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Allen-Middleton Wedding - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal November 20, 1936

ALLEN-MIDDLETON
(The New Orleans Item)

An out-of-town wedding of widespread interest in Louisiana and nearby states was the marriage in 
Plaquemine, Louisiana, on Saturday evening, November 7, of Miss Carolyn Poynter Middleton, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Beverly Middleton, and niece of the late Judge Calvin K. Schwing, to Doctor 
William Dean Hall Allen of New Orleans and Tallulah, La., son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Allen of Tallulah.

The ceremony was held at the old Schwing home which has been in Miss Middleton's mother's family 
for nearly a century. The bride was married in the drawing room at an improved altar on each side 
of which were seven branched candle standards tied with yellow ribbon and clusters of yellow chrysanthemums. 
The background was banked with the same, and with the palms that were used in the same place at her 
mother's wedding. The ribbon bearers, Ann Mercedes and Carl Postell and Leila Mayes Obier of Plaquemine, 
Catherine Chadwick of Bayou Goula, Roberta Sevier of Tallulah, and Carolyn Schwing of New Orleans, 
in long green faille taffeta Empire dresses, preceded the bridal party down the stairway and formed 
an aisle to the altar.

The bride's attendants were Misses Faith Bancroft of Stillwater, Minn., Yvonne Favrot of Baton Rouge, 
Carolyn Sevier of Tallulah, and Elizabeth Hebert of Plaquemine. The maid of honor was Miss Katherine Kurzweg 
of Plaquemine. Mrs. Jack Mayfield of New Orleans was matron of honor.

The bridesmaids wore dresses in the autumn shades of faille taffeta in Empire style, with dainty 
puffed sleeves and slight trains.

Doctor Jack Atkinson of Brookhaven, Mississippi, was the best man and the groomsmen were Doctor W. C. Gray 
and Doctor George Webb of New Orleans, Mr. W. Beverly Middleton, Jr., of Plaquemine, Doctor De Loach Thames 
of New Orleans, and Mr. Cliff Adams of Tallulah.

Piano, violin and cello musicians furnished the music for the wedding.

Entering on the arm of her father to the strains of Lohengrin's Wedding March, the bride was lovely in a 
gown of white satin made in princess lines, with a long train. The sleeves were tight fitting, ending in 
points over the hands. Her veil of illusion was caught at the back of her head by a wreath of orange blossoms, 
and fell in a long train. Her bouquet was of valley lilies and white orchids. She wore a diamond cross that 
had been in her family for five generations and that her mother wore on her wedding day.

Miss Mary Ada Hardy of Jasper Texas, who is a classmate of the bride, and a student of music at Newcomb College, 
sang "Because' and "L'Arnour, Toujours L'Amour' before the wedding march. During the ceremony Miss Hardy sang 
"I Love You Truly" accompanied by the string orchestra.

The Reverend Dr. Sam Slack of St. James Episcopal Church in Alexandria performed the ceremony.

Immediately after the wedding an informal reception was held. The bride's mother received in a gown of dubonnet 
lace and she wore a shoulder bouquet of orchids and valley lilies. Mrs. Allen, mother of the groom, wore a gown 
of dubonnet crepe and a shoulder bouquet of orchids and valley lilies.

In the dining room the bride's table was centered with a white wedding cake iced in roses and lilies of the valley, 
silver candlesticks and lighted tapers added to the beauty of the table, small sprays of white button chrysanthemums 
tied with satin ribbon were the flowers used on the table.

The bride's going away costume was a chic dubonnet ensemble of woolen cloth trimmed with Persian lamb.

The young couple left by automobile for the Ozark Mountains and will return by way of St. Louis and Memphis, reaching 
New Orleans about the eighteenth of November. 

Doctor Allen, who is serving his second year as interne at Charity Hospital, will resume his work, and Mrs. Allen, who 
is a senior at Newcomb College, will continue her studies. After two weeks they will be at home in an apartment, 
3433 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans.

Besides the many town guests there were Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Allen, Messrs J. E. Neill, Cliff Adams, Francis Jordan, 
Don Sevier, W. W. Ziegler, W. E. Reginold, William Farley, L. G. Story, W. F. Powell, W. P. Sevier, Henry Clay Sevier, Jr., 
Delma Devine, Robert Gandy, William F. Gandy, Claude Grimes, J. H. Bryant, Steve Voelker, H. W. Lee, C. H. Todd, 
Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Yerger and Misses Georgette Ziegler, Frances Kathan, Carolyn and Roberta Sevier, and Mesdames 
Henry C. Sevier, J. S. Agee, B. P. Folk, L. G. Kathan, all of Tallulah.