Gislason – Tucker Marriage 1908

GISLASON, TUCKER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 9/6/2022 at 09:07:13

Source: Decorah Republican July 2, 1908, P2 C4-5

JUNE WEDDINGS.
The following notice appeared in a recent issue of the Minneapolis Journal. The bride will be recalled by many residents as once a resident of Winneshiek county:
The marriage of Miss Bessie Tucker and Haldor B. Gislason was solemnized last evening at 9:30 o’clock at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Tucker of Holmes avenue S. Carlyle Scott at the piano and Mrs. Scott on the violin played a program of nuptial music during the arrival of the guests. Just before the notes of the “Lohengrin” march were sounded they played Mendelssohn’s “Spring Song.” While the vows were spoken the “Traumeri” was softly played and Mendelssohn’s wedding march marked the close of the service, which was read by Rev. Harry Heald in the presence of fifty guests.
An alter of palms and white peonies was arranged in the living room and the hall was a bower of pink peonies which banked the large window, and filled a large basket on the piano.
The Misses Alma and Laura Rabischung of St. Paul, in pink gowns, stretched the white ribbons from the stairway to the alter, forming an aisle for the bridal party. Miss Kate Mork, a life-long friend of the bride, was to have been the maid of honor, but she missed her boat from England and could not arrive in time so the bridesmaid, Miss Monica Keating, was the only attendant. She wore a gown of white batiste with a wide pink sash and carried a sheaf of pink sweet peas. Little Constance Tucker was flower girl. She wore a smart white frock and carried a basket of pink sweet peas. B. B. Gislason was his brother’s best man. The bride wore a lingerie gown trimmed with princess and Baby Irish lace. Her flowers were white sweet peas.
A buffet supper was served after the ceremony in the dining room, where a color tone of dark red was carried out in the decorations and lights. A Japanese basket filled with large peonies was in the center of the table and the same flowers banked the sideboard. Misses Florence Johnson and Luella Woodeke, Pi Beta Phi sorority sisters of the bride, assisted through the rooms.
Mr. and Mrs. Gislason will leave the first of the week on an extended wedding trip and will be at home after Sept. 1 on the East side. The bride has a dark blue venetian traveling suit with a hat to match.