Ashley Turner, bride-elect of Ames Barnett, was entertained at a miscellaneous shower on Saturday morning, October 7, in the Mary Callaway Burton Fellowship Hall of the First Baptist Church.

Hostesses for the occasion were Judy Coxwell, Rebecca Pollock, Vonice Wells, Teresa Wells, Susan Pope, Patsy Winn, Rosalyn Adams, Carol Bailey, Angela McGill, Tara Townsend, Debbie McLeod, Kay Nelms, Mary Newsome and Donna Hardy.

For the occasion the bride-elect chose a shimmering silver grey sleeveless sweater and grey textured slacks. She was presented a corsage of pink Alstroemeria lilies.

Ferns on white pedestals flanked the entrance to the fellowship hall. Inside a Victorian theme was used in decorating. Tables were covered in rose pink cloths and skirted in white lace.

As guests arrived they signed the register at a table decorated with a white pillar candle surrounded with pink roses and Alstroemeria lilies. Also on the table were a framed shower invitation and a photo album, brought by the bride-elect, that featured the couple's engagement pictures. Behind the tables was a banking of ferns in white columns.

Ferns were also used around the room and framed the area where a Victorian settee and matching chairs provided seating for the bride-elect to greet her guests and open her gifts.

Centering the room were round tables in a cloverleaf design with a center raised setting atop which was an elegant silver tiered epergne filled with pink roses and Alstroemeria lilies with assorted greenery. Cutglass votives and hurricanes also graced the table topped with swirls of white lace and gossamer.

From the table guests enjoyed cream cheese crescent bars, ham biscuits, sausage balls, cheese straws, coconut-orange balls, baked bacon-wrapped pecan dates and sliced apples with brickle dip.

Punch was served from a nearby round table dressed in the same rose and lace design. Gossamer swirled with tiny white lights and accented with plumosus fern banked the punch bowl. Votives also accented this table.

Another table in the same design was centered with a silver pillar candelabrum amid swirls of plumosus fern.

The hostesses presented Miss Turner a cutglass pedestal and domed cake plate that was displayed with her other gifts at tables covered in white.

One hundred thirty guests were invited. Special guests attending included the bride-elect's mother, Connie Turner of Lawrenceville; the bridegroom's mother, Nancy Barnett of Washington; great-aunts, Kathleen Beggs and Betty McGill, and cousin, Cherry Rowland, all of Lincolnton.