Wedding

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6677, 2 August 1928, Page 11

Wedding

SMITH HOUSEMAN. When Miss Agnes Houseman, daughter of -Mr,, .and Mrs. Carl Houseman, Linton Strict, Palmerston North, was married lasi' evening, at All . Saints’ Church' to Mr. William Smith/ s'oji ! of Mr. and Mrs. W/ Smith, HokoWhitu, Palmerston JTor.th, sho wove a dainty picture frock, o^/white.. taSTeta,s made in early Victorian,. with the skirt scalloped on'to silk net hem. Her veil was fashioned ;of: Brussels net with ai silver tissue hap.'trimmed, with pearls and sprays -of ''ortmgo blossom. It'was lent .for the occasion by Mrs. Holgcrson, of r ; Wanganui. A bouquet of white flowers with' touches of pink completed the bride 'a dharming toilette. Two bridesmaids wore in attendance. The chief, , Miss Helena Houseman, sister of the bride wore an early Vic: torian frock Of eau-dc-nir taffefas and silver lace, with a crinoline hat to tone, trimmed with a water lily on the brim. She carried pink , roses. Miss Myrtle Smith, sisteribf the bridegroom, was; frockcd in cyclamen taffetas made in early Victorian stylo. Her hat in a toning shade whs also trimmed at the brim with water lilies, while her .posy was of lemon-tinted flowers. Mr. Harold Spencer, the bridegroom’s uncle, wes best man, and Mr. James Lyon, cousin of the bride, was groomsman.- ■■ V

Miss Houseman was given away by her father, the , Bov, Canon-Fancourt performing the marriage ■ ccremonyl At the reception afterwards held, at the Brpadway ■ Hounge, where abopt seventy friends, add well wishers gathered to honour the usual toasts and customs, Mrs. Houseman received her guests wearing a gown of navy gaberdine with a black satin coat and a black hat. Mrs. Smith, the bride-/ groom's mother,- who made the. beautiful Wedding cake, was in black dharmalino with a black hat, .Coat-and fur.- ' ■ . ,

Among those, present were j— Mrs. James Gavey, of Tangimoana,: grandmother of the bride, and Mrs. Spencer, of Palmerston North grandmother of the,bridegroom. ... The reception room had been most artistically decorated and the whole sccßa.was, a charming otic. When the bride and bridegroom loft later for Auckland on their honeymoon Mrs. Smith, wore a frock' of roSo beige charmaline and a navy coat, with a fawn'fur and fawn crinoline hat.