Evening star., 1950-02-05
Additional Details of Milford Haven Wed
ding Ceremony In Society Section.

about 400 persons representative
of Washington and New York So
ciety. About 100 of the guests
came from New York. A crowd of
about 200 formed in front of the
church, some of them climbing to
the base of the statute of John
Witherspoon, a .signer of the Dec
laration of Independence. to see
the bridal couple come out.
The event went off with precise
timing. At 3;45. the bride left the
apartment of her mother. Mrs.
Clark McIlwaine, at ,2029 Con-
necticut avenue in her gown of
dove gray pink to pose. for pic
lures to be transmitted to London
by wireless s1ljir a-la y. p7
She was at the schurch1at $50
and spent 10 chilly minutes in the
right vestibule. The bridegroom
and his best man (Albert Hard
man who had served with him in
the Royal Navy during the war;
had arrived 10 minutes earlier and
had been ushered into a room to
the left.
Just at 4 the organ pealed out
the wedding march from "Lohen-
grin" and the procession started
down the aisle, headed by the
eight ushers.
The bridegroom repeated the
marriage VOWS after DR.. Edward
L. Elson, pastor of the church, in
a firm clear voice. The bride S
responses could hardly be heard
in the front row.
The choir took up the pastors
amen" and at Ais the ceremony
was over. At the vestibule the
couple encountered flood lights
and newsreel cameras.
AS the wedding guests emerged
from the church, photographers
spotted titled persons and asked
them to pose. The former Arch
duke Franz Joseph of Austria and
the Archduchess Martha posed
with Prince Franz Hohenloe.
Other Distinguished Guests.
More wives than husbands at
tended. Among the wives were
4 Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit
ney, Mrs. Millard E. Tydings,
Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge. Mrs.
James j. Wadsworth. Mrs. Stanley
Reed and Mrs. Edward H. Foley,
1jr.
Others who attended included
4Lady Franks, wife of the British
Ambassador (who Is in Engiand)
Ambassador and Mrs. e. N. van
Kleffens of the Netherlands, AM
bassador Fernando Berckemeyer,
of Peru. Don Pablo Merry del Val
of the Spanish Embassy. Count
and Countess Moltke- -HuitfeIdt,
Grover Looming. the Earl and
Countess of Jellicoe, Count Geor-
ges Lasocki. Mr.. and Mrs. William
Fahnestock, Mrs. Andre de Coppet,
Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Ambas-
sador and Mrs. Vassili G.. Dem
dramis of Greece, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Woods Bliss. Capt. Richard
Coleridge of the British Royal
Navy and Mrs. Coleridge, Sir
Frederick and Lady Hoyar- Miller,
Mrs. Henry. Latrobe Roosevelt,
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Mr.. and
Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth. A. Coster
| Schermerhorn and Eric of the
Hotel Mayfower Lounge.
The reception after the cere-
mony taxed the capacity of Mrs
McIlwaine's spacious apartment
and brought such a crowd that II
took the elevators half an hour
to take the guests up. Many OF
them walked to the apartment
which Is on the fifth floor.
Second Marriage for Bride.
/ It was the second marriage for
/ the 26-year- bride, who became
! the Marchioness of Milford Haven
Her first husband was William s.
Simpson, a Marshall Field execu-
tive who lives at Locust Valley
IN. Y. They were divorced last
year. She has the custody of their
22-month-old daughter
The couple plan to sail on the
lie de France from New York Fri
day for a three-week honeymoon
in Switzerland. They will return
later to New York where the mar.
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