WEDDING BELLS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 January 1914, Page 2

WEDDING BELLS

MOLONY-PAYNE, Keen, friendly public interest war taken in the wedding at St. Canice's Church last Wednesday of Mr. J. J. Molony, the well-know'n solicitor, to Miss Lucietta Payne, eldest daugiiter of Mr. P. L.' Payne, District Traffic Manager, Westport section, New Zealand Railways. It was a beautiful, sunny morning, and a big section of the fair sex of Westport turned out to witness the ceremony. The church was crowded, and there was V large gathering in Brougham Street. 0:i all sides were heard expressions of hope for the future happiness of the bride and bridegroom. ; The Ven. Archpriest Walshe was the officiating clergyman. , The bride entered the Church on lier father's arm and supported by the bridesmaids, the Misses Gerty and Amy Payrie and Miss Molony. sisters of the bride tvrd bridegroom respectively. Little Miss Lucie Payne, niece of the bride, acted as flower-girl. ■ .-. ■«

Mr. R. Kiely, of Grey mouth, supported the bridegroom as best man." The bride looked lovely in a beantlftl dress of ivory satin charrneuse, trimmed with pearls and silk overlace, with-a train lined with 'shell-pink satin.' Her veil, surmounted by a wreath of orange blossoms, was the one worn by her mother on the occasion of her wedding. . • '.-■' The chief bridesmaid, Miss Gerte Payne looked very attractive in a pink s:it;n charrneuse dress veiled with ninon rnd trimmed with pink rosebuds. The ski it was draped, and worn over silk hose,'j v,d Grecian shoes to match. She wore a lace and net hat trimmed with satin ribborn and pink rosebuds.

The other two bridesmaids—Miss Molony and Miss Amy Payne—were not outshone by the principal, and also locked charming in similar costumes carried out in pale bine. . >

The three bridesmaids carried basMs ' of pink hydrangeas and asparagus fern, I and wore gold bangles with olivines and ' pearls, the gifts of the bridegroom. The brdegroom's gift to his bride *ai a gold bangle mounted wth diamonds • Mrs. Payne, the bride's mother, wi tj a grey, brocaded frock with blackfnlwri ■■'■ ed hat. I 1%

After the ceremony was concluded, the bridal party adjourned to the residence of the bride's parents to part .kft of the wedding breakfast, after wh ; •. the newly-married couple left by special motor for Reefton, en route for Clt' .- church, on which occasion the bride f 'm

looked charming in a saxe-blue costume with a travelling coat of black and wl ite check, with pale blue revers, and a h.'b of saxe-blue straw, with lancer pie e.

Numerous friends showed their esb-m for Mr. and Mrs. Molony by the number and value of the wedding presents.