- Gazette and Bulletin, Williamsport, PA, Saturday, 1 Mar 1952, p. 3, col. A
Joan K. Ludwig to Pledge Vows
Hepburnville Presbyterian Church will be the scene of the marriage today of Miss Jean Kathryn Ludwig, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Ludwig, Cogan Station RD 2, to Staff Sgt. Wendle Reese Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Moore, Cogan Station RD 2.
The double ring ceremony will be performed by the Rev. Sinclair Reid at 8 p.m. before an altar arranged with palms, white carnations and snapdragons. Mrs. Samuel Metzger, Cogan Station, will present the wedding music and Mrs. John Strange, Mansfield, will be soloist.
The bride-elect, given in marriage by her father, will wear a white sating gown designed with long pointed sleeves, lace bodice with peplum and long train. Her fingertip veil will be attached to a tiara of seed pearls and she will carry a white Bible topped with an orchid.
Mrs. Barry Hafer, Mansfield, sister of the bride-to-be, will serve as matron of honor. Bridesmaid will include Mrs. Henry Bluhm, Lewisburg, and Mrs. Donald Forney, this city.
The attendants will wear identical strapless gowns with taffeta bodices and net skirts. They will have matching headress and will carry colonial boquets. Their gowns will be of pink, green and orchid, respectively.
Carol Ludwig, Cogan Station, sister of the bride-elect, will be flower girl and Charles Greninger, Jr., Cogan Station, nephew of the prospective bridegroom, will be ring bearer.
Best man for Sergeant Moore will be Albert Wagner, Montoursville. Charles Moore, Jr., and Quentin Moore, Baltimore, Md., brothers of the prospective bridegroom, will usher.
For her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Ludwig has chosen an orchid dress with black accessories and a pink rosebud corsage. Mrs. Moore will be attired in a navy dress with pink accessories and a pink rosebud corsage.
A reception for 200 guests will be held in the church social hall following the ceremony after which the couple will leave for a wedding trip.
For traveling Miss Ludwig has chosen a checked suit with black accessories, a tangerine top coat and an orchid corsage.
A graduate of Hepburnville High School and the Williamsport Hospital School of Nursing, the bride-to-be is currently a staff nurse at the Williamsport Hospital.
Sergeant Moore, a graduate of the Williamsport High School and a veteran of World War II, has just returned from a three year tour of duty with the Air Force in Berdenfeld, Germany. He will report to Amarillo, Tex., March 8.
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