferns,
daisies and buttercups, was banked at
the rear to conceal cottage organ
which served, as one has many times
before, as the medium for sending
| forth the familiar notes of the Lohen-
| grin bridal chorus and the wedding
march Of Mendlessohn.
/ 1t was shortly after 4 O'Clock when
the guests in costume, Evelyn Haynes,
Eleanor Adams, Margaret Duncan and
Elizabeth Waterman, were escorted to
their seats by, the ushers, Harold
Miner, Arthur Miner, Edwin Pratt and
Clayton O'Gilvie, each of whom wore
a dress suit Jean Arnold, 'mothei
of the BRIDE was next escorted tc
her seat and, after the proper interva
of suspense, there appeared the brida
procession.
Gerald Barrett, Keziah Hamilton
Eva Benson, Leslie Billings, Jane.
|. Averill, Richard Prouty, Mauric,
Davenport and Harriet Waterman
marched down the aisle bearing tw,
daisy chains. They were followed by
the flower children. Helene Sparks an,
Edward Bracket. The bridesmaids. :
| Dorothy Trip, Miriam Fits, Gertrud
Frost and Doris Bragg, entered ca TIL
} arms of the ushers and were followe,
/ ~ III i+i-Aitl- VI HOHbi- I4lILdilttl
Sanders. and the '.bride, = Dori
r Wood, in bridal fnery on the arm 0
e her father Hadley Shumway.
As the bride approached the plat
r form there advanced to meet them. tn
! bridegroom, James Viele, support
ed by his :. best man, Wendell Smith
and the minister in his robe of Of
fee, Clayton Haynes. All of the youn
men wore dress suits and the youn
women wore fnery in keeping with til
/ occasion.
The reading of the ceremony wa
distinctly heard by all present as wer
I the responses, so prompt and vigCrou
n as to cause amusement. Once the rim
e had been placed on the extended fir
) ger of the proper hand and the clio
ing words had been said the audicnc
. acted in a perfectly natural mamie
= breaking into the aisle immediatel
n after the important members of I'll
Il cast had passed out and leaving II
! guests and members of I'll
! bride s. family stranded at the fror
!" of the auditorium - Thus to ii
e very end was the similarity to n real
! and truly wedding maintained.