Evening star., 1945-04-29

Sign EDWARD PaySOn Blanchard, jr
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Blanchard of
Old Orchard Park, Fairfield, Conn.
The Rev. DR.. J. Hillman Hollister
officiated at the 6 o'clock ceremony
which was followed by reception
at Wardman Park Hotel. The
bridegroom's brother, Mr.. Dana
Blanchard, student at Bard Music
School in Avondale on the Hudson
played the nuptial music and &C
, companied Mr.. J. Horace Smithey,
the soloiSt.
In keeping with the all-White color
scheme for the wedding, white flow
erS were used to decorate the church
and they were arranged against
/ background of palms and ferns.
The bride, who was given in mar
riage by her father, wore a white
marquisette gown and her attend
/ ants also wore white. Her flngertip
veil was held by spray of orange
/ blossoms, and she carried an arm
bouquet of gardenias and lilies of
| the valley.
! Miss Betty Ann Hurley of Chevy
/ Chase was the maid Of honor and
Miss Dorothy Lott of Winter Park.
! Fla, and Miss Lois Ely were the
bridesmaids. All wore marquisette
/ gowns. Miss Hurley carried a bou-
quet Of sWeetpeas with a lavender
orchid center and wore a matching
headdress. The other attendants
carried nosegayS of spring flowers
which matched those i'll their hair.
! Mr.. Ralph Blackburn of Fairfield
was best man and Ensigns Philip
H. Smith, Brodie Gregory, Louis
! Arthur and Robert Booth of the
Navy Reserve on duty in Atlantic
City, were the ushers
| The bride attended Rollins Col
lege and Ensign Blanchard at
| tended Fairfield Country Day School.
Choate School in Wallingford, Conn,
and Brown University, where he was
member of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps before his enlist
ment.
The couple will reside temporarily
in Atlantic City.
The Bruton-Parish Church In
Williamsburg, the church which was
/ part of Mr. John D. Rockefellers
restoration plan in that historic
place, was the scene of the wedding
yesterday of Miss Cordelia Anne
Brlnton and Mr.. Roswell Miller III
Magnolia foliage, palms and Easter
lilies decorated the Colonial editice,
and the clergYmen who officiated at
the o'clock ceremony were the Rev.
DR.. j. H. Lloyd of Westover Parish,
Va; the Rev. Chalmers Holbrook of
the Federated Church of Millbrook.
| N. Y, and the Rev. Francis Craig
hull, rector of Bruton-Parish.
The bride, who is the daughter of
Col. and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison
Brlnton, was given in marriage bv
her father. She wore the wedding
gown OF her grandmother. Mrs. A. c.
Morck of Oil City, Pa, of ivory MORE
with rose point lace. Her Mary
Stuart cap of rose point lace fell
from a'tulle veil and she carried an
old-fashioned bouquet of white
orchids and stephanotis,
Miss Ann Adriance of Englewood,
N. j., the former home of the bride.
was her maid of honor, and the
other attendants were Miss Bette
Hall of Washington, Miss Betty
Stoetzer of Fairmont, w. Va; Miss
Frances BriScoe of Miami. the
Misses Barbara and Margaret Mil
Ter, sisters of the bridegroom, and
Mrs. w. M. Brinton, sister-in-law
of the bride.
Miss Adrlance wore a pale yellow
marquisette gown and the other at
tendants wore pale green. They
wore large leghorn hats with match
ing streamers and carried colonial
bouquets in pastel colors.
Mr.. Hugh Chaplin, jr., of New
York, served as best man and the
ushers were Mr. Richard Dudgeon
and Seaman William E Stewart of
New York, Ensign Robert Smith of
Fair Oaks. Calf: Mr.. Lennart
Thorell of Long Island and Mr..
Benjamin H. Brinton, jr., and Mr..
William M. Brinton, brothers of the
bride
reception at Cumberland Farm
in New Kent, Va. home of the bride,
followed the ceremony.
The bride was graduated from
Mount Vernon Seminary and at
tended Finch Junior College, where
she majored in dramatics.
The bridegroom was graduated
from the Hill School in Pottstown,
and was graduated cum laude in
geology from Princeton University.
He is with the United States Geo.
logical Survey in Washington,
where he and his bride will make
their home.
Yeoman Charlotte Parchman.
U. S. N. R., daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Olin B. Parchman of Ammonia
Tex, became the bride last evening
of 1t. Jay A. Sanchez, U. S. M. C. r..
of Los Angeles. Chaplain Robert
E. Fitch officiated at the ceremony
at 8 o'clock in the chapel of the
Naval Receiving Station in Ana
costa.
The bride wore her white service
uniform and carried Colonial
bouquet of white carnations and
roses. She was attended by Yeoman