The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-10-29
MARGARET DRAPER BECOMES
WAR BRIDE.

most brilliant international mar
riage in Washington for many years
that of Miss Margaret Draper,
daughter of the later General VIII
liam Franklin Draper, multi-rnillion
sire, and one time United States am
bassador to Italy, and Prince Andrea
Boncompagnf. of Rome-took place
Friday at the Draper residence, at
Connecticut avenue and K street,
Northwest. Another American heiress
was transformed into an Italian
princess; another American fortune
was drafted into the service of .Eu-
ropean aristocracy.
The guests assembled. in the fam
Gus tapestried ballroom of the ORA
per residence. The great organ
which had been installed behind a |
sort Of vine-twined lattice in the |
southeast corner of the room swung
from the soft improvisations which |
filled the air with melody into the1
opening bars of the great wedding
march, and all eyes turned upon the |
state procession of church-men max
ing its way to the wonderful white |
altar near the grand stairway.
Down the great stairway, through !
the white columned foyer connecting
the drawing room with the ball room,
came the little wedding party, the
two little bridesmaids, Minna and
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daughters of her half sister, Mrs.
Montgomery Blair-the maid of hon
or, Eudora Glover, daughter of Adj
miral and Mrs. Richardson Clover,
who has been one of Margaret ORA
per's lifelong girl friends, and fin
ally, leaning on the arm of William
King Richardson, of Boston, who was
her guardian and is trustee of her
estate, Margaret Draper, a bridal
vision of filmy whiteness,s who, when
she passed through that doorway,
was transformed from an American
girl to an Italian princess.
Margaret Draper had always said
! that she hoped when her time came
/ she would be "just the bridiest bride
! that ever happened" And she was.
Her gown was beautiful, soft,
white satin, almost completely yelled
/ in rare old lace and made filny with
tulle. The lace belonged to the brides
! maternal grandmother, Margaret
/ Preston, for whom she was named
and it had been part of her mothers
/ Hxs1 Il L II.
completely yelled in it, and beauti
| full cape of it fell over the court train
of cloth of silver hanging from the
shoulders. At the bottom of the
train was another decoration of her
lace caught here and there with nat
ural orange blossoms.
Her tulle veil, worn over her face,
was held in place by sprays OF nat
ural orange blossoms and her bou-
quet was Of white orchids and orange
blossoms and few lilies of the val
! ley. 1t was not until after the cere-
mony, when the veil was thrown back
that her friends were able to see just
which of the wonderful Draper jew
els she saw fit to wear on this ''the
birthday of her life" Then is was
seen that she had chosen just two
| splendid pieces-the beautiful neck
lace of pearls which her father had
been collecting for her at her birth
and which he had given her for her
debut only a short time before his
death, and a marvellous ornament of
diamonds--a great butterfly with
dewdrops of diamonds dripping from
its wings-which her mother recent
ly, had made for her in New York and
i which covered The front Other bod
ice.
| The diamond coronet, part of the
Boncompagni family jewels, which
was one of the princes gifts to her
and which she had at first planned
to wear to hold her veil, and then
planned not to since it was believed
that it could not, considering the un-
certainty Of the high seas, be
brought over safely, she did not wear.
But it has really arrived, and to-
days bride did wear it that night,
when her mother gave a final dinner
for the bridal party.
AS for the fine old Draper resi-
dence, never in its long career as a
scene of brilliant hospitality had il
been so wonderfully decorated as il
was for this occasion. The entire
house was smothered in American
beauty roses, and white chrysanthe-
NUNS against a background OF
greenery-red, white and green, the
Italian colors everywhere.
CELEBRATE SILVER IA