Order of the Evening
Hotel Beaumont · Grand Ballroom · New York City
Arrival of Guests
Champagne & Iced Cocktails
The Ceremony
Grand Ballroom, Hotel Beaumont
The Wedding Breakfast
Dinner & Dancing to the Orchestra
The Charleston Contest
Prizes for the Most Spirited
The Cutting of the Cake
Followed by the Last Waltz
Farewell & Safe Passage
Motorcar Service Available
The Venue
Hotel Beaumont
767 Fifth Avenue · New York City, New York
What the Evening
Shall Offer.
This correspondent has been granted a preview of the arrangements. What follows is an account.
The Orchestra
A full jazz ensemble, period-correct
The Cocktails
Prohibition-era recipes, faithfully restored
The Dress
Black tie — 1926 edition
The Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Beaumont has been dressed with extraordinary care. Gold and black dominate — garlands of smilax, great urns of white roses, and the soft gleam of candlelight reflected in the mirrored panels. The orchestra, comprising fourteen musicians, shall play throughout the evening.
Dinner shall be served at the long tables arranged in the continental fashion. The menu, prepared by the hotel's celebrated chef, runs to seven courses and is accompanied by wines selected from the private cellars of the Ashworth family.
Dancing shall commence after the wedding breakfast and is expected to continue until midnight. Those who know the Charleston are encouraged to demonstrate their proficiency. Those who do not are encouraged to learn. A prize — a bottle of the finest French champagne — shall be awarded to the most spirited pair.
Guests are reminded that this is a formal occasion in the truest sense of that term. Evening dress is not merely requested — it is the spirit of the evening itself. The hosts have prepared a brief guide to period attire for those who wish to honour the decade's conventions precisely.
Your Reply Is Requested
Kindly respond by the first of June, nineteen twenty-six
Dress & Conduct
Guests are expected to arrive in the formal evening dress of the period. The hosts have provided a guide to the decade's conventions below.
Enquiries
For all enquiries regarding accommodation, transport, or matters of protocol, kindly address your correspondence to the family secretary at affairs@ashworth-whitmore.com
"And in the golden light of that June evening,
the decade danced its finest hour."
The Manhattan Courier
Society Pages · Saturday, June 14th, 1926
Ashworth–Whitmore Nuptials
Announced for the Fourteenth of June
By Our Society Correspondent
It is with considerable pleasure that this correspondent announces the forthcoming union of Mr. James Harrington Ashworth, son of Colonel and Mrs. Edmund Ashworth of Park Avenue, and Miss Eleanor Constance Whitmore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whitmore of Newport.
The ceremony is to be solemnised at the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Beaumont on the evening of Saturday, the fourteenth of June, at half past six o'clock. The reception shall follow immediately in the adjoining chambers.
Mr. Ashworth, a graduate of Yale College and a partner in the firm of Ashworth & Crane, is well known in the commercial and social circles of this city. Miss Whitmore, a graduate of Vassar College, has distinguished herself in the charitable works of the Metropolitan Ladies' Society.
The occasion promises to be among the most distinguished social events of the season. Guests are invited to dress in the manner befitting a formal evening of the period — black tie, evening gowns, and the finest of the decade's fashions are expected and warmly encouraged.
"They didn't want a modern wedding.
They wanted the real thing."