Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1911 — Flowers for the Bride. [ARTICLE]

Flowers for the Bride.

Made bouquets, the flowers used arranged in the most formal manner and set in a rim of lace, are far smarter for the bride than the loose clusters of flowers once carried. Several sorts of flowers are combined to give a feathery look to'the nosegay, ferns, lilies of the valley and gauzy ribbons combining with orchids and bride roses and other white flowers. The narrow ribbons, tied in charming butterfly knots, fall in showers from the bouquet, and with this lovely notion the posies are sometimes set in a, nest of gathered gause ribbon in a wider width. One exquisite bridal bouquet seen recently was massed in the., folds of an old lace handkerchief, whose yellowed border framed it in the needed edge of lace. The handkerchief was a family possession of course. Another heirloom, a shawl of Chinese crape magnificently embroidered, was used as a tunic over a plain satin dress, one corner of this covering the left shoulder of the boalce.