IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY IN LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 259, 1 November 1932, Page 11

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY IN LONDON.

MISS JACQUELINE NATHAN MARRIED. The wedding of Miss Jacqueline Nathan, daughter of Mr. and Mre. David Xathan, of Manurewa, Auckland, to Jfr. Arthur Sebag-Montefiore, son of the late Mr. Robert Sebag-Montefiore, who •lied in the Avar, took place om .September 28 in the New West End Synagogue, St. Petersburgh Place, London." The street in which, the synagogue stands was thronged from end to end,with beautiful cars,-whose owners ■ were-.get-ting out rather than wait their turk in the queue. The first impression of .'&he interior wae its spaciousness and tihe beauty of the grey-marble pillars •■with their incisions of golden Hebrew lettering. A larga circular pulpit .stood between the two doorways, large enough to hold nearly a dozen people, and it was in this pulpit in full view of everyone that the bridegroom signed the Ketubah, or marriage contract, before the bride arrived, and here that they both signed the civil. register afterwards. The Ketubah'is signed in the presence of the bride's father, and two fvitnesses, who aleo sign;

The bridegroom, after completing the ceremony, came down, to:,the nuptial canopy,-which,stood in the middle of the floor, and was decorated -with yellow chrysanthemums and cape gooseberries. The cape gooseberries were an excellent and original touch for wedding. The best man, Mr; James Monteflore, handed his brother the ditional tallith or tasselled ehawl, which looked strange with the silk hat, for the men never uncover in the synagogue in the midst of bridal garments. Music played a great part in the ceremonial, and the bride entered the building to the strains of a psalm of rejoicing which swept us back across the centuries along dim corridors of troubled but triumphant existence; for all the chequered history of lerael is in their music. The bride looked very young and sweet, and the smile the bridegroom gave her as she appeared transfigured his very serious face. Her dress was of flesh-tinted lace and marquisette, with a epray of arum lilies falling from the waist, and on her head a narrow wreath of the same flowers to- keep her veil in place. Five little bridesmaids and four little [iiiges were her attendants, the girls in palest pink organdie with a delicate shade of blue bonnets, and the small boys in suits of dull -pink satin; with lace jabots and berets. ,-i '<-

The attendant l ' names were as follow: The Misses jielene Oulman, Rosemary Sebag-Montefiore, Annette Weil and the Misses Hazel and Myrtle SebagMontefiore.. The pages, were Master John Nathan, the bride'e brother, Master Bruce Tuck, Master John J. SebagMontefiore and .Master Oliver JesseL Under the Canopy. When the bride arrived at the canopy she was supported by her father and mother. Mrs. Nathan, in'a soft raspberry shade j of velvet with an ostrich feather curling round the crown of her large velvet hat, stood on her right hand, while the bridegroom's mother and a male relative etood on .his .left. .The three officiating clergy, aHEhek Rev. p.. Bueno de Mesquito, the TRef!" Rodriguez Pereira and the Rev. D. A. Jeesrum, completed the square, wearing the tallith in the same manner as the bridegroom. The celebrant, in giving the marriage bleesinge, takes a cup of wine, which is afterwards drunk by the bride and bridegroom. The bridegroom then shows the wedding ring to the witnesses and placing it on the'forefinger of the bride'e right hand says, "Behold, thou art wedded to me by thie , ring, according to the law of Moses and Israel." This was followed by "the addreee in English, in which the young couple were exhorted in turn, and then were reminded that they now • shared a name which was not only honoured and beloved in their own ancient community but throughout the world for devotion to the cause of humanity. The cere-' mony concludes with the celebrant :taking another glass of wine, and, before offering it to the bride,;and bridegroom, reciting the Seven Blessings. After they have partaken of the wine orice more a glass is brought and the bridegroom breaks it. Then the bridal party departe to sign the register while the bridal march is played in the. orthodox manner. A reception was afterwards held at 2, Palace Green, lent by Mrs. Chas. Sebag-Montefiore. The bridegroom's mother wore beige crepe de chine, brown velvet hat and sable cape. The bride's going-away dreeSj for a honeymoon to be spent in Italy and France, was tomato coloured crepe de chine, coat in cloth to match, velvet hat, shoes and stockings to match. Among gueste from New Zealand were Mr. Lawrence Nathan, Mrs. Cyril Xathan, the Countess of Orford, Lady Gillies, Miss Gillies, Sir Reginald and Lady Tuck, Mise Maclean, Mrs. Douglas and Mrs. Reginald Friend. .