LORD GRANARD'S SPLENDID WEDDING.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 50, 27 February 1909, Page 15

LORD GRANARD'S SPLENDID WEDDING.

EiSRC-TPEDS M3SS BEATHftICE MIIiIiS3N ' HEW YORK. Splendid elinplMty marked, rthe nmt<4< In New York Oα Thursday, January 14, of the Earl of Gnuiard to Miss Beatrice Mills (cays en EnjjJitfli exchange). At the same time the union, which baa been the /*hipr event of New York's eoeta.l season, mis Specially marked by tile smagrrJflcence c£ the presents received the bride oitt bridegroom. Tie ceremony was performed- Iα the ball-' ■room on the second floor of Mt. (Mills' New York mansion, Fifth-ivenne and' Sltty-nJnth-streeit, * house, undetadhod, of iflTe storeys, taiA bn&t of l>r»wji sandstone, Titie ballroom, approached by a. mahle marile stairway , , end decorated in the etyJe cif eeirij; IxraU Quinse, is ewnewhat- email—-eibbbt 60ft t>7 40ft—and itor the guests there were 200 gMt chairs, each mtrrtbered, and the totra 3M&t& down the ceutre by a. oanoME alste. "'■ ; ' • ;■ The bridegroom- entered the •ballroom from the adjacent house of 3i is. Matarln etone, grandmother of «he bride, and took hie place laeaJdo the bride Iα 'front of an altar under as Jkiwer of flowers, Blstor/' Cueack, iwlth very ehoxt ami simple cereinoir/, jprbiiouQCtaiK them Bcto ami wife. The musical portions of trie eerrlee were Tendered by -the ohotr and- trtttoged oreheav tra. of. St. Thwnae , Church,- which plaje •tlhe same pert In "the BocSal iHe of' News York as St. George's, H*no7«r-*quaTe, doe« %n itonStin. TEc Srlde word a dreea ef em'boesed whltoVelvet on a whte eatln gToimd, with a epe«ial **motslnK Rloriee" design to long lines running <tihe entire length of the gown. Th« trimming waa >ace <rf Seize deeSeaV and long lace sleeves and a tece yoke edM|j to the efteet. TJie trmin ivar ever three and a-hafr yards long. IA. superb lace Tefl "was worn to match tne drees. The part of the that coyered *he face had a email floral paS+ern, which broadened ont towftrfe the .nottom of the reil. The four cfilld txtiemaeiSß vPOTei dhacm* Ing frocks of white eaitta trimmed with elWer, and had mob cape of iriilte iac* instead ot ihats. ■-i-he dlamoaid, c*'d, and slrrer jpeesi-nt* •which the br.ia* has ceccjred from , her American, friends "represent a -walne of #jme JJSuOO. It Is also etattd thet Mr. Kexiw <X MUle, erandTatSier of the fcrMe, preaentee her wltjj a cheque tfor £%000, and jvro■nlsetl her a. London reatldeDCS. which ahe it to seioct at lh«a!' Jetoore is ttm coatee of the next twelve moat**. S3n total -nine of the pßsente Iβ eatd to £100,000. ■Mr. Alfred Vasderbllt Bare a .pair of/ large jrleroefl sliver dlab«e ft* *he centre «f the table; Mrs. Frederick VecierMlt tne«ktoce of jMrtohed pearle; &aB. Mr. end Mis. Bobe* Goelet en Oriental raa* of iwooterftjl betnty and iworkmajislhlp, Olhere wer« 4o»ens of fane, exquisitely painted, BtoßMl (monnted wMb a "white cetrich feather oa JeweOed sttcka, otbera «f eld BpeJrteh Edgn, iSeanafolly wJfli atlcta of eet wtth jewels. After the Treading, £era and l»dj* Qraaawd to BUatfWfaaaa, oa «*' BadwA Hirer, wfam «he MAXIa lmrie.a'«M| eoontrr e»ta*e. In • iretk titer wip salt for Baioya, and efter • brief Tteit to Baday ■win seaien KenOcn fe TVbroaejf, to tkna ft* «he opening oC iP*TliiNm*nt, in wMb irhleh th« brM«er««JH, a* His HiaJ«av tj*a M«at« of 4te ®«cc, ba» eetatonullWel. tettefi. . . . > .1