Shinkle-Keeler wedding; Llewellyn Hemingray in attendance

Shinkle-Keeler

Wedding at

Forster Home

Fashionable Late Afternoon

Ceremony in Elaborate

Setting — to Spend

Honeymoon in Honolulu.

MISS LUCILE FIELD KEEL­ER, attractive dark-haired daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gouverneur Keeler, was married late yesterday afternoon to Bradford Shinkle Jr.

In the two weeks that have elapsed since the engagement was announced, a trousseau has been purchased, invitations sent to more than 500 guests and ar­rangements completed for one of the largest marquees ever to be built in St. Louis for a private social function. The bride­groom’s parents, who spend their winters at their Phoenix (Ariz.) home, and who were here for the holidays, had planned to return West soon after the announce­ment party, but wedding plans were hastened to enable them to attend the ceremony.

Elaborate Setting.

THE elaborate setting, lavish flower decoration and pretty dresses combined to make it the outstanding wedding of re­cent months. The marquee adjoined the Hampton Park home of the bride’s uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. L. Marquard For­ster, where the reception was also held. Reached through a large, specially built reception room, the great canvas inclosure was built over the garden, with nat­ural evergreens growing in one corner to shield a stringed or­chestra which accompanied or­gan wedding music. The floor was covered in dark blue, and white walls, meeting a high vaulted, pale blue ceiling, were thickly festooned with silvered huckleberry foliage and dotted with large silver cornucopias spilling white snapdragon.

White-covered chairs were ar­ranged pew-fashion, with a can­dle-lit aisle to an altar at the far end. Sixteen ushers led the wed­ding party to a curved white chiffon velvet wall, the material hanging in soft shirred folds back of hundreds of Easter lilies and woodwardia fern. Lilies and greenery were banked high be­tween tall wrought iron cande­labra filled with lighted white tapers across the entire front of the chapel-like room, and resem­bled a floral bower in the cen­ter where a dais slightly elevat­ed the bridal pair. The cere­mony was performed by the Rev. John S. Kane of St. Charles Borromeo Church.

Just before the start of the wedding procession, Mrs. Keeler and Mr. and Mrs. Shinkle were seated in front pews. The bride's mother wore a beige crepe afternoon gown with a short beige jacket trimmed with matching fox fur, and a brown hat and brown accessories. She fastened orchids at her shoulder. Mrs. Shinkle’s gown was pleated mauve chiffon with a wide inset girdle of mauve satin. With her costume she wore a mauve satin jacket and a small hat of dusty pink flowers held in place by bands of brown grosgrain rib­bon to match her veil.

In contrast to the blue and silvery white of the surroundings, the gowns of the brides eight attendants were Dubonnet taffeta combined with talisman pink, re­flecting the colors of their flowers — rubrum lilies sent from Cali­fornia. The bridesmaids wore the wine shade, their gowns simp­ly made with basque bodices, short sleeves set into broad shoul­ders and full skirts ending in demi-trains. Their hats were pink taffeta, unusual models with shallow shirred crowns and loose­ly pleated two-layer brims, the layers separated by wine-colored bows and finished in back with two wide pink streamers to the waist. The bridesmaids were Miss Elizabeth Myrl James, Mrs. Gilbert Robinson Pirrung, Mrs. Alanson C. Brown Jr., Miss Mar­tha O'Neil, Mrs. John David Sweeney Jr. of New York, Miss Elizabeth Weiss of Houston, Tex., and Miss Florence Shinkle, the bridegroom's sister, junior brides­maid, whose costume differed from the others only in her head­ dress. Instead of a hat she wore a bandeau of pink marquisette ruching. held in back by wine-colored flowers. Mrs. Frederick B. Swarts, the former Miss Eliza­beth Von Phul Keeler, as her sis­ter's matron of honor, wore pink taffeta, accented by & wine-col­ored bows on her hat. The pink lilies the young women carried were made in semi-showers, with buds trailing over the front of their gowns.

Bride in Ivory Satin and Tulle.

MR. KEELER escorted his daughter to the altar. Her gown was ivory slipper satin with a tulle overskirt 30 yards wide. The pointed basque bodice, tucked across the front, had long sleeves full at the shoulders and fitted into points over the hands. The tulle skirt flared into a three-yard train. A tulle veil was ar­ranged from a coronet of orange blossoms and the face veil fell over the bride’s flowers — white orchids, lilies of the valley and fresh orange blossoms, ordered from the West by the bride­groom's father.

Jackson Johnson Shinkle was his brother's best man. Ushers were: Andrew Shinkle, another brother; James H. Wear Jr., Wil­lis Dean Hadley, Mr. Pirrung, Arthur A. Dunn Jr., Edward Engler, Mr. Brown, Lee L Niedringhaus and Charlton Albert Gunter, all of St. Louis; John T. Crotty Jr. and John Blaffer of Houston, George X. McLanahan of New York, whose wife, the former Sally Clark, is a sister of Mrs. John Roosevelt; George Shwab Jr. of Nashville, Henry Carpen­ter of Spring Lake, Mich., a former St. Louisan, and Howard McIlvain of Philadelphia.

Reception After Ceremony.

At the conclusion of the serv­ice the bridal party returned down the long aisle and pro­ceeded into the living room to re­ceive the guests against a back­ground of white lilacs and snap­dragon before wide windows. Roses decorated the rest of the house — yellow in the sun room and Queen Mary in the dining room.

Meanwhile the chapel was cleared of its chairs and small tables were set up for the recep­tion. The wedding party sat for dinner in another specially built room off the marquee. White li­lacs and hundreds of gardenias and lilies of the valley adorned the candle-lit U-shaped table, the flowers in china horns of plenty, garlanded together with gardenias.

Out-of-town guests included: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Murphy of Miami, the bride’s grandparents; the bridegroom's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Shinkle of Cincinnati, with their daughters, Miss Kate and Miss Frances, and their son, Clifford Jr.; anoth­er aunt, Mrs. James Russell Forgan of New York; A. M. Byers of Pittsburgh. Mrs. McLanahan and Mrs. Shwab, wives of ushers; Mrs. Robert Brown of Lexington, Ky., and the bridegroom s cousin, Miss Llwellyn Hemingray of Cov­ington, Ky.

Mr. and Mrs. Shinkle will sail Friday from Los Angeles on the Lurline to spend a month in Honolulu, and on their way home will stop in Phoenix for three weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Shinkle Sr. For the spring they will oc­cupy the Shinkles’ St. Louis home at 35 Portland place.