The Nicolas–Janet Liyan Wedding

There is nothing like weddings for the surging up of the spirit of youth and love. At weddings, eyes wander over faces brimming with happiness and good cheer, hearts quiver with gladness and delight, and autumn becomes like a spring of everlasting freshness...

...On the tenth of last November, the young Nicolas Najib Liyan stood with his sweet bride, Janet George Saba, in the Greek Catholic Cathedral of Mar Elias, receiving, amid a flood of joy, the blessing of Their Graces Bishops Ni'ma and Yuwakim, attended by a choir of chanting priests in a reverent atmosphere of supplications and candles...

The cathedral was packed with hundreds of guests, official and civilian personalities, and the splendor of the wedding showed in the sumptuous decorations and the baskets of lilies and roses, placed with great taste along both sides of the aisles and in every corner...

The lovely bride, with her radiant smile and her slender figure, seemed the most beautiful of the lilies — in her original satin gown, the work of the Italian dressmaker "Ricca." After receiving the congratulations, the young bride and groom slipped away... perhaps to a delightful, blissful seclusion in the shade of the holy Cedars of the Lord...

The good wishes of "The Woman's Voice" to the newlyweds, Nicolas and Janet, and our special congratulations to the members of their two families — above all the groom's father, Mr. Najib Liyan, chief of the bureau of the Ministry of Information.