Wedding Wednesday: Cochran / Robertson (1916)

Richmond Times Dispatch (Va)
8 June 1916

Wedding at The Plains

Grace Church, The Plains, was the scene of a pretty wedding yesterday evening at 8 o'clock, when Miss Charlotte Newton Cochran, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Cochran, became the bride of Rolfe Robinson [sic; Robertson], of "Carter's Green," Prince William County. The church was decorated with pink roses and smilax and hundreds of candles. Immediately before the ceremony, Mrs. Joel Cochran sang "The Perfect Day."

The bride entered with her father, who gave her away. She wore a white tulle dress over satin, with lace veil caught with orange blossoms, and carried a shower bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley. There were eight bridesmaids, who wore charming frocks of pink tulle, and carried bouquets of pink roses.

Miss Catherine Cochran was her sister's maid of honor. She wore a nile-green tulle dress, and carried pale-pink roses. Four little ribbon girls, Elizabeth Skinker, Isabel Cochran, Jeanette Cochran and Cora Lee Cochran, wore white tulle dresses with pink sashes, and carried pink baskets of roses.

Miss Virginia Cochran was flower girl. She wore white organdie and pink sash, and carried old-fashioned pink rosebuds.

The bridesmaids were Misses Wynyard Barker, of Warrenton; Rita Robertson, Delaplane; Mary Foster, Clarissa Fleming and Julia Cochran, The Plains; Mary Stuart Robertson, Staunton; Martha Strother, Markham; and Alise Ruge, of Apalachicola, Fla.

The ushers were James Foster, Baltimore; Harry Lee, The Plaines; Lynne Robertson, Prince William County; Henry Latham, Prince William County; Rodgers Friel, Middleburg; Jack McCarty, Delaplane; Tom Cochran, The Plains, and Leslie Keith, Fairfax County. Holmes Robertson was his brother's best man.

After the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Cochran gave a beautiful reception at their handsome home on "The Hill," followed by a dance at the Town Hall. Five hundred guests were entertained during the evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Robertson motored to Washington, en route to Atlantic City and the Thousand Islands. They will be at home in Prince William County after July 1.