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- Niagara Gazette - 10/8/1937
Dowling - Sullivan
One of the season's loveliest weddings
was solemnized with a nuptial
high mass at 10 o'clock Saturday
morning, October 2, at Sacred
Heart church, when Miss Helen E.
Sullivan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John G. Sullivan, af 2101 North
avenue,was united in marriage to
James P. Dowling, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Dowling, of 162 Sixtyninth
street. The Rev. Francis E.
Crowley officiated
The altar was beautifully decorated
with gladioli and ferns. During
the offertory Miss Josephine
Fell sang the "Ava Maria."
To the strains of Lohengrin's
Wedding March, the bride entered
the "church on the arm of her
father. She was lovely in a gown
of white brocaded cut velvet, fashioned
on princess lines, with a short
train. Long tight-fitting sleeves
ended In points over the wrist.
Tiny covered velvet buttons extended
from the neckline to the
waist Dainty seed pearl clips
adorned the neckline of the dress.
Her beautifully designed full length
veil of Illusion was tulle, with a
deep scalloped border of alencon
lace which fell rrom a tiny cap
with a tiara of fine seed pearls
made coronet style. She carried a
bridal bouquet of white bride's
rosea and, blue for-get-me-nots,
tied with a white satin bow.
Miss Ruth Sullivan, sister of the
bride and maid of honor, was
gowned in aquamarine secretta taffeta
made on princess lines with
graceful ruffled puff sleeves and
border. She wore an off-the-face
pleated tulle halo, with circular
face veil and lace mitts, and carried
a bouquet of pink roses and
baby's breath tied with a silver
bow.
The bridesmaids wore floor-length
Colonial style taffeta gowns. Miss
Helen Argy wearing bridal blue;
Miss Mary Beck, peach; Miss Loretta
Bland, peacock blue, and Miss
Rose Dowling, coral. All wore
matching tiaras of velvet flowers
for headdress and lace mitts. They
carried Colonial bouquets of talisman
roses and bronze chrysanthemums.
Little Miss Margaret Hughes, of
Buffalo, cousin of the groom, was
flower girl and she wore a Colonial
floor-length gown of pink net over
taffeta, with tiny colonial hat of
blue taffeta, tied with a band under
the chin. Long pink lace mitts
and white kid slippers completed
her charming costume. She carried
a tiny Colonial bouquet of
roses and mums.
Leonard Dowling, brother of the
groom, was best man and the ushers
were John Dowling, Jr. brother of
the groom; Roy Goodson, Joseph
Long and Leo Creighton.
The bride's mother chose a gown
of black alpaca crepe trimmed in
white with matching accessories,
and her corsage was of yellow
roses and mums.
The groom's mother wore royal
blue velvet with matching accessories
and her corsage was of
talisman roses and mums.
Immediately following the ceremony,
a wedding breakfast was
served in the dining room of the
Samovar restaurant for the members
of the bridal party and immediate
families. The bride's table,
seating 20, was beautifully decorated
with Ivory candles in crystal
holders and bouquets of roses and
lilies-of-the-valley.
A reception was held at the home
of the bride for relatives and
friends when 150 guests were present.
The bride's table was laid with
Italian lace filet cloth and centered
with a four-tier wedding cake,
flanked by ivory tapers in sliver
holders. The house was gaily decorated
with varicolored gladioli and
ferns.
The bride's gifts to her attendants
were vanity cases.
. Mr. and Mrs. Dowling left on a
motor trip to New York City and
Washington, the bride traveling in
a three-piece ยป mahogany brown
wool suit with racoon fur collar.
Her accessories matched and she
wore a corsage of yellow roses.
The out-of-town guests Included
relatives and friends from Mt. Forest,
Ont,; Lockport, Buffalo, Toronta,
Ont.; Niagara Falls, Ont..
and Alfred. N. Y.
Pre-nuptl&l parties given for the
bride were: A variety shower, by
Mrs. Peter Crotty and Miss Ann
Sullivan; a personal shower, by Mrs.
William Dooher;.a supper party,
by Mrs. John Dowling; a dinner, by
Mrs. John Sullivan; a bathroom
and bedroom shower, given In De
Mart's Cliff Inn, by Miss Dorothy
Williams; a kitchen shower, by Rose
Dowling; a shower, by Miss Ruth
Sullivan, when the bride was presented
with a floor lamp, and a
shower, by Miss Loretta Bland,
when she received an electric Mix-
Master, and a shower, by the Misses
Helen Argy and Mary Beck, when
the guest of honor received a
boudoir chair.
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