Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1948-01-30
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Miss Gwen Hughes
Weds Henry Barnes
TELEPHONE 1877

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came the bride Of Henry Blue
Barnes Saturday evening at 7:3(
in wedding ceremony at thu
Mount Tabor Baptist church
Rev. Winfrcy Davis, former pas
tor of the bride. performed The
ceremony.
Prio" to the VOWS, Mrs. Fur,
man Fowler, organiSt, rendered
Il program Of nuptial music. The
traditional wedding marches
were used for the proceSSiona
and occasional.
The vows were spoken before
background Of Southern smi'
lax and fern and arrangements
of white gladioIi and white snap
dragons. Lighted white cathe.
dral taperS in seven-branched
candelabra were intersperSed
throughout the setting.
The bride was given in mar
riage by her brother, DR.. Jack
Hughes of Saint Paul, Mimi
The bridegroom had his brother
Benjamin Shields Barnes, Jr.,
of Atlanta. as best man.
Serving as uSherS were Phil
Hughes and Don Hughes, broth
erS. of the bride, William Al
bright Barnes, brother of the
bridegroom, and Lee Porter of
Atlanta and James l.. Roberts
OF Chapel Hill.
The bride wore gown OF
white bridal satin fashioned with
a fitted bodice, marquisette yoke
bordcred with seed pearls, fitted
sleeves ending in points over
the hands and full skirt fall
ing into folds over the hips form
ing panicrs, ending in graceful
train. The fingertip veil OF il
fusion edged with lace fell into
folds from halo or orange
bouquet of gardenias tied with
white satin and maline.
Mrs Willie Brook Webster was
her sisters matron OF honor. Sne
wore an American Beauty cord
ed tafreta dress fashioned with
Sweetheart neckline, tight DO,
dice and full skirt with a small
peplum. She carried an arm
bouquet of carnations and snap
dragons tied with yellow satlr
and maline.
The bridesmaids, Miss Esther
McGougan, Miss Sara Wood OF
Winston-Salem and Mrs: James
l. Roberts of Chapel Hill, wore
dresses identical to that OF the
matron of honor and earned
identical bouquets.
The mother Of the bride wa:
dressed in a formal dress O
aqua crepe fashioned with
drapc back falling from th'
shoulder and ending in d sigh
train. Her flowers were a bou
uuct of orchids.
The mother Of the bridegroom
wore a formal dress Of JeWe
blue crepe designed with an oy
erblouse of sequinS and bugl'
beading which formed . tloWe
motif. She wore an orchl'
| shoulder bouquet.
Immediately alter the cerc
mony, the mother OF the brld
entertained at Il reception. IN.
| Hughes home Was arranged VIII
cut flowers and lighted tapers
The dining table WIS covered
/ with a linen cloth edged witt
! lace and finished with cut Worl
and embroidery. y large punci
bowl with silver candelabri
holding white tapers and an ar
rangement OF flowers complet
ed the decorations.
Mrs. B. f. Hughes, Mrs. 5. L
Jackson, Mrs. Walker Floyd
Mrs. Charles Leggettr and Mrs
Robert M. Garrell assisted II
serving.
For the wedding "Trip th'
bride wore q suit of light blue
q WlNl DldCh dI~INHVl ~ S'iiN
shoulder bouquet Of gardenlas
Mrs. Barnes is the daughte'
of Mrs. David James Hughes o
Tabor City and the late Mr.
Hughes. She attended the Ia
Dor City schools, Saint Mary,
school in Raleigh and was grad
uated from the University o
North Carolina, where she wa
member of the Chi Omeg;
Sorority and Sigma Alpha lot;
music fraternity.
! Mr.. Barnes is the SON Of MI
and Mrs. Benjamin Barnes o
Atlanta. He is a graduate o
Baylor SC h oil. Chattanooga
Tenn. While attending the Cit
adel, Charleston, he entered tn
armed forces, serving thre
years, one of which was sper
! in the European Theatre as