Mrs. Aimee von Hoynigen-Huene of Woolwich, Maine, wife of the late Baron Freiherr Heinrich Nicolai von Hoyningen-Huen, has announced the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Brigitte Anita, to Eliot Studer Peck, son of Mrs. Rankin Peck of Lake Shore drive, and the late Mr. Peck. The bride-elect was graduated from Wheelock College in Boston and since the fall of 1955, has been teaching in the Trombly School. Eliot attended Detroit University School, Amherst College and Michigan State University. A garden wedding is planned for June 21, 1956, in Levesten, the von Hoyningen-Huene country home in Maine. Brigitte has asked her sister Cecilie to be maid of honor; Melville s. Sinn, Eliot's cousin will attend him as best man.

Detroit Free Press 20 May 1956
From Woolwich, Me., comes word of the engagement of Brigitte Anita von Hoyningen-Huene, daughter of Mrs. Freiherr Heinrich Nicolai von Hoyningen-Huene and the late Baron von Hoyningen-Huene, to Eliot Studer Peck, son of Mrs. Rankin Peck of Lake Shore road. Brigitte was graduated from Wheelock Collee. Her fiance attended Detroit University School, Amherst College and Michigan State University. The Von Hoyningen-Huenes relinquished their title some years ago when they became American citizens. The family had to flee their ancestral acres in Germany when the Russians approached. The young couple plans a garden wedding June 21 at the bride's country home in Levsten Maine.

At a ceremony at Levsten Farm, Woolwich, Me., the families of Brigitte Anita von Hoyningen-Huene and Eliot Studer Peck yesterday witnessed the couple's quiet marriage. The farm is the estate of the bride's mother. Along with their mother Mrs. Rankin Peck, of Lake Shore road, the bridegroom's brothers, Rankin P. Peck Jr. and Frank D. Peck were present. The brothers ushered and Melville S. Sinn, a cousin of the bridegroom from Montreal, served as best man.

The bride wore Italian silk in eggshell color, with a tight bodice and full skirt. Heirloom rose point lace trimmed the dress, and formed the veil, worn with a soft felt cap. Moss roses made up the dainty bridal bouquet. Pale blue silk dressed with flared ballerina skirts were born by the bride's sisters, Cecille and Sigrid, attendants. They carried moss roses, duplicating their garland headpieces.

A wedding one dreams about - or perhaps reads in a fairy tale - took place in real life yesterday afternoon when Brigitte Anita von Hoyningen-Huene became the bride ofEliot Studer Peck. In a magnificant setting overlooking the Kennebee River in Woolwich Me., the young couple exchanged their nuptial vows in the garden of the bride's home, "Levsten", a German dialect wood meaning "Dear to Us."

The brides bridegrom is the son of Mrs. Rankin Philip Peck of Lake Shore road, Grosse Pointe, and the late Mr. Peck. Given in marriage by her brother, Christian, Brigitte resembled a blond beauty of the lasat century. Her dress of eggshell antique Italian silk was designed with a full, circular skirt and stunning off-shoulder neckline, fashioned in Biedermeyer style, with a band of very old Venetian rosepointe lace. Her exquisite veil of the same lace was worn softly draped about her head. She carried white moss roses. The lace in both dress and veil was born by her grandmother and her mother at their respective weddings. Attending the bride at the family wedding were her two sisters, Cecile and Sigrid, both wearing ceil blue short-length with flared skirts. They wore moss rose headbands and carried matching flowers in their bouquets.

The bridegroom was attended by his cousin Melville S. Sinn of Montreal, Quebec as best man. Amont the family members present at the wedding and garden reception which followed were the bride's brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Friedrich von Hoyningen-Huene, and another brother Michael. Traveling from Grosse Pointe with the senior Mrs. Peck were Rankin P. Peck Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Peck and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Fisher.

The newlyweds plan a brief wedding trip, after which they'll make their home in Lake Shore road, Grosse Pointe. Early in July they'll travel down East to their summer haven in Bar Harbor, Me. The gracious hostess noted not only for her social entertaining but for her tireless work in community, philanthropie, club and religious projects, plans to greet her guests wearing a waltz-length gown of white imported Swis organdy. Its blue and red embroidery in bodice and bouffant skirt is picked up in matching velvet trim. Friends of the Wilsons always treasure an invitation to Meadow Brook, modeled after an old English Manor, approached by a winding driveway from the gatekeeper's house and set in the midst of hundreds of acres of green, rolling, productive countryside. Scene of many a pleasant gathering in the past, its quiet charm transports one far from the hectic pace of the modern world and connotes the leisurely manner of a past ere.