New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
Weddings Crowd Calendar
OF Society as Lent Nears
Saturday, Most Popular Bridal Day, Is Selected by
Miss Blossom Gray, Miss Fanny Ford, Miss Anne
Sherman and Miss Mary Bartlett for Nuptials

AZ Lent nsars weddings, like dances,
begin to crowd the few Intervening
days and invitations for eight this
week have been received. Saturday Is
tho most popular day Of all with the
girls to be married and that day has
been chosen by Miss Blossom Gray for
her marriage to Cameron ODay Mac
pherson; Miss Fanny Taliaferro Ford,
who will become the bride of Shipley
Thomas; Miss Anne Sherman, who will
be married to William Remsen. and
Miss Mary Garrett Bartlett, who will
wed Robert Alexander Gibney. Miss
Henrietta 8. Ward and Roland B. Pea
cock will be married on Tuesday. Miss
Margaret Ruhe and Henry Charles
Weltzion on Wednesday. Miss Barbara
NJ. Shedd to Thomas Chandler Way-
land and Miss Dorothy Vassar Baker
to John W. Stafford on Thursday.
Miss Fanny Taliaferro Ford, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Richards
Ford. Of % West Tenth Street. will be
married to Shipley Thomas, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John D. Thomas, Of German
town, Pa, at noon, Saturday, February
IA, in the Church of the Transfgura-
tion. The ceremony will be followed
Mrs. Ford. Miss Helen Ford will be
her sisters maid of honor and the
bridesmaids will be Miss Maiorie
Baldwin, Miss Janet Brewer and Miss
Emily Cobb, of New York: Miss Eme-
lyn Shlpley, Of Penllyn, Pa; Miss Julia
Duryea Sprigg, of Charlottesville, Va.
and Miss Elizabeth Mills, of Buffalo.
Mr. Thomas will have for his ushers
his brother, Edward Thomas; Richard
IA: Breed, of Philadelphia; Elton S.
Mayland, Of Waterbury. Conn; Philip
II. English, of New Haven; Roderick
kellet, of Philadelphia, and Lindsay
Montgomery Donaldson, Major /. S.
Frazier and Major R. M. Yonell, of the
2oth Infantry. The best man will be
Lieutenant Colonel Barnwell r. Legge,
OF the 26th Division, who with MIR.
lhomas were the only two officers who
served continuously throughout every
engagement with that division.
Mr.. Thomas is Yale graduate, class
10, and served twenty months overseas
as lieutenant and captain.
The marriage Of Miss Dorothy Vassar
Baker. daughter of Mrs. E. Vassar
Baker. of Ballston Spa, N. Y, to John
W. Stafford, OF this city, will take
place on Thursday in the chapel Of St.
Bartholomew's Church. Robert X,
Stafford will serve as his brothers best
man and the ushers will be Vladimir
behr, Philip Kaufman, Harold Schall
and Mortimer Cobb. Miss Baker is g
niece of Mrs. Edward H. Hough, Of
New York and Cedarhurst. L. l.. and q
grandniece of the founder of Vassar
college, Mr.. Stafford is q son, by a
former marriage. of Mrs. J. Sanford
Murphey.
The marriage of Miss Barbara NJ.
Shedd, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
NJ Shedd. to Thomas Chandler Way
land, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Way
land, also will take place Thursday in
the Brick Presbyterian Church. The
Countess Salm- Hoog will be
the matron of honor and the brides
maids will be Miss Sylvia Holt Miss
Margaret Geer, Miss Priscilla Husged,
Miss Sarah Sturges and Miss Annette
Davis, Elton S. Wayland viii serve as
his brothers best man, and the ushers
will be w G. Thayer Shedd. brother Of
the bride; Lincoln lsham, Shirley
Thomas and James W Hustled jr. The
ceremony will be followed by a recep-
tion at the Cosmopolitan Club
Miss Kathryn Thornton Motley.
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thornton n
Motley, of 375 Park Avenue. wnose
marriage to Matthew Comstock jenkins
will take place February 2l in the
chantry Of st. Thomas's Church, will
and Miss Angela Roberts, Of Utica
Miss Dorothy Bolton, Of Troy: Miss
Marion L. Haley, Miss vireinIs
Sterry. Miss Emma Peabody and Miss
Margaret Starr. of this city. STANLEY
Malcolm Dunn, of Woonsocket, r. /
will be the best man, and the uaherr