Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1899 — Attends the Quaker Wedding. [ARTICLE]

Attends the Quaker Wedding.

A recent Chicago visitor to the East writes thus descriptively of a Quaker

nuptial ceremony he had the privilege of attending: “At a Quaker wedding last week, where there were no display, decorations, maids or groomsmen, the air seemed charged with joy. After a silence of several minutes the guests arose and the bridegroom taking the hand of the btjide said: ‘ln the divine presence and before this assembly I take Patience B to be my wife, promising to be to her a faithful and affectionate husband until death shall separate us.’ The bride responded: ‘I take thee. John J ,tobe my husband, promising to be a faithful and affectlona‘te wife until death shall separate us.’ A prayer was made, the bridegroom ki&ped tbe bride and after congratulations had been said all repaired to the dining-room, where the breakfast was spread. The table was set with the family silver and china, which had come from England with the great-grandfather of the bride, and there was a single rose at each corner. After the breakfast tbe entire party ac companied the happy pair across the meadow to their new home and were shown the gifts of loving friends. One of the guests was heard to say as she started homeward: ‘What is the use of all the fuss and worry attendant upon a moderately elaborate wedding, when one can have such a sweet time as that was without them ?’ ’’