Weddings

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7018, 18 September 1929, Page 11

Weddings

YORK—HOARE,

A Salvation Amy wedding was solemnised at the local citadel on Wednesday, September 4, 1929, when Adjutant Fraser, of Wanganui, officiated, the contracting parties being Dorothy . Annie, elder daughter of Bandsman and Mrs. Hoare, of Fitzherbert Avenue, and Deputy-Band-master Les Williams, e-ldest son of Bandsman, and Mrs. T. York, of College Street. The bride, who was given away by her father, was attired in a navy costume and wore a coronet of orange blossomVnd carried a beautiful bouquet of freesias, daffodils, azaleas and maidenhair fern. Miss Audrey Alison and Miss Phyllis McLean, cousins of the brido ,attended her, the former acting as chiof bridesmaid. Both wore navy blue crepe de chine f-rocks, putty coloured stockings and black satin shoes. They carried bouquets of spring flowera which completed their toilette. Bandsman Danzil Hoare, brother of the bride, acted as best man and Bandsman Cliff York, brother of the bridegroom, was groomsman; Bandsman Sinclair Sime held the Salvation Army flag throughout the ceremony. The platform decorations gave prominence to the sphere of work in which the bridegroom Is engaged in the Army, and immediately in front of the platform was his own euphonium and on either side a trombone. After the ceremony the band formed a, guard of honour with their instruments upraised and prior to the’ happy cor pie leaving the citadel a junior bandsman presented the bride with a beautiful bouquet of violets. The wedding breakfast was held in the Orange Hall when nearly 100 guests wore present. Many congratulatory messages wore received and the happy couple were the recipients of a large number of valuable presents. Mr and Mrs. York left later for the north on their honeymoon.