The Washington herald., 1919-03-25

of st. Matthews Church. Trailing
Southern smilax veiled the mirrors.
and palms, huge, gracely ferns and
quantities of white flowers banked
the end OF the room where the bridal
party stood during the service. Stand
ards of white flowers formed an aisle
through which the bride, on the arm
of her father, who gave her In mar
riage, made her entrance.
She made an unusually lovely pic
| ture in her bridal gown of soft duchess
satin combined with tulle and lovely
duchess lace. The short straight slip
Of the satin was heightened by a hem
OF tulle headed with pearls. The
bodice, which was fashioned of the
lovely lace, had a becoming round
decoltage and came well down over
| her hips. Below was a graceful side
draperp of tulle beaded in pearls.
Panels of tulle heavily embroidered
in crystal and pearls, fell from the
shoulders, forming a deep v to the
waist line. where they were held IN
by a narrow girdle of orange bios
SONS. Clusters of orange blossoms
were also placed on the skirt near
/ the transparent hem.
A court train of satin, cut quite
narrow and lined with finely shirred
chiffon, completed a graceful and he
coming costume, and with Il the bride
wore a long veil of tulle, simply ar
ranged and caught to her hair with
a chaplet OF orange blossoms. She
carried a sheaf Of Easter lilies and
! gardenias.
Sonora de Rojo, sister of the bride
and wife of the counselor of the Mex
/ lean Embassy. was the nlatron Of
honor. Her frock was of pale green
Gros de Londres made with a tight
| fitting bodice and a skirt which was
puffed out full over the hips and mar
rowed down to the new slim line about
the ankles. The only trimming was
wreath OF old blue and flesh colored
ribbon flowers caught to the drapery.
/ and there were short sleeves of green
| chiffon finished with fiounces. She
wore pale green slippers and hose
and a becoming picture hat of green
chiffon faced with flesh color and
trimmed with a plume of soft French
blue placed across the crown. She
carried OpheIla roses.
Lieut.. Francisconi. of the royal
italian army. who was to have been
best man for Lieut.. Coppola, was
ordered back to Europe a few days
ago. and was represented by Signor
Tosi. of New Pork.
Senior Rafael Nieto. Mexico's act
ing minister Of finance, who is now
in New York. was one of the wit
\ nesses for the bride, but was rep
resented by proxy, as he is at
| tending a meeting of international
| Importance today. DR.. Alfred Cat
uregIi. Mexican financial agent in
New York and a close friend of the
Mexican Ambassador. took his
place. The other witnesses, Gen.
Juan Barragan. President Car
ranza's Chief of Staff. and former
/ secretary of foreign relations, and
Gen. Candido Aguilar. were also
| represented by proxies. Senior
Felipe del Hovo took the place of
General Barragan and Gen. Emilio
Salina, Mexican consul general in
New York. stood for Gen. Aguflar.
The wedding music was unusual
ly lovely, strains from an organ, es-
pecially installed for the occasion.
giving richness to the music of a
string orchestra and the lovely So
prano voice which sang Gounod' s
Ave Maria" at the close of the
ceremony.
After the interesting ceremony,
which followed Spanish customs, a
reception and buffet breakfast was
held, the bridal party taking their
places in the drawing room to re-
ceive the guests. Sonora de Bonillas
received with them, wearing hand
some trained gown of mauve chif-
fon. beaded in self color and elab-
orateIy trimmed with beautiful old
point applique lace. She wore a
large black tulle hat trimmed with