Nellie Grant Wedding Special, The Daily Graphic - Image 2

This engraving depicts the Grant-Sartoris wedding party: the mother of the bride, Julia Grant, the best man and Nellie’s older brother, Frederick Grant, and Nellie’s eight bridesmaids, who were all from affluent families. The bridesmaids wore lustrous white silk gowns with tulle overlaying them in a pleated ruffle fashion and a pouf in the back of the skirts, as bustles and trim at the center back of skirts were in vogue. Four of the ladies were decorated with blue flowers and the other four with rose-pink flowers. In the English tradition, Algernon did not have any groomsmen besides his best man, Frederick.