WEDDINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12301, 19 June 1903, Page 3

WEDDINGS.

A'very pretty wedding was solemnised on Wednesday afternoon, in St. Barnabas' Church. Mount Eden, when Mr. F. J. Short , ot Opotibi, was married to Miss Mildred Harris, youngest daughter of Major Harris, M.L.C. The bride wore a pretty tucked white silk dress and veil, and was attended by the Misses May and Gladys Short, sisters of the bridegroom, and Miss Eileen Bosworth, niece of the bride. The bridegroom was supported by his brother, Mr. A. (short, of St. John's College. There was a large attendance of friends to witness the ceremony.

A quiet wedding took place at St. Paul's Church on Tuesday, when the Rev. Canon Nelson united in the bonds of matrimony Miss Geraldine May Stokes, only daughter of the late Mr. Stokes and Mrs. Stokes, of Grafton Road, to Mr. Leonard B. Han is, draughtsman in the Public Works D'nartment. On the conclusion of the ceremony, an adjournment was made to the residence of the bride's mother, where about 25 guests, mostly relatives, sat down to a substantial wedding breakfast. The usual toasts were pledged, and the newlywedded couple left for Wellington by the s.s. Waikare, where Mr. Harris takes up his engagement with the New Zealand Government.

Our Tuakau correspondent writes: —A very pretty wedding was solemnised on the 10th inst. at St. John's Church by the Rev. -. B. Dobson. The contracting parties were Miss Millie Booker, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Booker, of .Tualcau, and Mr. Walter Gubb, of the same place, formerly of the Thames. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a pretty dress of cream Roman satin and hat to match, and carried a choice bouquet of cream roses and maidenhair ferns. Miss D. Booker was bridesmaid, and wore a dress of figured lustre and hat to match. The bridegroom's brother, Mr. A. Gubb, acted as best man. As they left the church the " Wedding March" was played by Mrs. Hunter. The party returned to the residence of the bride's parents, where a plentiful repast awaited them, and the happy couple, left by evening train for Auckland to spend their honeymoon They were greeted at the station with a plentiful shower of rice, and bore with them the united good wishes of their numerous friends and acquaintances.