Word: bride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kirkpatrick Este Bruce, 28, and Ailsa Mellon, 24. Three days later the marriage was celebrated in Bethlehem chapel, the completed part of the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Washington. Only about 200 relatives, high officials and official families were present. Twenty ushers, including Paul Mellon, the bride's brother, Richard K. Mellon, Albert C. Bruce, Richard F. Cleveland (son of the late President), assisted by six young experts on precedence from the Treasury and State Departments, took the guests to their seats. The President and his wife had one of the front pews. Mrs. Coolidge wore...
...slender Secretary of the Treasury came the bride. Her entire gown was of point d'Angleterre over cream satin, with a court train of the same lace. Her veil was of tulle with a circlet of pearls about the brow and held in place by a spray of orange blossoms on each side. She wore long sleeves, and her dress came within ten inches of the floor. Her bouquet was voluminous with white orchids and lilies of the valley. She wore a string of pearls...
...whither 4,000 guests had been bidden to the reception. About half the number came. The rooms were bowers of flowers?pink hydrangeas, pink roses, larkspur, peonies, ferns, spruce. Disjecta membra of the Marine Band, in three sections of the building, played the wedding march from Tannhauser, as the bride and bridegroom entered and crossed the Aztec Garden and passed the reflecting pool on a carpet of scarlet velvet...
...black chiffon and lace over a white chiffon slip faced with pagoda blue, received the guests, President and Mrs. Coolidge first. The entire Cabinet, the entire Supreme Court, a few Senators and Representatives, many diplomats, the royalty from Sweden, many friends, were in line. Mrs. Harvey Arthur Lee, the bride's mother, however, was not present. Mrs. Dawes was present, but the Vice President could not leave the Senate...
...BRIDE OF THE LAMB?Alice Brady giving a turbulent and true picture of a small town wife who mixed sex and religion with unfortunate results...