A MATCH-SELLER'S WEDDING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 179, 29 July 1905, Page 4

A MATCH-SELLER'S WEDDING.

One of the most popular weddings of the season was solemnised at St. Mar* garet's, Westminster, yesterday (bays a London journal of May Istb), when Mr Archibald Mackirdy, fche U.S. Conacl at Muscat (Persia) was married to Miss Olive Christian Malvery. The bride's friends were so numerous that hundreds were unable to get even as far as the porch. The Bishop of London, assisted by Canon Hensley Henaon, performed the ceremony, while the Bishop of Bombay gave the bride away, and Captain Nelson Ward, R.N., supported the bridegroom as " beat man." The bride had only arisen from a bed of sickness the day beforo, so it is scarcely to be wondered at that the strain and nervous tension of the ocoasion brought about a momentary collapse jast after the ceremony was performed.

Miss Malvery is a native of India, and for the past five years has been living in London and studying the habits of the " submerged tenth." As a wanderer ahe has tramped tbe streets, spent her night on the Embankment and in Trafalgar Square, sold matches in the Strand, and shelled peas in Covent Garden—and it was the friends she had made in tkese mnltitndinons adventures that flocked in their han« dreds to a "real West End" wedding.

The bridal gown was Oriental in its splendour, the soft whit* satin, trimmed wish silver, being entirely veiled with dew-bespangled gauze. The bouquet was Occidentally simple—seven roses tied with silver gauze, the gift of seven Hoxton flower-girls whom the bride had befriended.

There was only one bridesmaid, but she was supported by twelve little Hoxton flower-sellers, dressed in simple muslin frocks and sun bonnets.

After the ceremony some 1500 of the guests wended their way to Caxton Hill, where two huge wedding cakes (one made by the bridegroom's mother) were out and distributed. A reception of 2000 match-sellers was subsequently held.