Faith Robbins Wed To Yale Graduate
Married: June 6, 1953

New York Times, June 7, 1953 [also PDF]

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FAITH ROBBINS WED TO YALE GRADUATE

Finch Alumna and Frederick Donald Wiss Married at Short Hills Ceremony

Special to The New York Times.

SHORT HILLS, N. J., June 6—The marriage of Miss Faith Annabelle Robbins;daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Dudley Robbins of this place, to Frederick Donald Wiss, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman F. Wiss, also of Short Hills, took place here, this afternoon in Christ Protestant Episcopal Church.

The Rev. Herbert H. Cooper performed the ceremony. A reception was held in the home of the bride.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a gown of Italian silk taffeta fashioned with a fitted bodice with a sweetheart neckline adorned with alencon lace, long pointed sleeves and a bouffant skirt ending in a long train.

Her fingertip-length veil of silk tulle was attached to a crown of seed pearls and she carried a Bible, which belongs to her grandmother, with a marker of white orchids and lilies of the valley.

Miss Nancy A. Seaman of Summit was maid of honor. The Misses Mary Kay Cooper of Short Hills, and Janice E. Phillips of New York were bridesmaids.

Kenneth B. Wiss of this city, was his brother's best man. The ushers were John-Dudley Robbins, a brother of the bride; Holmes Bailey of Washington, D. C., William Betteridge of New York, Jess M. Johns of Burbank, Calif., and Norman F. Wiss Jr. of Livingston, another brother of the bridegroom.

Mrs. Wiss was graduated from Kent Place School in Summit, and Finch College in New York. Her husband was graduated from the Choate School and Yale University.