BEAUTIFUL SETTING

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 18

BEAUTIFUL SETTING

WEDDING AT HERETAUNfcA

BRIDE WEARS SPANISH LACE

(From "The Post's" Hutt Valley

' Representative.) Two well-known families were united yesterday by the marriage of I-'ibel Katherine, daughter of Mrs. K. A. Young, Heretaunga, and the late Mr. Alex. Young, to William Brittain, son of Mrs. F. B. Lowes and the late Mr. Lowes, of Eketahuna. The ceremony took place at St. John's Church, Trerrtham, which was beautiful^ decorated for "le occasion with bowls of pastel-tinted hydrangeas and pink belladonna lilies. The service was conducted by the Rev. N. E. Winhall. The bride, who was escorted by her brother, Mr. T. Young, wore a gown of wihite Spanish lace over georgette, the softly draped bodice being gathered into a high Empire waist and the heart-shaped neck-line finished with a turquoise brooch. Long sleeves, fitting closely from elbow to wrist were pointed over the hands and finished with tiny buttons, while the graceful skirt, designed on slim-fitting -lines in front, fell in soft folds behind to form a long oval train. A matching tulle veil was worn over the face and finished with a wreath of orange blossom and lilies, and the bride carried an exquisite sheaf of white carnations and roses. FOUR BRIDESMAIDS. The four bridesmaids, Miss Catherine Young, Miss Jose Hosking (Masterton), Miss Penelope Blundell, and Miss Nancy Morrison (Wairarapa), wore dainty frocks of ice-blue chiffon, with V-shaped necklines, the bodices softly tucked on the shoulders and gathered into high pointed ceintures. The soft puff sleeves were balanced by full flowing skirts, and the quartet carried charming Victorian posies of pink roses and carnations. But for the short wide skirt, the frock of the flower-girl, little Janet Young, was a replica of the bridesmaids. Mr. Paul Page (Eketahuna) was best man. The groomsmen were Messrs. Walter White, Norman Beetham, and V. Tripe (Wairarapa), and Messrs. D. Young and G. Lewis were ushers at the church. MANY GUESTS. After the wedding Mrs. Young entertained the guests at a large reception at her home in Barton Road, Heretaunga. Mrs. Young was wearing a model gown of gentian blue mosscrepe patterned with a delicate lace design in black. Her picture • hat was of fine velours to tone, with a blue ostrich feather sweeping across the front and a matching veil finishing the back. She carried a bouquet of deep red roses. Mrs. Lowes, who assisted her in receiving the guests, was frocked in black, her bouquet of pasteltinted flowers standing out in effective 1 contrast. The long drawing-room, floored and panelled in native woods, provided a perfect foil for tha lovely floral decorations of blue delphiniums, pink, blue, and mauve hydrangeas and pink spindleberry which wesre arranged in tall urns against the walls and clustered about the rnaaitel-shelf. Pink' carnations and delicate maidenhair fern were used with charming effect on the bridal table over which swung a,wedding bell exquisitely designed in hydrangeas of soft blue, tones. The sole toast, "the bride and bridegroom," was proposed by Mr. J. Huil, an old friend of the family LOVELY AUTUMN PROSPECT. From the drawing-rotom many of the guests passed to wide glassed veran dah and the grassy terrace overlook ing garden and hills. In the foreground sloping lawns running down to the stream below were aflame with shrubs and massed foliage in every autumn tint of coppery gold, and scar-1 let, while the green links beyond merg-1 ing into the bush-clad hills were shrouded with a thisck Scotch mist which was too welcome to be regretted even by the wedding party. In the early evenimg Mr. and Mrs. Lowes left by car, the latter travelling in a frock and short tailored jacket of storm-blue angora w/ith navy hat and accessories. !

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