Hagen-Shields Marriage

HAGEN, SHIELDS, JOHNSON, SMITH, SULLENS, TORY, HAMILTON

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Date: 7/16/2010 at 15:09:29

Grinnell Herald (Grinnell, Iowa) Sept. 8, 1933

MISS LILLIE HAGEN BRIDE OF MR. JOHN SHIELDS

Ceremony Was Performed Wednesday Evening At Eight o'Clock.

A beautiful home wedding of the early fall season took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hagen, when their daughter, Miss Lillie Ethel, became the bride of Mr. John A. Shields of Columbus, Ohio, son of Mr. Milan Shields of Washington, Iowa.

Just before the appointed hour Miss Clara Phillips sang very sweetly "At Dawning," accompanied on the piano by Mr. Raymond Eastridge. Mr. Eastridge then played the wedding march from Lohengrin. To the sweet strains of the wedding march the bridal party descended the stairway and took their places. First came the best man, Mr. Harold Johnson of Fairfield, Iowa, followed by the bridegroom, then the maid of honor, Miss Minnie Smith, the two bridesmaids, Miss Marguerite Hagen and Mrs. Helen Lunt Sullens of Des Moines, the the bride on the arm of her father, and the two little train bearers, Miss Iris Jean Tory of New Boston, Iowa, and Miss Phyllis Jean Hamilton of Keokuk, Ia.

The impressive single ring ceremony was performed by Dr. George Blagg of New Sharon.

Immediately following the ceremony Miss Phillips sang "I Love You Truly."

Following congratulations pictures of the bride and the bridegroom, the bride, and the bridal party were taken by Mr. Arthur Child.

The service was read in front of an improvised arch in the dining room. The arch was in the form of a garden gate, the lattice work being prettily decorated with green ferns and yellow gladiolas; above the arch was a wedding bell of green ferns and yellow gladiolas with a false bottom containing rose petals which were showered on the bride and groom after the pictures were taken. In the background of the arch was an ivy vine prettily decorated with yellow gladiolas. The arch arrangement and the house decorations as well as the refreshments, all carried out the green and yellow color scheme. Mr. William Bader had charge of the arch arrangement and the room decorations.

The bride wore a gorgeous gown of white silk lace over silk crepe with a cap style tulle and lace veil held in place by orange blossoms. Across the front of the cap of the veil were pearls and rhinestones. She carried a shower bouquet of white roses and swainsonial tied with white tulle with white ribbon steamers. Her gloves, necklace, and other accessories matched her wedding dress.

The bridegroom wore a dark blue suit and both the bridegroom and best man wore buttonaires of swainsonia.

The maid of honor wore a lovely green chiffon dress with accessories to match, and carried a bouquet of yellow roses, the bridesmaids were dressed in yellow crepe and carried bouquets of yellow roses. One little train bearer wore a yellow silk dress with a green hair ribbon and green hose, and the other wore a green silk dress with a yellow hair ribbon and yellow hose.

The bride's mother wore a lovely dress of sheer black lace and net, with a white rose on the left shoulder.

Mrs. Martin Eichhorn and Mrs. Addie Brown were in charge of the refreshments which consisted of ice cream in the shape of wedding slippers, the slipper being yellow ice cream with green ice cream buckles and in the slipper was green ice cream to imitate a stocking being pushed in the slipper; the groom's cake and the bride's cake, nuts, mints and coffee. Three cousins of the bride, Eunice Hamilton, Violet and Lorraine Hagen, served the refreshments.

The members of the bridal party, the bride's parents, the bridegroom's father and other close relatives and the bride's grandmother were given favors of orange blossom sprays. The groom's wedding cake was wrapped in small packages by the bride's aunts and was given the guests as favors. The cake was baked by the bride's mother.

The beautiful three-tier bride's cake was baked by Mrs. Martin Eichhorn and Mrs. George Hagen got the ring, Mrs. Phillip Hagen the dime, and Mrs. Lyle Sullens the thimble.

The young couple received many beautiful gifts which attested the high esteem in which they are held by their many relatives and friends.

About eleven o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Shields departed by auto for Chicago, where they will visit the Century of Progress and visit with relatives and friends before going to Columbus, Ohio, where they will make their home.

Mrs. Shields is an accomplished and likeable young lady of this city. She graduated from Grinnell high school in the class of 1929 and from Grinnell college in the class of 1933. She worked for a time in the office of the G.W.M. corporation while attending school.

Mr. Shields was graduated from Grinnell college in the class of 1930 and from the Harvard school of business in 1932 and is now in the office of the Equitable Life Assurance company of New York at Columbus, Ohio.

The bride threw her bouquet from the stairway and it was caught by Miss Marguerite Hagen. When the bride started on her wedding trip she was attired in a brown traveling suit with a brown hat and veil and other accessories to match. About her shoulders was a lovely red fox fur which was a gift from her brother, Erno.

The guests at the wedding were the groom's father, Mr. Milan Shields, Miss Tetia Shields, Miss Edith Shields, Bill A. Shields and Bob Shields, all of Washington, Iowa; the bride's grandmother, Mrs. W.S. Hamilton of New Boston; Mrs. Hubert Hamilton, daughter, Eunice, and son, Hubert, Jr., of Fort Madison; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hamilton and daughter Phyllis Jean, of Keokuk; Mrs. Frank Tory and daughter, Iris Jean, of New Boston; Mr. Harold Johnson of Fairfield; Mildred, Margaret and Dorothy Yoran of Manchester; Dr. and Mrs. George Blagg of New Sharon; Harold Forrester of Adel; Mrs. Ancel Hays and daughter, Mary Faith, of Chicago; Mrs. S.A. Gortner, Donald and Ada, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Sullens of Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. Grant Hagen, Walter and Erno, Charles Findeis, Mr. and Mrs. George fagen, daughters Violet and Bonnie Marie, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Hagen, daughters, Marguerite, Lorraine, and son, Willard, Mr. and Mrs. William Hagen and son, Carrol, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fowler and daughter, Genevieve, Mr. and Mrs. William Bader, Paul Wilson, Clara Phillips, Raymond Eastridge, Minnie Smith, Will Smith, William Gossen, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Child, Mrs. Addie Brown and Mrs. Martin Eichhorn.