On Sunday morning at 8:45, a very pretty wedding took place at the Payne residence on Caswell street [Afton, Chenango Co., NY] when Mrs. Ella Lindsey was married to Butler Payne by Rev. Clifford E. Webb, pastor of the Presbyterian church. They were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Wells LeSuer of Greene. A wedding breakfast was served following the ceremony. There were 30 guests present. [MHD notation: May 15, 1935]
The marriage of Miss Nellie Mildred Petley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Eugene Petley, of 23 Juliand street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], to Loren Newton Hovey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Hovey, of 23 Kirby street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], took place in the Methodist Episcopal Church at 10 o'clock, Wednesday morning, July 17, 1940. The Rev. George N. Underwood performed the ceremony. The altar of the church was convincingly transformed into a colonial garden and this setting of rustic beauty formed an appropriate background for the ceremony. While the guests assembled there was a program of music consisting of favorite compositions of the bride, with Mrs. A.C. Wilcox at the organ. The selections included "Meditation De Thais," by Massenet; "Ave Maria," by Schubert; and "Liebestraum," by Franz Liszt. Miss Georgianna Hovey, sister of the bridegroom, sang "I Love You truly," by Carrie Jacobs Bond and "Oh Promise Me," by Reginald De Koven. Announcing the arrival of the bridal party was "The Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin," by Wagner and following the ceremony and during the reception Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" was played. The entire wedding party wore white. The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore a gown of white satin with long sleeves and a circular train. Her double tiered illusion veil was held in place by a wreath of orange blossoms and extended to the end of the long train. She carried a shower bouquet of white rosebuds and gypsophilia. Miss Margaret Wilcox, maid of Honor, was dressed in white silk jersey, made in a style similar to the wedding gown. Her arm bouquet consisted of yellow roses and gypsophilia tied with yellow ribbon. The two bridesmaids, Mrs. Ernest Hoyt and Miss Janice Pratt, wore duplicate dresses of white embroidered marquisette and carried bouquets of pastel colored sweet peas and gypsophilia. The three attendants wore short white tulle veils fastened with tiny coronets. Clinton Wilcox was best man and Carl Hovey, brother of the bridegroom, Loren Mann, Howard Loker and Alton Hollenbeck were ushers. The bride's mother wore cadet blue and white chiffon with white accessories and a corsage of Talisman roses. Mrs. Hovey, mother of the bridegroom, wore flowered chiffon with white accessories and a corsage of talisman roses. A reception followed the ceremony in the church parlors with fifty relatives and friends mingling in the rooms which were attractively decorated with ferns and flowers of pastel shade. While the wedding breakfast was being served in the dining room of the church, Mrs. Wilcox played piano selections and Miss Hovey sang "Liebestraum." A three-tiered wedding cake centered the bride's table. Several cousins of the bride served, Mrs. Clifton Stannard, of Frankfort; Miss Louise Petley, of Smithville Flats; Mrs. Roland James, Mrs. Raymond Garriosn, Miss Pearl Bliss, Mrs. Robert Crawford, and Mrs. Clifford Tuckey, of Sidney. Mr. and Mrs. Hovey left immediately for a trip through the New England states. The bride's traveling costume was a cadet blue suit with white chiffon blouse and navy accessories. Upon their return they will be at home to their many friends in their new home the bridegroom has at Kirby street. Mrs. Hovey graduated form Bainbridge High School and has an A.B. Degree from Syracuse University and a M.A. Degree from Columbia University. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta National fraternity and has been head of the English department of the Bainbridge Central School. In the Summer of 1938, she taught in the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro N.C. She is president of the Crescendo Club, a teacher of the Y.P.S.S. Class and is active in other church and fraternal organizations. Mr. Hovey is a graduate of Bainbridge Central High School and is a Partner with his father in the Hovey Company in Bainbridge. He is a senior deacon of the F.&A.M. Lodge of Bainbridge and is a member of the Crescendo Club....On Tuesday, the bride entertained at afternoon tea for her attendants and soloist. She presented them with white necklaces. The bridegroom gave ties to his best man and ushers. Those giving pre-nuptial showers and parties were: Alpha Gamma Delta Alumni Club at Binghamton, World Wide Guild, Bainbridge Central School faculty, Sunday School Council, Mrs. Fred Hamlin, Mrs. Ernest Hoyt and the Misses Margaret Wilcox and Janet Pratt, Mrs. William Northrup and Mrs. Roland James, Young People's Sunday School Class, Crescendo Club and the Federated societies. [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 18, 1940]
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