Concord, June 3.--- Very beautiful and most impressive was the wedding Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the First Presbyterian Church of this city, of Miss Jane Elizabeth White and Preston McKamie Faggart. Dr. W. E. Davis, pastor of the church, officiated, using the ring service of the Presbyterian ritual.
Harmonizing effectively with the stately colonial architecture of the church, the decorations were quite simple but beautiful. Against a background of potted evergreens, white double larkspur was arranged in silver vases, and smilax was entwined effectively under the windows. The family pews were marked by graceful Easter lilies. Tall white tapers set in two seven branched candelabra lighted the wedding scene.
Samuel Goodman, organist, and Miss Elizabeth Woodhouse, soprano, rendered the wedding music beginning the prenuptial program on the tower chimes with "Faithful and True", "Parlez-moi d'amour," "I Love You Truly", and "Sunrise and You."
He then played "Kamenoi=Ostrow" by Rubenstein, and "Largo" from the "Symphony in D" by Cesare Franck.
Miss Elizabeth Woodhouse, coloratura soprano, sang the beautiful wedding song, "Beloved It Is Morn." Miss Woodhouse was attired in an afternoon model of pink lace with blue hat of horsehair braid. Her corsage was of white roses.
The four ushers, Everett McKinley, of Kannopolis, Joe Foil, Nevin Sappenfield, and E. L. Morrison, Jr. of Concord, were the first of the bridal party to enter the church.
The bride had as her only attendants her two sisters, Misses Ellen and Isabelle White. Their costumes were exactly alike, being afternoon gowns of beige lace over pink and blue maline hats worn off the face, and blue sandals, they each carried nosegays of mixed garden flowers.
The bridegroom, attended by his best man, Wallace Morris, entered from a side door and met his bride at the alter.
The bride entered with her father, Chalmers Lindley White, who gave her in marriage. Her wedding gown was of apricot lace, floor length, and with it she wore a hat of brown horsehair braid and brown sandals and carried an arm bouquet of white roses and lilies of the valley.
Immediately after the ceremony, the bridal party, the two immediate families, and the out-of-town guests were entertained at an informal reception at the home of the bride's parents. After the reception, the bride changed to her traveling costume of gray with navy accessories, and left with the bridegroom for a motor trip through the Shenandoah Valley. Upon their return they will reside in Concord at the home of Mrs. H. I. Woodhouse.
Mrs. Faggart, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers Lindley White, received her education at Converse College and for several years has been a member of the city school faculty, a position to which she has been appointed for another year.
Mr. Faggart, son of Mrs. A. M. Faggart, and the late Mr. Faggart, attended Davidson College, and for some time has been connected with Gibson's Drug Store.
Among the last of the pre-nuptial affairs given for this popular couple was the stag supper Wednesday evening at Hotel Concord for Mr. Faggart by the men of the bridal party.
After the rehearsal, Thursday evening, the members of the bridal party were entertained informally by the bride's parents.
Charlotte people in Concord for the wedding included Mr. and Mrs. Tom White, Misses Rose Ellen and Eloise White, Mr and Mrs. W. C. Taylor, Mrs. Winney Barron Pegram, and Miss Helenora Withers.
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