Nancy McEwan engagement and wedding clippings, with envelope and photograph, 1965–1968

A composite album page assembling clippings, a photograph, and an envelope documenting the debut, engagement, and wedding of Nancy Fletcher McEwan, daughter of Oswald Beverly McEwan and Mary Ann Walker McEwan and granddaughter of the compiler (Amy FitzSimons Walker).

Upper left — newspaper photograph (1965)

A formal black-and-white photograph showing Nancy in a white debutante gown standing beside her father in evening dress. Caption beneath:

Nancy Fletcher McEwan was presented by her father, O. Beverly McEwan, and escorted by her brother, Christopher Gaillard McEwan.

A pencilled date below: 1965.

Below the photograph — small captioned head-shot

A clipped head-and-shoulders photo of Nancy, captioned beside it:

JUST HEARD that pretty Nancy McEwan,

Identified beneath as Nancy McEwan, with body copy continuing:

…daughter of Maryann and Bo McEwan, who made her debut at the New Year’s Eve Ball at the Rosalind Club, will attend the famed Charleston, S.C., St. Cecilia Ball in late January. This ball, of hallowed tradition, is, perhaps, the most exclusive social event in the entire country. Nancy will be visiting her cousins in Charleston.

A pencilled date: JAN. 1965.

Center — engagement notice (clipped column with photo, section “E-6”)

Small bridal head-shot above the heading.

McEwan-Green

ORLANDO — Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Beverly McEwan announce the engagement of their daughter, Nancy Fletcher, to Theodore Robert Green, Orlando, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Theodore Green, Deerfield Beach.

The wedding will be at noon Feb. 3, in the Cathedral of St. Luke Episcopal Church.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mrs. James Pickens Walker, Jacksonville, and the late Mr. Walker. She attended Ashley Hall, Charleston, S.C., and was graduated from Boone High School and attended the University of Georgia and the Villa Mercede, Florence, Italy. She was presented to society at the Rosalind Club and at the St. Cecilia Ball in Charleston. She is also a member of the Junior League of Orlando.

Her fiance was graduated from East Aurora High in New York, attended Cornell University and received his MBA degree from the University of Miami where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity.

Upper right — Corner Cupboard NEWS feature, February 8, 1968 (Orlando-Winter Park-Maitland-Casselberry, Fla.), page 8

A half-column bridal portrait of the bride in white veil, white mink pillbox hat with veil, and white mink fur stole at the shoulder.

NANCY McEWAN BECOMES MRS. THEODORE GREEN

ONE OF the dearest and most thoroughly charming weddings united Nancy Fletcher McEwan and Theodore Robert Green last Saturday at noon in the Cathedral Church of St. Luke. The Reverend Frank Campbell Gray officiated.

Nancy’s stunning off white belted suit featured a white mink collar and her bridal hat was attached to a white mink pillbox — to becoming to her Dresden loveliness. She was attended by her cousin, Amy McEwan who looked especially pretty in a street length soft pink linen dress accented with mass green velvet. Amy carried pink sweetheart roses and Nancy’s bridal bouquet was fashioned of white roses, lilies of the valley and ivy.

Ted’s best man was his brother, Jack, of Coral Gables and ushers were Nancy’s handsome brothers, Chris and Jim and her cousin, Bruce McEwan.

The bride’s mother, Mrs. Oswald Beverly McEwan chose a deep pink suit complemented by a flowered whimsy and Mrs. John Theodore Green wore mauve.

The reception was held in the dining rooms of the Country Club of Orlando where a giant ice carving of a heart flanked by long large tapers as impressive as the gourmet buffet.

The bride and groom will make their home in Orlando after a wedding trip to South America and Jamaica.

Mrs. Theodore R. Green

Lower center — newspaper photograph of newlyweds

A black-and-white press photograph: the bride and groom descending the steps of the cathedral, the bride in her wool wedding suit, fur stole, and pillbox veil holding her bouquet, the groom in a dark suit at her arm. American flag visible at left. A single small child (a toddler in white) stands at the right edge of the steps. Caption (referenced by the original article):

Newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. [Theodore Robert] Green leave the Cathedral Chu[rch of] St. Luke after their noon weddi[ng] Saturday. On the steps are Sean and Anne Landon. For details, see Tea Table Chatter.

Star Photo by Havern Sommers

Lower left — addressed envelope

A pale envelope. Postmark at upper right reads ATHENS / FEB 2 / 1965 with a “PRAY FOR PEACE” slogan cancel. A pencilled annotation at left reads simply “Both.” The envelope is addressed in a slanted blue cursive:

Mrs. J. P. Walker Martha Washington Hotel Jacksonville, Florida

[Athens, Ga. is where Nancy was at the University of Georgia (per engagement notice); the addressee “Mrs. J. P. Walker” is the compiler Amy FitzSimons Walker, who at the time lived at the Martha Washington Hotel in Jacksonville. The “Both.” annotation may indicate this envelope contained two enclosures — perhaps the debut clipping and the head-shot caption Amy then pasted onto this page.]

Right margin — TEA TABLE CHATTER (continuation column, page 2-B)

A narrow strip trimmed from page 2-B of the same paper, pasted vertically along the right edge. Text reads:

Mary Ann (Mrs. O. B.) McEwan chose for her daughter’s wedding a deep pink raw silk suit with sheath skirt with matching shell and headpiece. Mrs. John Theodore Green, Deerfield Beach, mother of the bridegroom, wore a grey Italian braided knit suit with fox

TEA TABLE CHATTER

collar and a pillbox of matching knit. Nancy’s maternal grandmother, Mrs. J. Pickens Walker of Jacksonville, wore spring blue silk crepe in soft straight skirt, oversized blouse with straight chantilly lace with bow jacket, and her matching flat war made of leaves in blindstone whisper of blue. In attendance at the wedding were Mary Ann’s brother, J. Pickens Walker Jr., and his wife, Anne, (also of Jacksonville), who wore a powder blue wool knit with matching jacket and small white flowered hat as a brace of green leaves, all over corsages of phalaenopsis orchids.

MARY ANN and Bo invited guests to a wedding brunch at the Country Club of Orlando where receiving line formed before the large antique mirror in the dining room. Two large arrangements of woodwardia flanked the mirror as did two spiral candelabra holding bird white tapers. The laden buffet table, centered with an arrangement of roses, candelabra, with lighted tapers and the bride’s table featured an arrangement of white sweetheart roses, white feathered carnations and smilax, as did the table from which champagne punch was served & huge ice mold.

Ted and his bride are heading to South America — Bogota, Colombia and Barranquilla to be followed by a 10-day visit in Jamaica after which they will be at home at 1008 Strathmore, Orlando.