"SUPERB SIMPLICITY."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10060, 4 June 1910, Page 4

"SUPERB SIMPLICITY."

It is amusing to find the New York correspoudent of a leading English paper stating that the dominant note ,

at the marriage of Miss, Marjorie Gould and Mr Anthony J. Drexol, was a "superb simplicity.",? He says the instructions of the bride's parents were that everything savouring of ostentation avoided,, and then proceeds to detail the elaborate fashion in which the much desired superb simplicity was induced to dominate the function. Both the Goulds and the Drexeis are extremely wealthy, and especial interest was taken in this marriage because after a loj-g period of international marriages, a great American heiress was marrying an American. Despite heavy rain, thousands of well-dressed women stood for hours in Fifth Avenue, with no umbrellas, in order to cateha glimpse of the bride. The bridal procession passed down the aisle between two rows of high standards crowned with "beaut? roses" and white lilies to theV.hancel, which was embowered in palms and masses of flower 3. The floral- decorations used in embellishing the church and the Gould cost thousands of pounds. The wedding costumes worn by tha bride and bridesmaiis were "the last word" in fashion, andh represented the highest triumph,of the rnodisteVart. fhers was an enormous assemblage of guests in the church, and of these 600 afterwards attended the reception in the Gould mansion, which had been transformed into a fairyland for tfye occasion. As showing the princely Bcale on which everything was carriedout, it may be mentioned that the wedding cakewas ' distributed to the guests in sflver ! boxes. The wedding cake itself is described as a marvellous creation and represented the pinnacle of the confectioner's skill. It was decorated with four cornucopias releasing flooda of orange blossoms. The bride's father presented her with a furnished mansion, worth £IOO,OOO, besides ' valuable'' jewels, the total value of the wedding gifts being estimated at £400,000. The assemblage, at the wedding ceremony, owing to'its mixture of society ladies and others who, though wealthy, are only on the "outer fringe," is described as i unique in the history of this country of democratic institutions and aristocratic tendencies.