A celebration of the marriage of Elly Powell Lamb and William Cameron Wurm was held at half past six o’clock in the evening on June 1 at First Baptist Church of Jackson followed by a reception at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Christopher Lamb of Jackson. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Adrian Reeder of Pontotoc, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Luther Elbert Lamb Jr. of Jackson. The bridegroom is the son of Dr. and Mrs. William Van Wurm of Ocean Springs. He is the grandson of Mr. William Gary Wurm and the late Mrs. Wurm of Abington, Va., and the late Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Maxwell Newman of Clinton.
The ceremony was officiated by Pastor Chip Stevens of First Baptist Church.
The bridal party included Emily Taff Jones, maid of honor; Warner Elise Lamb and Emerson Rose Lamb, sisters of the bride; Delaney Lauren Butts, Sarah Ellen Colvert, Katherine Elizabeth Dickson, Elizabeth Eads Fisackerly, Cara Belle Garner, Della Berre Jones, Mary Margaret Mitchell, Breana Delaney Norton, and Anne Clark Wood, bridesmaids; Meredith Lynne Grantham and Anne Kate Word, program attendants; and proxy bride Abigail Claire Stricklin.
The bridesmaids wore silk, champagne pink gowns, accented with a knotted bow across one shoulder. They carried a smaller version of the bride’s bouquet of pale pink peonies, blush, orange and coral roses with lime hydrangeas.
Groomsmen included best man Caleb Newman Wurm, brother of the groom, Andrew Furr Bowie, William John Evans, Coleman Davis Frye, Parker Eastland Gleason, Robert Gage Morgan, Braxton Lewis Parker, Morgan Jack Steeland, and David Grant Thaggard. They wore black tuxedos accented with boutonnieres of pink and coral.
The bride wore a strapless mermaid style gown with a modern lace pattern. It featured a lace train and matching lace long sleeve topper. The bride opted to forgo the lace topper and had a custom tulle wrap made instead, created from the bride’s vision. The wrap cascaded down the back of the gown, shielding the deep sheer lace V in the back of the gown for the ceremony and was removed afterwards.
She wore the original blusher veil and pearl headpiece worn by the bridegroom’s mother at her wedding. Her halo headpiece was refashioned into a headband, which the bride wore both during the ceremony and later, at the reception. The bridal bouquet was wrapped with a bow from the bride’s mother’s wedding gown.
The couple exchanged vows in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church. The ceremony began with instrumental classical selections from a string quartet. The mothers were seated to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Edelweiss. The wedding party processed to Bach’s Air on a G String. The bride was escorted down the aisle by her father to Clarke’s Trumpet Voluntary, played on the organ by Patsy Simpson. The ceremony featured a duet of Ritter’s The Lord Bless You and Keep You, performed by her friends, Lawson and Meriwether Marchetti, accompanied by the string quartet.
The reception was held at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Guests were treated to three cakes. The bride had a traditionally five-tiered white almond cake, while the bridegroom chose two cakes: one three-tiered red velvet and the other, a two-tiered coconut cake. Live-event artist, Wyatt Waters, was commissioned to paint the couple’s first dance.
A buffet dinner was offered, with guests enjoying grilled redfish, shrimp, sushi, brisket, beef sliders, pulled bourbon pork, and chicken pasta salad as well as various pass around items. Late night snacks were the bride’s favorite college after-ballgame food and quesadillas.
On the eve of the wedding, the bridegroom’s parents hosted a cocktail hour and seated rehearsal dinner at The Fairview Inn. On Saturday morning, the bride’s godmother, Leigh Ann Ross, hosted the bridal party at her home in the Country Club of Jackson for a salon party.
Following a wedding trip to Italy, the couple is at home in Madison, where the bridegroom is a portfolio manager for First Commercial Bank and the bride is an account executive at Maris, West & Baker.
