A FASHIONABLE MARRIAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 57, 16 June 1910, Page 6

A FASHIONABLE MARRIAGE.

£250,000 IN WEDDING: GIFTS. AX AMERICAN COUPLE. New York, April IS). Miss Marjjorie Gould, the daughter of Mr. Geo. j. Gould, one of America's most prominent railway magnates, and Mr. Anthony J. Drexel, a member of one of the Philadelphia's most exclusive families, were married to-day at St. Bartholomew's Church. The event was one of the most fashionable weddings in New York for some time past in which the bridegroom was not a titled foreigner, and every prominent person in New York or Philadelphia n society was present. I Hundreds of pounds were spent on the floral decoration of the church, which was on a most elaborate scale. Prominent in the decorations were forty-five floral pillars five feet high and surmounted by hundreds of roses. The altar was bank'cd up with 20QO arum lilies. A crowd of over a thousand womeil waited several hours in the drenching rain outside the church to see the bride's ! arrival. When she drove up in a motor ! Oiir many of the enterprising eni defU'Cu'ed to clamber on the car, and so I great was the crush of the mob of \vomen that the police had to charge them in order to clear a pathway for the bride to enter the church. The bride wore a dress of white satin charmeuse, cut long oil flowing Princesse lines, with a chiffon overdress and train, both embroidered with orange blossoms. She wa'S attended by eight bridesmaids, all attired in pink and wearing tiny chatelaine watches given to them by the bride at a little luncheon which preceded the wedding ceremony. Viscount Maidstone, who in June is to marry the bridegroom's sister Margaret in London, was one of the ushers at the reception which followed at the residence of the bride's father. _ The young couple have simply been deluged with wedding presents, which in costliness are declared [■'. rival anything of the kind seen in recent years. Their total value is plaod at over £250,009. The wedding-cake was distributed in silver boxes costing i'soo.