TOPICS FOR WOMEN COMING WEDDING

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 101, 26 October 1938, Page 19

TOPICS FOR WOMEN

COMING WEDDING

LORD DAVID DOUGLASHAMILTON

MISS PRUNELLA STACK'S PLANS

(By Air Ma!!, from "The Post's" London Representative.) LONDON, September 9. A notable wedding in October will be that of Lord David Douglas-Hamil-ton, whose brother, Lord Malcolm, was recently in New Zealand, and Miss Prunella Stack. It will take place at Glasgow Cathedral on October 15. Not many friends of the bride will be able to make the journey to Scotland for the ceremony. But they will have the opportunity of wishing .the young couple ■ happiness at a reception to be held in London on October 8, just a week before the wedding. The hostess will be the bridegroom's mother, the Duchess of Hamilton. In arranging the party, the Duchess is following a precedent she created when her eldest son, Lord Clydesdale, married Lady Elizabeth Percy in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. The bride has decided on an allparchment bridal procession. Parchment velvet is her choice for the wedding gown, which is being made on princess lines, and a plain neckline to form a background for a large pearl cross, which used to belong to her mother* Two little girls will carry her five-yard-long train, which is cut in one with the skirt. THE BRIDAL RETINUE. Two grown-up bridesmaids and six little girls will form the retinue. The bridesmaids will be dressed in parchment velvet opening over parchment lace underskirts. 'The child attendants will wear long, high-waisted Empire frocks of parchment tulle. They include four of the Duke of Hamilton's grandchildren—Diana Douglas-Hamil-ton, daughter of Lord Malcolm Doug-las-Hamilton; Sheena and Vora Mackintosh, daughters of Lady Jean Mackintosh; and Jane Drummond-Hay, daughter of Lady Margaret Drum-mond-Hay. The, other two child attendants are Rosemary Boyd and Maureen Savers. Miss Mary Lee Boyd and Miss Cinderella Stack (cousin) will- be the grown-up bridesmaids. Lord Nigel Douglas Hamilton will be best man. Glasgow. Cathedral is a fine Gothic building. Dating from the twelfth century, it -has had an interesting and raried history, and Scott in "Rob Roy" iescribes how the "crafts" of Glasgow iook to arms to defend it from demolition at the hands of the Reformers? n 1578. A NEW ZEAIiANDER'S IDEA. Flowers were taken rrom London to Falkirk for the- wedding of Miss Elizabeth Aitken and Lieutenant-Com-mander lan Robertson;; The ~.bride's bouquet was of antirrhinums and bouquets of gladioli were carried by the eight bridesmaids, who were dressed in silver. The flowers ranged in shade from the. palest of pinks to the deepest and richest of reds. A novel. idea was that the fair-haired maids should have palerpink ;blooms, two auburn-haired girls medium tones, and the brunettes the brilliant. deep red. A New Zealand girl who is working among flowers thought out the scheme and carried it through.