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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 10/21/1947
Vases of whits mums and candelabra
decorated the altar of
the Grace Evangelical Lutheran
Church at 7:30 Friday, October
17, for the marriage of Miss Dorothy
Helen Meisner, daughter of
Mrs. Herman J. Meisner and the
late Mr. Meisner of Zimmerman
street, to Harry Evan Flynn, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Flynn
of Bennett St. The Rev. Hermann
B. Miller officiated.
Preceding and during the ceremony.
Miss Lois Helwig played
appropriate organ music and accompanied
Miss Joan Flynn, sisler
of the bridegroom who sang
"Through the Years" and "The
Lord's Prayer".
The bride's gown of moire taffeta,
was fashioned with a bertha
of chantilly lace; with the same
lace forming a panel of ruffles
to the hemline fo the very full
skirt. The waist was basque fitted
and the long tight sleeves
came to points over the hands.
Her veil of imported illusion fell
from a tiara of seed pearls and
extended beyond the edge of the
circular chape! length train. She
carried a cascade bouquet of gardenias
and sprays of geraniumivy.
Miss Norma Meisner, sister of
the bride, was maid of honor .and
the bridesmaid was Miss Peari
Heiman. Their gowns, made alike,
were of royal blue moire, fashioned
with off-shoulder necklines
and full bouffant skirts
with short trains. They carried
muffs of white maline adorned
with a spray of bronze mums and
geranium ivy leaves. Half wreaths
of mums and ivy were worn
across the top of their coiffures.
The flower girl, Lois Ann
Schreiber wore a floor length
gown fashioned of the same ma-
terlal as that of the bride. She
also carried a white maline muff
and wore a wreath of bronze
mums.
David Holmden attended the
bridegroom and the ushers were
Hchard Chapman and Robert
Chapman.
Mrs. Meisner wore a navy
crepe dress with palamino accessories
and a corsage of glamelias.
Mrs. Flynn chose a cinnamon
brown crepe dress with dark
brown accessories. Her corsage
was of gardenias. The paternal
grandmother of the bride was
gowned in powder blue and wore
a glamelia corsage.
A reception followed the ceremony
in the home of the bride
where refreshments were served
from a -table covered with a
cloth of Italian embroidery and
cutwork with Venetian lace insets.
A tiered wedding cake topped
with gladioli bells formed
the centerpiece.
Out of town guests were present
from Chicago, Toronto, St.
Catharines, Orillia, Niagara Falls,
Buffalo, Akron, Dunkirk and
Wilmington, Del.
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