The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-27
Local Physician
 Married Today

LOOK place lIllS morning dI ; oClOCk at St. Lawrence Church In New Bedford when Miss Alice Althea Douglas, daughter of MT. and Mrs Frederick George Douglas of Camp bell street, New Bedford, became the bride of pr. Frederick Charles LaBrecque of this city, son of Ed ward L. LaBrecque and the late Mrs. LaBrecque of Avon street. Taunton, Mass. Rev. John F. Nc Keon, P. R., off1ciated at the cere- mony and the nuptial high mass was sung by Rev. James McDermott
 s. J., of ShadoWbrook, cousin of the
 bride. The church was decorated
 with blue iris and white snapdrag- onS and a musical program was rendered with Liturgical singing by a selected choir and John T. Curry Jr., presiding at the organ. Mrs John Gilmore rendered Shubert's Ave Maria"
 The bride was given in marriage by her father and had as her maid of honor her sister, Miss Martha A. Douglas of New Bedford. The bridesmaids were: Mrs. Edward L Ryan and Miss Mary E. Douglas of New Bedford, sisters of the bride Leonard LaBrecque of Taunton Mass, attended his brother as best man and the usherS were: Edward L. Ryan of New Bedford. brother in-laW of the bride, Dr. Edmund l. Carey of Quincy, Mass, Dr. Frank O. Wood of Hartford, and pr. Don- aid J. McCrann of Bloomfield, Conn. the latter three all felloW-reSidents of the bridegroom at Boston City Hospital, and Dr. Carey was also classmate of the bridegroom at Bos- ton College and Tufts College Med- ical School.
 The bride wore gown of white slipper satin fashioned with mid riff WaiStline, sweetheart neckline and a full skirt terminating in long train. Her long veil of tllle fell gracefully from a heart-shaped tiara embroidered with pearls and she carried white prayer book marked with gardenias and shoWered with lilies of the valley. The maid of honor's frock was a Princess mode gown with panels of cornf1oWer blue marquisette and white angel lace trimmed with a white bow at the neck with long StreamerS anG' hay ing puffed sleeves. Her tiara was fashioned similar to the brides in B cornfower blue shade. Blue del phinium and baby's breath com prised her arm bouquet.
 Attired alike, the bridesmaids wore gowns entirely of cornflower blue marqulsette and lace styled in like mode to that of the maid of honor and their tiaras were also in similar style. They carried arm bou- quets of white snapdragons and 
 The dress Of the brides mother was navy sheer, having a jacket and lace bodice and she wore navy accessories and a corsage of white roses, sweet peas and delphinlum.
 A breakfast for seventy-five guests was held at Tabitha Inn i'll Fair haven following the ceremony after which a reception for about two hundred guests was held at the home of the bride.
 Out-of- town guests were in at tendance from Claremont, N. H., Waterbury, Hartford, Boston, Quin- cy, Taunton, Leominster, Mass, and Pawtucket, K. I.
 The couple left on wedding trip to New York Washington and Vir- ginia, the bride wearing beige wool wardrobe suit with teardrop collar of beige fox and dubonnet accessor- ies. Upon their return they will take up their residence at l54 Greenwood avenue, in this city after May 18th.
 Mrs. LaBrecque is graduate Of Holy Family High School in New Bedford and Dr. LaBrecque Is a graduate of Boston College, A. B. ill 193i. and Tufts College Medical School, M. D., in 1885. He is mem Der of the staff of St. Marv's Hos pital and is a practicing physician in this city.