From The Pittsburgh Press
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
10 January, 1906

AN ALLEGHENY
HOME WEDDING
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Reception and Dinner to Follow 
the Marsh-Gilleland
Ceremony
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   The Marsh home, in Locust street, Allegheny, will present an attractive appearance this evening, when Miss Nell Marsh will be united in marriage to Mr. J. Roy Gilleland, the Rev. Dr. James M. Thoburn, pastor of the Calvary Methodist Church, performing the ceremony.
   The bride, who will be given away by her father, Mr. George W. Marsh, will be gowned in a wedding dress of white messaline satin trimmed with princesse lace, with a tulle veil caught with lilies of the valley, which falls to the end of her train. A shower of lilies of the valley and bride’s roses will form her bouquet. The attendants are Miss Gertrude Eckert, maid of honor, who will wear a pretty gown of chiffon over silk, and carries a bouquet a pink rosebuds; Miss Laura Smith and Miss Carrie Marsh, as bridesmaids, gowned in white silk, with trimmings of pink ribbon, and carrying pink rosebuds, with wreaths of rosebuds adorning their heads. The bride’s mother is to be gowned in a pretty black lace costume, trimmed with jet, while the groom’s mother is to wear an evening toilette of white lace over blue silk. Herbert Snaman will serve as best man, while the ushers will be Howard Marsh and John Phillips, and Master Louis Voigt will act as ring bearer.
   The ceremony will be performed at 8 o’clock in front of the temporary altar, banked with ferns and tall palms standing at each side. The decorations of the house are most artistic. Festoons of smilax are to be used in the windows, while tall brass standards containing carnations and roses stand about the rooms. after the church ceremony there is to be a dinner, covers being laid for eight at the bride’s table. A beautiful centerpiece of pink rosebuds is to adorn this table, and pretty cards, in the form of white satin ribbon, embossed with a spray of rosebuds and the old English letters, the initials of the bride and groom at the top of the ribbon, while the guest’s name is at the botton. A reception will follow the dinner, and the bride and groom leave for an extended trip, Wednesdays in March being announced as the at-home days, in Bellevue.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010