Wallace Hart/Ethel Oliver Wedding, August 1, 1919

L to R: Whit Hart, Wallace Hart, Ethel Oliver, Olive Oliver, Rev. Smith

West Cornwall

THE OLIVER-HART WEDDING

The home of Deacon and Mrs William Oilver was the scene, last Friday, at 3 o’clock, of a quaint pretty wedding, when their eldest daughter, Miss Ethel Louisa Oliver became the wife of Mr Wallace Marion Hart. The entire house was decorated with wild clematis and the bride and groom, attended by Miss Olive Oliver, a sister of the bride, as maid and Mr C. Whittlesey Hart, a brother of the groom, as best man, took their places beneath an arch of the same, where the Rev. Fred Smith of the Second Congregational church, of which both bride and groom are members, performed the ceremony in the presence of about 60 friends who had assembled to express their well wishes for the future welfare of the new household thus founded. The wedding march was rendered by Le Roy Hart, another brother of the groom. The bride was gowned in white silk with veil of tulle and carried white sweet peas. The maid of honor was gowned in pink and carried pink sweet peas. After the wedding breakfast, a very pleasant social time and the usual merry making, the bridal party and pastor drove to the home of Mr Hart, where the ceremony was again performed for the benefit of tbe gloom’s mother who is an invalid and could not be present at.the initial service. The bridal party then returned to the Oliver home where later the happy pair, eluding their too strenuous well-wishers, departed by auto for a two weeks’ trip and upon their return will reside in their new home, newly purchased and refitted. The home is located only a few doors from where the bride has spent her girlhood days. Both the young people are natives of the town and active in all church and public affairs, Miss Oliver having been the church organist for a number of years and Mr Hart is the junior member of the firm of Sturges, Hart & Co., in the village.

Many handsome gifts of money, furniture, pictures, cut-glass and silver attested to the esteem of their friends.