President Roosevelt Gives The Bride Away*
His Niece Weds His Cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ceremony at Parish Home
The Bride, Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, the Daughter of President's Only Brother.
One of the most notable wedding of the year was that celebrated yesterday, when Miss
Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of the only brother of President Roosevelt, and Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, a cousin of the President, were married by the Rev. Endicott Peabody of Groton,
Conn., at the residence of the bride's cousins, Mr. And Mrs. Henry Parish, Jr., 8 East Seventy-sixth Street.
The bride is an orphan, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, having died a dozen
years or more ago. She has been living with Mrs. Parish since her grandmother, Mrs. Valentine
G. Hall gave up her city home and went to the country to live.
President Roosevelt gave the bride away. The ceremony, which was at 3:30 o'clock, and
witnessed only by relatives and a few intimate friends, in reality took place in the house of Mrs.
E. Livingston Ludlow, Mrs. Parish's mother, whose house opens directly into her daughter's by
wide sliding doors. The two large drawing rooms on the second floor, done alike in pale amber-yellow satin brocade, were thrown into one large salon running the width of the two houses.
The bride, walking with the President, and preceded by her six bridesmaids, came down
the wide flight of stairs leading from the third floor to the second and across the large foyer hall
at the rear of the Parish drawing room, through wide doorways and on to a large mantel at the
west side of the Ludlow drawing room, where the ceremony took place. First in the bridal
procession came the Misses Alice Roosevelt and Corrine Douglas Robinson, followed by the
Misses Ellen Delano and Muriel Delano Robbins, and last the Misses Cutting and Isabella
Selmes. The attendants were in white faille silk frocks trimmed with lace and silver, and wore
tulle veils attached to white Prince of Wales ostrich feathers, tipped with silver, and carried large
bouquets of pink roses.
Following came the bride and the President. The bridal gown was a white satin princess
robe, flounced and draped with old point lace, and with a white satin court train. The bride's
point lace veil was caught with orange blossoms and a diamond crescent. She wore a pearl
collar, the gift of the bridegroom's mother, and a diamond bowknot, the gift of Mrs. Warren
Delano, Jr. Her bouquet was of lilies of the valley.
The bridal procession passed through an aisle formed by the ushers, who held white satin
ribbons. The bridegroom, who came from the large foyer hall of the Ludlow house to the salon
to meet the bride, was attended by Lathrop Brown as best man, J. Roosevelt Roosevelt, a half
brother, not having arrived from the South in time to fill the place. The ushers were Edmund
Rogers, Nicholas Biddle, Lyman Delano, Owen Winston, Charles B. Bradley, W. D. Robbins,
and Thomas P. Beales of Boston. A small reception followed the ceremony.
The house was decorated throughout with ferns, palms, and pink roses. The bride's
grandmother, Mrs. V. G. Hall, was in black velvet and point lace. The bridegroom's mother,
Mrs. James Roosevelt, was in white silk, covered with black lace. Mrs. E. Livingston Ludlow
was in mauve satin and point lace, and Mrs. Henry Parish wore a changeable pale blue and pink
silk crepe, with lace sleeves and yoke.
After the reception the newly wed couple left for a bridal trip of a week only. They are to
sail in the late Spring for Europe, where they will spend the Summer. Meanwhile, on their return
from their bridal trip, they will occupy an apartment at 40 West Forty-fifth Street.
Among the guests asked to the ceremony, besides those mentioned above, were:
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Waterbury, Mr. and Mrs. E. Livingston Ludlow, Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas Robinson, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Delano, Jr., Mr. and Mrs.
Price Collier, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Rogers, Mrs. Endicott
Peabody, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Welles, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hall,
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Scheffelin, Mrs. W. S. Cowles, Miss Ethel Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. F. D.
Hitch, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fiorbes, the Misses Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Newbold, Miss
Blodgett, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Low, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Sloanne.
Among the guests invited to the reception were: J. Coleman Drayton, Mr. and Mrs.
Winthrop Chandler, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Russell, Col. Wiliam Jay and Mrs. Jay, Mr. and Mrs.
Amos French, Frederick Newbold, Mr. and Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond, the Misses Fish, Mrs.
Vanderbilt, Miss Caroline Drayton, Miss Laura Chanler, Mr. and Mrs. Irving Grinnell, Mr. and
Mrs. Goodhue Livingston, Lucius Wilmerding, the Misses Newbold, Henry White, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry White, Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Hammond, Miss A. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Tilden Selmes, Mr.
and Mrs. B. Fulton Cutting.
*From the New York Times, March 18, 1905.
