Pretty May Wedding

WALKER, BEIK

Posted By: Judy Kelley, volunteer (email)
Date: 6/3/2010 at 20:39:27

Source: LCHS scrapbook; May 18,1906

The marriage of Miss Calla M. Walker and Mr. Dan Beik which took place at the elegant home of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Beik Thursday evening at 8 p.m., was one of exceptional daintiness. Miss Jessie Cocklin presided at the piano and played the wedding march to which strains the young people, attended by Miss Vera Walker, sister of the bride, and Mr. Hilton Beik, brother of the groom, took their places in the front parlor beneath an arch beautifully decorated with snowy white lilacs and blossoms, making a most charming picture for the uniting of these estimable young people. Elder Chamberlain, of the Church of God performed the ceremony in a most graceful manner. The bride wore a dainty white gown and carried a shower bouquet of lilies of the valley and never did she look more charming. Mr. Beik is well known in this vicinity and is imbued with all the qualities which go to make a gentleman in every sense of the word. Dan is an enterprising young farmer, being recognized for his business ability and manly traits, also one whom the girls were pleased to glance a smile in his direction and no doubt some of them will carry long faces now that he is no longer called a "young fellow."

The wedding was attended by relatives and a few intimate friends of the contracting parties to the number of about ninety. The house was most artistically decorated, white and green being used in the color scheme, while cut flowers and ferns were placed about which added to the effect.

At the conclusion of the marriage, supper was announced when all were escorted to the dining room where a feast indeed awaited all. And such a feast! The tables more than groaned with good things. The wedding supper was complete, being one of the finest in the county, and the bride's cake was declared a most beautiful one. The tables were also decorated with white and green and lilies of the valley.

The esteem in which these young people are held by their friends was evidenced by the many beautiful and useful presents received, consequently these young people have a wide acquaintance in this vicinity and all extend hearty congratulations.