PRESQUE ISLE, Aug. 3 [1945]--Miss Nannabelle Gray, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Granville C. Gray of this City, became the bride of Ensign William C. Carter, son of Mrs. Mary Caswell Carter and the late Prof. Benjamin E. Carter. of Waterville, in a early morning ceremony at the bride's home Sunday.
The ceremony took place at 2 a. m., after Ensign Carter, on a short leave from his Navy meteorological post in Chicago, had arrived by plane an hour earlier. The couple left immediately following the ceremony on a return night to Chicago.
The double ring service was read by the Rev. E. Milton Grant of the Congregational church, in the presence of more than 100 guests, friends of the couple and the families.
The bride was given in marriage by her father, Judge Granville C. Gray. She was gowned in white satin with sweetheart neckline and long train. She wore fingertip veil and a bride's cap of pearls. She carried a shower bouquet of rubrum lilies and sweet peas.
The bridesmaid, Miss Raye Winslow of Boston, a college classmate of the bride wore white silk lace. Her flowers were pink sweet peas and gypsola.
The bride's mother wore aqua crepe, appliqued with embroidery. The bridegroom's mother was gowned in light blue lace. Both mothers wore corsages of sweetheart roses.
The best man was Ensign Clark Carter, brother of the bridegroom. He is to leave for foreign service soon, and was on special pass to attend the ceremony.
Both the bridegroom and his best man wore the white dress uniform of Ensigns on the United States Naval forces.
The Gray home was specially decorated for the wedding by Mrs. Cecil Frutchie and Mrs. A. W. Higgins, with an arch of tamarack and hydrangea flowers.
Miss Louise Rand played the wedding march and incidental music.
Miss Connie Hallett of Presque Isle was in charge of the guest book and Miss Phyllis Allen of Caribou was in charge of the gift table.
Assisting in receiving were Mrs. Carl Weick. Mrs. F. S. Walker, and Mrs. Ernest Loane.
The bride and bridegroom cut their wedding cake with the bridegroom's saber, following the ceremony.
The Misses Margaret Graves, Marjorie Weick, Phyllis Clark. Pauline Allen, Lillian Blanchard
and Beth Trundy assisted in serving.
Leaving on the early morning plane for Chicago, the bride was attired in a mineral blue traveling suit with dark blue hat and matching accessories.
Mrs. Carter was graduated from Presque Isle High school and Colby college, and was the head of the department Of Science at Washburn High school until her marriage.
Ensign Carter, now doing special work at the Navy Chicago Meteorology Station, as a graduate of Colby college and took his M. A. in mathematics at the University of Chicago, after a year as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in England.
They will be at home in the Dorset Apartments, 5419 Harper avenue, Chicago, after August 3rd.
THE BRIDE CUTS THE CAKE--Assisted by the bridegroom, Ensign William C. Carter, U. S. N., Mrs. Carter, formerly Miss Nannabelle Gray, cuts the bride's cake following their recent early-morning wedding in Presque Isle. Mrs. Carter is the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Granville C. Gray of Presque Isle, and Ensign Carter is the son of the late Professor Benjamin E. Carter and Mrs. Mary Caswell Carter, of Waterville.