WEDDING PAGEANT

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 94, 22 April 1933, Page 18

WEDDING PAGEANT

RUSH TO SEE MISS WHICHAM

It is a long time since a fashionable wedding in London drew such a crowd ,of., sightseers as filled Bi'ompton Oratory, when Miss Margaret Whigham was married to Mr. Charles Sweeny. The beauty of the vast church, the warm perfume of flowers, a group or' bridesmaids in silvery dresses with red roses on their hair, and women pressing forward with admiration jvrit large on their taces —all this created an atmosphere which affected many people. . The wedding was remarkable for two things—the friendly admiration of the immense crowds of sightseers for tho bride, and the extreme beauty of the marriage ceremony and Nuptial Mass. 1 Miss Whigham t the only daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. George Hay Whigham, of Queen's Hill, Ascot, came out in 1930, and was immediately acclaimed the most beautiful debutante of her year. She was feted and entertained for all through her first season, and was seen at every,social function of importance. No charity ball was considered complete unles she took part in it, and-no charity matinee a success unless she was a programme seller. Her betrothal to Mr. Charles Sweeny was announced towards the end of last year. ' Mr. Sweeny is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ebbert Sweeny, of Grosvenor House, -Park Lane, and is of American descent. He is a well-known amateur golfer, who has played with the Prince of Wales on many occasions. While he was up at Oxford ho captained.tho Dark Blues, and played in three intcr-'Va'r-sity golf matches against Cambridge. He has now taken up a business career in the City: 1 Miss Whigham adopted tho- Roman Gatholic faith—which is that of her fiance —and Father Woodlock, the famous preacher and' lecturer, received her into the Boman Catholic Church ten (\ays_ before her marriage at which he officiated. The, ceremony was extraordinarily impressive, and its effect upon a tremendous crowd which had congregated in tho Oratory was very striking. STRUGGLING CROWD. More than half the seats in the building were filled by women and girls who had drifted in with the guests, and down tho side aisles were massed hundreds of others, content to stand for an hour or more so long as they could see the bridal procession. When the service began the impression was that of a seething mass of people, pressing this way and that, talking, laughing, clambering over seats, struggling nil the time for a better point of vantage ' Before the wedding the traffic from Knigbtsbridgc up Brompton Road to the Oratory was disorganised for more than an hour. Tactful traffic police did their utmost to deal with the cars of guests as expeditiously as possible without holding up omnibuses and commercial vehicles for an unreasonable time. But their efforts were sadly impeded by the hundreds of people who gathered outside tho church. The railed-in churchyard was packed, and peoplo stood shoulder to shoulder inside tho Oratory, At tho back of, the seats. When the huge central doora were flung open to allow the bride and bridegroom to leave, the crowds surged forward, and it was only with difficulty that Mr. Sweeny and his bride were able to enter their car. Out in the road, they wero caught up in tho traffic, and men and women Tushed forward to catch a glimpse of the bride in her beautiful satin gown with its jasmine embroideries in pearls. Guests suffered a like fate, and many of them did not arrive at the reception until a full hour after the bride and bridegroom.

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