Ferns, Flowers And Golden Glow

Graced the Wedding of Miss Clara McOmber

Nuptials Celebrated at Home of Bride's Mother - Many Friends and Relatives Present

Tuesday night there occurred one of the most charming weddings of the season, when Miss Clara McOmber, of our city, was married to Mr. Alien Gurney Mills, of Chicago, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Lucy McOmber, 408 Church street.

The house was beautifully decorated with ferns and flowers. The hall was a mass of gold, the bannister being decorated with golden glow and golden rod. In the parlor an altar had been formed with an overhanging canopy of vines. The fireplace was a bank of ferns and sweet peas. The floral rations of the back parlor and library were asters and nasturtiums.

The door was opened by Master Jamie Beal and the guests were received informally in the parlor by the mother and young friends of the bride.

Promptly at 7:30 o'clock the opening strains of the Lohengrin Wedding March, played by Miss Marion Smith, announced the approach of the bridal party. Two young ladies, Miss Helen St. John of Ann Arbor, and Miss Mabelle Halleck of Detroit, carried the ribbons forming an aisle through which the rest of the bridal party passed to the altar. Behind the ribbon girls came little Loretta Beal hearing the ring on a floral tray. She was followed by the maid of honor, sister of the bride, Miss Anabel McOmber, in a gown of pale green silk mull with a dresden figure, carrying a shower bouquet of pink sweet peas. Last came the bride, beautifully gowned in white batiste over white silk, carrying a bridal bouquet of white sweet peas. The bride was met at the altar by the groom, attended by his best man, Mr. Francis Taylor, of Chicago.  The beautiful Episcopal wedding service performed by the Rev. Francis, also of Chicago, a close friend of the groom, was very impressive.

After the congratulations of the friends had been tendered to Mr. and Mrs. Mills, the mistress of ceremonies, Miss Estelle Jenney, directed the guests to the dining room, where a dainty luncheon over by Mrs. Rice Beal and Mrs. James Prentiss were uniquely decorated in green and white, the color scheme being carried out by daisy chains, ribbons and ferns.  Those who served were the Misses Flagg, Pearl Jenney, Cody, St. John, Weinman and Halleck.

The guests from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Noble, Miss Halleck and Mr. Parker, of Detroit; Mrs. Younglove, of Constantine; Dr. and Mrs. Crowe and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bartlett, Sharon, Pa.; Mrs. Charles Tryon, of Bakersfield, Cal.; Miss Bouchard, of Michigan City; Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Francis Taylor, and the Rev. Francis, of Chicago; Dr. Howlett, of Jackson, and Mr. and Mrs. Cassius Wakefield, of Denver, Colo.

The bride and groom left on the 9:30 train for the East via the St. Lawrence and Hudson rivers.  Their future home will be in Chicago, where the groom is engaged in the practice of law.

Miss McOmber was one of Ann Arbor's most esteemed and popular young ladies, a graduate of the literary department of the U. of M. and a member of the Alpha Phi sorority.  The groom was also a graduate of Michigan and a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.