Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-01
THE GRAHAM-BOYD
OUTDOOR BRIDAL
Ceremony of This Afternoon
in Old-Fashioned Garden
at Oakleigh

One of the prettiest of June we'd
dings is taking place this afternoon at
"Oakleigh," the Boyd country estate.
near historic PaXtang.
The ceremony, uniting Miss Louisa
Yeomans Boyd, daughter of the late
John Yeomans and Mrs. Eleanor Herr
| Boyd, to John Graham of Philadelphia,
will be performed at o'clock in the
old-fashioned garden near the house,
amid masses of rhododendrons, ferns,
pink ramblers, peonies, iris and Amer
lean Beauty roses. Uttley, who has
charge of the decorations, has used the
same flowers on the porches and
throughout the house with exquisite
effect
The officiating clergymen will be the
Rev. DR.. Lewis Seymour Nudge, pas
tor of the Pine street Presbyterian
Church. this city, and the Rev. Marcus
A. Brownson, of the Tenth Presbyter-
ian Church, Philadelphia. Hertzberg's $
orchestra of Philadelphia, will play
the wedding marches and during the
reception following the service, and
Thomas L. James Of Philadelphia is
catering.
The charming young bride, who will
he given in marriage by her brother
James Boyd, has chosen a wedding
| gown of white satin draped in rare,
old family lace, with tulle veil and
orange blossoms worn by her mother
at her own wedding. She will carry a
bouquet OF orchids, lilies of the valley
and forget-me-nots.
The flower girl, Miss Mary S. Gra-
ham, the bridegrooms sister, will
wear pale blue taffetas over pink, and
carry. basket of forget-me-nots and
midget roses,
The bridesmaids, Miss Julia Mar
shall of Duluth, Mimi, Miss Mary
Schieffelin of New York: Miss Martha
/ Of
Bailey, Miss Mary Mitchell and Miss
Myrvinne Leason of this city, will be
attired in girlish frocks of pink chif-
fon with blue girdles brown tulle
hats, bronze slippers and hose, and
carry blue chip baskets tied with pink
ribbons, filled with snapdragon, pink
and yellow roses and forget-me-nots.
The best man will be Thomas G.. Hirst,
and the ushers include: John Dupuy
Graham, Antony l.. Geyelin. Richard
Tilghman, Alden Lee and Thomas A.
Robinson, all of Philadelphia, and T.
Gardiner Aspinwall of Boston.
In Old Family Carriage
After an extended wedding journey,
Mr.. and Mrs. Graham will be AT
Home" to their friends at Villanova
An interesting feature of the wedding
is that the bride will be driven to the
station in the same family carriage by
the same coachman who drove her
father and mother as they started
away on their own wedding day. The
bride was educated at the Dobbs Fer
ry school and since then has spent
much of her time at Southern Pines.
where her family has winter home.
Her father, the late John Y. Boyd,
was appointed by Governor Edwin S.
Stuart a member of the first Railroad
Commission of this State. Her mater
nal grandfather was the late Andrew
Jackson Herr, widely known member
of the Dauphin county bar, for many
years attorney for the Pennsylvania
railroad and several times a State
senator. Her paternal grandfather,
James Boyd, was a coal magnate, for
many years connected with the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company.
Mr.. Graham, who lived in Harris
burg for a time, was connected with
Antony J.. Geyelin, a freight solicitor
of the Pennsylvania railroad here,
now transferred. He is a son of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter S. Graham, of Gra-
ham, Va, and a grandson of the late
Colonel Thomas Graham, widely
known in Philadelphia and Virginia,
where he was interested in the de-
velopment of coal fields. He is also
related to the Franklin family of Lam
caster, well known in railroad circles,
and is a nephew of Howard S. Gra-
ham, of the firm of Graham & Co, of
Philadelphia, and Mrs. j. Hutchinson
Scott, of New York.
Among the out-of-town guests are:
DIR. and Mrs Barton Hirst, Miss Hirst,
the Messrs. Hirst, Philadelphia; Mr..
and Mrs. Howard Graham, Miss Gra-
ham, Chestnut Hill; John Graham,
John Graham, Jr., Miss Beale, Chest
nut Hill Miss Baker the Messrs. Ba-
ker, Philadelphia; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Clinton Wright, Haverford; Mr.. and
Mrs. John Lewis Wilson, Media, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. James Lewis Twadell,
Miss Twadell, Devon; Dr. and Mrs. a.
G. Thomson, Rodman Wanamaker,
Thomas Wanamaker, Jr., Philadel-
phia; Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Park, Jr.,
Rosemont; Thomas Foote Wentworth,
Strafford; Mrs. T. Hudson Rich, Mrs.
Joseph b. Hutchinson, Philadelphia;
Mrs. Antony Geyelin, Bryn Mawr; Mr..
delphia; Mr. and Mrs. Walter S.
Yeats, st. Davids; Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
A. Potter, Jr., Philadelphia; Mrs. Rol-
lin Wilbur, st. Davids Dr. and Mrs.
Marcus A. Brownson, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
c. F. Bent, Philadelphia; Miss Mar
garet Tenney Haverford; Mr.. and
Mrs William A. Patton, Radnor; the
Misses Myers, st. Davids; Mrs. Hutch
inson Scott, Miss Scott, Edwin s.
Stuart, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. c. Kennedy,
Col. and Mrs. Frederick Reynolds,
Philadelphia; DR.. and Mrs. A. w. Hal
sey, Bayard Rines, Frederick Goodwin,
John Farr. Jr., W. Scott Pyle. Mrs.
William A. Bell New York; Mrs. Will
liam A. Jessop, Cairo. Egypt; Mrs.
u. Wilson, Mrs. Gilbert E. Swope, Miss
Jane Nj. Hays, MELVILLE; Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Breneman, Miss Harriet Nau-
man, Lancaster.