WEDDING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 4

WEDDING

SMITH—WHATMAN A wedding of considerable interest was solemnised at St. Barnabas Church. Stoke, recently by the Rev. C. F. Saunders, when Nola Coleman, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs O. J. Smith, Stoke, was married to Pilot Officer Lancelot Douglas James Whatman, youngest son of Mr and Mrs H. Max Whatman, of Waimate. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a long-sleeved frock of white crepe with a train and a beautiful hand-embroid-ered veil. She carried a sheaf of Christmas lilies and maidenhair fern. Her bridesmaids, Misses Beryl Wall, of Havelock North, and Joy Robinson, of Stoke, wore full-skirted frocks of white figured voile and carried bouquets of pink carnations and gladioli. The best man was Flying Officer A. Beadle, of Omaka, and the groomsman. Cpl. K. H. Smith, brother of the bride. The wedding music was played by Mrs K. H. Smith, sister-in-law of the bride, and Miss Shirley Grant sang “My Prayer” during the signing of the register. The reception was held at “Trasimene,” the home of the bride, where the bride's mother, assisted by Miss Whatman, the bridegroom’s sister, received the guests. When the couple left on their honeymoon, the bride was wearing a frock of deep turquoise silk crepe with a short white coat and turban, and carried a white purse and gloves. These, together with a lovely pearl necklace, were the gift of the bridegroom..