SMITH—VAUGHAN.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1939, Page 18

SMITH—VAUGHAN.

* The wedding was recently solemnised at the Basilica, Hill Street, of/Beryl Frances, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Vaughan, Wellington, and Gordon Leslie, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Smith, Brooklyn. The Rev. Father D. Nolan performed the ceremony.

The bride, who was escorted by her father, wore a frock of brocaded pearl satin, cut on slim lines, the fish-tail train falling from a panel at the waistline. The fitting bodice was relieved with a peaked neckline, and a small pearl brooch. Her embroidered veil (lent by a friend), which was worn over the face during the ceremony, was held in place by a coronet of orange blossom. She carried a shower bouquet of lilies and lily-of-the-valley.

The bridesmaids, Miss Audrey yon Keisenberg (cousin of the bride) and Miss Audrey Smith (sister of <, the bridegroom), were dressed in apple green and- pale pink broderie anglais organza respectively, the frocks being cut on slimrfitting lines, with heartshaped necks, 'and the skirts falling into full flares from the knees. They wore haloes of apple blossom with shoulder length veils, and carried bouquets of tinted tulipsi

Mr. C. M. (Dick) Ongley was best man, and Mr. O.W. Vaughan (brother of the bride) groomsman.

On leaving the church the bride was presented with a silver horseshoe by Master Peter Sander.

Mrs. W. Vaughan afterwards received the guests at the residence of the bride's aunt, Mrs. F. E. Ball, Kelburn. When Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Smith left for a tour of the North Island the bride, was wearing a model frock of cyclamen georgette and a dove grey coat cut on military lines, with a cyclamen turban. Her silver fox fur was the gift of the bridegroom.