Word: bridals
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...Bridal...
...years have so many nationally famed bridal pairs as 1929. To the names of Anne and Augustus (Lindbergh) were added Ina and John (Gilbert), presently to be followed by Florence and John (Coolidge). Last week in anticipation of the event Mrs. Coolidge went on a little journey with her daughter-in-law-to-be?whose ivory satin princess wedding gown by Patou, cap of duchesse lace and bouquet of orchids and lilies of the valley were already matters of record. Together they visited New Haven, where John is a clerk in the offices of the New York, New Haven & Hartford...
Married. Marquis Lippi Gerini, of Florence, Italy; to Miss Lillian Madelyn Poli, 26, daughter of Sylvester Z. Poli, immigrant-to-millionaire theatre man;* in New Haven, Conn. Five Yale footballers and Swimmers Helen Meaney and Aileen Riggin were recruited for the bridal party. Firemen and State Troopers assisted New Haven police in controlling the 2,000 guests...
...Svacha takes off bridal veil and replaces it with kika (headdress of married woman). Father of bride gives away his daughter. Mother of bride leads her daughter to groom's parents. Father of bride strikes bride with whip (ancient ritual, symbol of submission) and then passes whip to groom. Girls and bride dance to ancient folk-song-the whole company becomes increasingly intoxicated. All dance a ronde and sing, while a man and his wife from among the guests enter the bed to warm it with the heat of their bodies. Drushka and Svacha bring dishes of food...
...distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars, and shaded with willows and live oaks and linden, were planted with white flowers-Cape jasmines, bridal wreath, white japonica, sweet alyssum and white althea. In the strange white radiance of Alabama moonlight white flowers-Cherokee roses, the night-blooming cereus, moon flowers and honey-suckle-were sweeter than at any other time. . . . "Yet, against all that tenderness of beauty, in spite of an apparent transcendent peace, the intense...