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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 7/3/1937
Wednesday at noon at the First
Presbyterian church on Broad
street, Miss Florence J. Phillips,
daughter of Captain and Mrs.
James J. Phillips of 16 Elmwood
Park, was married to Mr Howard
E. Collins, son of Mr. and
Mrs John Collins of Silvercreek,
N. Y., formerly of Tonawanda,
the Rev. Wesley Baker officiating
using the ring ceremony. The
bride was escorted to the altar
by her uncle, Mr. Lloyd Brassaw,
of Buffalo.
The church was beautifully
decorated with Madonna lilies,
roses and delphiniums, and white
candles. The pews for the relatives
were marked off by white
ribbons tied about sprigs of
syringas.
Preceding the ceremony, Mrs.
George Homeyer sang "I Love
You Truly." For the processional
Miss Erma Meyers at the
organ played Lohengrin's Wedding
March, and for the recessionaL
Mendelssohn's Wtedding
March.
The bride was dressed in a
white dotted Swiss gown made
with short puffed sleeves, long
full skirt and fitted waist. Her
headpiece was a juliet cap of
white flowers. She wore long
lace mitts on her hands and carried
a shower bouquet Qf gardenias,
lilies of the valley and
gypsophelia.
Miss Margaret E. Phillips, sister
of the 'bride, was maid of
honor. She wore a peach colored
dress made like the bride's
and lace mitts and a wreath of
white flowers in her hair. She
carried a bouquet of Talisman
roses, blue bachelor buttons and
gypsophelia.
Miss June L. Phillips, another
sister of the bride, was bride's
maid, wearing a light blue dress
made like the bride's, and carrying
a bouquet similar to the maid
of honor. She also wore a wreath
of flowers in her hair and long
lace mitts.
William Monroe of Buff alo, was
best man and Howard B. Phillips,
brother of the bride, was the
groom's other attendant.
The bride's mother wore dark
blue lace and the groom's mother
pink silk. Each wore a corsage
of gardenias, sweet peas and
gypsophelia. Mrs. John Brassaw
the bride's grandmother, wore
black chiffon embroidered with
white flowers.
After the ceremony, a reception
was given at Mrs. Cloch's
tea room, where covers were
laid for nineteen at a "T" shaped
table at the head of which was
a large wedding cake- The guests
included Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Brassaw and children, Miss Albert
Milani, Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Fetes and son, Miss William
Monroe, all of Buffalo; Mrs. T.
Jones and daughter, Mildred, of
Scranton, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Collins
have left on a trip through
the Eastern states and Canada
and will be at home at Parkside
Drive in Silvercreek, on
July 13th.
Those who entertained for Miss
Phillips were: Mrs. Albert Milani,
Mrs. John Collins, Mrs.
Louis Fetes, Mrs. Lloyd Brassaw,
teachers of Fletcher Street
school, officers of Sirius Chapter
No. 301, Eastern Star and
Kings Daughters of the First
Presbyterian church.
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