BEAUTIFUL WEDDING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

BEAUTIFUL WEDDING.

CEREMONY IN ABBEY. PICTURESQUE SPECTACLE. Lady Davma Lvtton, younger daughter of the Karl and Countess of Lvtton, had a beautiful while-and silver wedding ceremony in Westminster Abbey a few weeks ago, where hundreds of guests representative of the best-known families in the country watched her marriage with the Earl of Erne. Not for 52 years—when the Marquis and Marchioness of Crewe wero married there —has there been any but a royal wedding in tho -Abbey; and for that reason, as well ns the popularity of the bride and bridegroom and their respective families, the occasion was of special interest to the whole of social London. The scene in the great grey building was wonderfully picturesque, but full of a solemn dignity which accorded well with the setting and the ceremony. The chancel was filled with a fashionable congregation, and in the nave were assembled hundreds of tenantry and employees associated with the Lvtton and Erne families. Triumphal music came from tho great, organ, and then, with a clash of swords and tho rattle of spurs, 36 troopers of the Royal Horse Guards—in which the bridegroom is a lieutenant—marched in and took up their positions in tho aisle, forming a guard of honour for the bride. The music softened, there was a slight stir in the west cloister, and then a slender figure in a long silvery gown passed through the wide stone arches on tho arm of her father, the creamy lace of her veil, gathered over a tiny chaplet of orange buds, flowing out, over her beautiful fan-shaped bridal train. The bride carried no flowers and wore no gloves, but in her right hand was clasped a small Prayer Book covered with brocado to match her gown, the Prayer Book she has used since her confirmation. While the congregation strained to catch a glimpse of the bride, tiny pages in gold tissue tunics and bridesmaids in flounced frocks of the softest ivory gauze gathered themselves into a procession, the bride passed through the chancel to the altar steps, and the ceremony began. Princess Ingrid of Sweden was in the congregation. Ladv Caroline Paget, one of tho prettiest debutantes of tho year, was a bridesmaid, ahd scores of the bride's girl friends were among the guests.