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- Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 9/1/1948
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Berry
of 126 Hyde Park announce that
the marriage of their daughter,
Shirley May, to Nelson J. Wilcox,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilcox,
will be solemnized Saturday at
11 o'clock in the rectory of St.
John's Church.
A wedding breakfast will be given
by the bride's parents at 12 o'clock
In the banquet room of the Park
Hotel, with members of the families
as guests, after which a reception
will be held from 2 to 5
o'clock.
No invitations have been Issued
but friends and relatives are cordially
invited to attend.
ALSO
Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 9/8/1948
White larkspur decorated the mantel in the rectory of St.
John's Church for the ceremony performed Saturday at 11
o'clock by the Rev. Francis E Gardner, uniting in marriage Miss
Shirley M. Berry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Berry. 126
Hyde Park, and Nelson J. Wilcox, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilcox,
2 4 Spalding St.
The bride, given In marriage by
her father, wore an off-white slipper
satin gown fashioned with an
Illusion neckline outlines with seed
pearls at the edge of a satin Bertha.
Seed pearls also trimmed the
long, tight sleeves and the full skirt
fell In soft folds to a circular cathedral
train. Her finger-tip veil
of imported Illusion was caught to
a shirred satin headpiece trimmed
with seed pearls and she carried
a bouquet of ervatamla, bridal
roses and pompons, tied with white
satin streamers.
ATTENDANT WEARS AQUA
Miss Gertrude Claxton, maid of
honor, wore a quaint gown of aqua
satin fashioned like that of the
bride, with matching long, fingerless
gloves. Her Colonial bouquet
was of pink roses and larkspur,
tied with aqua streamers.
Charles Sutton was best man and
ushers were Donald and Robert
Berry, brothers of the bride.
The bride's mother wore a smoke
gray satin dress with wine accessories
and a corsage of salmon
and white rosea. The bridegroom's
mother wore a black and white
dress with black accessories and a
gardenia corsage.
A breakfast was served to 35
guests, followed by a reception to
200 In the Park Hotel. A lacecovered
table held crystal candelabra
and was centered with a fourtiered
wedding cake topped by a
miniature bride and groom. Donald
Berry's Orchestra played during
the reception.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox left by
plane for New York City, the bride
wearing a mink brown faille suit
dress with brown accessories and
a corsage of talisman roses.'They
will make their home at 168 Gooding
Street.
OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS
Out-ot-town wedding guests attended
from Chicago, Buffalo,
Cape Cod, Rochester, Niagara
Falls and Malton, Ont.
The bride Is a graduate of Lockport
High School and St. Joseph's
Business School. The bridegroom,
also a graduate of Lockport High
School, served for two and onehalf
years in the U.S. Navy, with
20 months overseas in the South
Pacific area. He was discharged
with the rating of carpenter's
mate, second class.
Pre-nuptial events for the bride
included a dinner in Sisley's Restaurant
given by the business of-
fice of the Union-Sun and Journal,
where the bride is employed, and
a bathroom shower given by Miss
Gertrude Claxton.
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