WEDDING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 111, 10 August 1925, Page 4

WEDDING.

AGAR—SULLIVAN. A popular wedding took place thi morning in the Hastings Catholic Church, when Mollv Sullivan, second daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Sullivan, Riverslea road, Hastings, was united in matrimony, by Father A. F. McDonald, with William George Agar, second son of Mr C. Agar, Double Bay. Sydney. The bride, who wa« given away b\ her father, made a charming picture in white pan velvet with ninon sleeves, embroidered with silver and finished at the waist with orange blossoms. She wore a coronet of pearls. f unmounted by a beautiful veil, and she bore a sheaf of Madonna lillies and maiden hair fern.

She had in her train, as bridesmaids, Miss May Hcrlihy, who was bewitchingly attired in apr’eot georgette, with insets of accordeon pleat on skirt, and finished with a white posy on the shoulder, wearing a hat of silver tissue, with flowers to tone, and carrying a bouquet of pale violets and maiden hair fern, with streamers in accord; and Miss Margaret Cassin, daintily vested in turban green overdress finished in silver lace, completed in a bow on hip, wearing a silver crinoline hat with flowers to harmonise, and carrying a bouquet of snr’ng flowers, with streamers to suit. Each of the bridesmaids wore a set of pearls, gifts from the bridegroom. Mr Dan Begley discharged the duties of best man and Mr Joseph Lynch acted as groomsman. At the conclusion of the service, the bridal party left the church to the strains of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March and a pretty and picturesque incident marked the passage of the bride down the aisle, when Master Noe] Evans came forward and hung a horse shoe on her arm. Subsequently the parents of the bride held a reception at the Olympia Cabaret, where the wedd ng guests were received by the bride’s mother, dressed in a smart brown costume, witl hat to tone, and carrying a bouquet of violets and maiden hair fern. Mr Gilbert McKay. M.P., who presided at the wedding breakfast, proposed the toast of the “Bride and Bridegroom,” which was honoured with brimming glasses, and the happv voting couple received the hearty good wishes and the sincere congratulations of all present. Amongst the many and va uab’e presents received by the bride were a set of carvers, from the Catholic choir of which she. is a valued member and a silver service, from the Children of Mary, of which society she is also a member. The bride presented the bridegroom with a set of military br”«hes. Mr and Mrs Agar proceed to Taupo for a few days, before sailing for their future home in Sydney, the br de wearing as a going-awav dress a cinnamon coloured brocaded travell ng cos. tume, with silk hat to.match, and wearing a set of fox furs ,a gift from her husband. The bride, her parents and her family are widely known and esteemed in this district, where the bride is he’d in general affection t.v all who know her, because of her grac’ous. k’-hd.y and generous disposition, and the good wishes of everybody go out to her. and to her husband, in the new life they have entered upon.