Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1891 — A SWELL WEDDING. [ARTICLE]

A SWELL WEDDING.

Tlie Presents Represented an Expeudltu: e of *230,000, Over two hundred millions of dollars was represented at Newport, R. 1., on the 14th, at tho wedding of Miss Mabel Marquand, daughter of tbs president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, andMlcnry Galbraith Ward, the Philadelphia lawyer. Tho Astors, the Lorillards, tho Vanderbilts, the Belmonts, together with over six hundred representatives of the cream of fashionable New York and Philadelphia society turned out in force. The presents represented a total expenditure of over a quarter a million dollars. The bride was attired in a gown of white satin, with long train, the skirt and bodice being trimmed with point applique, and iho veil being of tho same costly fabric The bridesmaids wore gowns of pale rosecolored chiffon, and short pink tulle vests, with wreaths of pink and crushed rosespresenting a uulque appearauce.