EASTER WEDDINGS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 13 April 1939, Page 2

EASTER WEDDINGS

TRATHEN—LAMING p I V A quiet wedding of interest to a wide s circle of friends took place on Easter j Saturday morning, when Esther Lam- t ing, only daughter of Mrs Ernest Me- s Donald and the late Richard William Laming, of Wellington, was married to I Geoffrey Melville, eldest son of Mr and s Mrs B. Trathen, of “Waratah,” Colling- i wend street. Nelson. £ The ceremony took place at St. * John’s Methodist Church, and was con- * ducted by the Rev. W. Rowe, Miss ‘ Carty presiding at the organ. Following a modern and popular 1 trend, the bride dispensed with the traditional veil and gown, and, escorted by Mr Alan Greenslade, entered the j church in a simple but charming frock of crush proof silk crepe in liane, re- . lieved with touches of Mayfair green. | She wore a hat of liane velour mount- ; ed with a real osprey feather in May- ] fair green. Her bouquet was composed - of dahlias and begonias in light shades < contrasting with her frock, and inter- < mingled with maidenhair fern. Miss Joyce Trathen, sister of the 1 bridegroom, was the bridesmaid, wearing a pretty frock in an Avanti dahlia shade of heavy satin-backed crepe, embroidered at neck and waist with foxglove stitching. She wore a headdress of velvet flowers in dahlia tonings and carried a bouquet of dahlias and begonias in darker shades. She also wore a beautiful necklace of Marquise pearls, a gift from the bridegroom. Mr Harry Scoltock, of Nelson, acted as best man. A reception was held later *at “Waratah,” the home of the bridegroom’s parents, where Mrs McDonald and Mrs B. Trathen received the guests. Mrs McDonald wore a navy costume with hat to match, and a shoulder spray of red begonias, and Mrs Trathen wore a foxglove cloque ensemble, the coat showing the reverse side of the material. Her model Bangkok straw hat was in the same shade with matching veiling, and she wore a shoulder spray of begonias in apricot shade. When the bridal couple left on their wedding tour, the bride travelled in a siut of angora feather fleck in a clover check, with fur stole and black hat and accessories to tone Mr and Mrs G. Trathen, who were the recipients of many beautiful gifts, will make their home in Nelson.