WEDDING

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23477, 4 November 1941, Page 2

WEDDING

4 DAMS—-THOMSON' A wedding of much interest, not only to Christchurch residents, but to many friends in Auckland and Dunedin, was celebrated at St. Luke’s Church on Saturday afternoon. The bride was Lyndsey Gordon, younger daughter of Dr. and Mrs Arthur Thomson, Montreal street, and the bridegroom was Flying Officer Geoffrey George Davis, of Harewood, elder son of Mr and Mrs C. C. Davis, “Ferndale,” Avopsida, and grandson of thfe Rev. Gideon Smalea, a pioneer missionary who landed at the Bay of Islands in 1840 and wag present at the signing of the .TrOaty of Waitangi. The Church was effectively decorated with arum lilies, some of which were sent from the West Coast for the occasion. The vicar, the Rev, I. L. Richards, pert formed the ceremony, and Mr Alan Hewson was organist. The bride, who was escorted by her father, wore a beautiful trained gown of white and silver brocade, made with heart-shaped neckline, and her lovely veil of Honiton lace, lent by her cousin, Mrs M. Grace, of Sydney, was held with a cluster of orange blossom, which had been worn by the bridegroom's mother at her wedding. She carried a bouquet of white roses, lily of the valley, and real orange blossom which had ;bden‘ brought" from Auckland by the bridegrooms, aunt. Miss Joan- Hay, y Who attended as bridesmaid,: w.Qre..a ibrig frrick of cmlean blue chiffon and a wide-brimmed straw hat tb 'friatch. ’A note,'of contrast was introduced in her bouquet of fuchsias and’ sweet' peas. Mr-Malcolm Davis, the bridegroom’s brother, ' Was best man, and the ushers were Mr .T. Rutherford and Flying Officer J. Edwards. After the ceremony Dr. and Mrs Thomsop entertained About 160 guests, including many officers of the Air Force, at a reception held at ‘‘Ferndale,’’ the' home of the bridegroom’s parents, Mrs Thomson wore a frock of cobalt blue, crepe romaine" arid hat to match,' arid her-.shoulder' spray was of red roseS and lily, of the valley. Mrs Davis wore .frock of Arizona biuv crepe, hand-braided, a fur cape, arid a French' hat to .match her dregs, trimm^J'with tulips', replicas ot the larger tulips In; her’ bmupet-.'-For : travelling, the bride: wore a-grey plaid suit, Jightly overchecked with red, a red jumper, and small red hat.