THE EARL OF PEMBROKE AND LADY GERTRUDE TALBOT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4235, 16 October 1874, Page 3

THE EARL OF PEMBROKE AND LADY GERTRUDE TALBOT.

The marriage of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery with Lady Gertrude Prances Talbot, only unmarried daughter of the late and sister of the present Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, was solemnised on August 19 in Westminster Abbey. The wedding party met in the Jerusalem Chamber at about half-past eleven o’clock, and consisted only of. the nearest relatives of the two noble families. Amongst the earliest arrivals were tho Dowager Countess of Dunmore, the Marchioness of Bath, Viscount and Viscountess do Vesci, Lady Marian Alford, Lord and Lady Gilford, Colonel Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot, the Earl and Countess Brownlow, the Dowager Marchioness of Lothian, the Dowager Marchioness of Waterford and Lord Delaval Beresford, the Hon. Robert Meade, &o. The Earl of Pembroke was accompanied by his brother, the Hon. Sidney Herbert, who acted as best man. The bride arrived at half-past eleven o’clock, and was received by her brother, Captain Hon. A. J. Talbot and her bridesmaids (two in number), the Lady Theresa Talbot, niece of the bride, and Lady Constance Gladys Herbert, sister of the bridegroom. The bridal procession passed up the aisle, the Dean and clergy preceding it and the organist playing a wedding march. The ceremony took place in front of Henry Vll.’s shrine, a temporary table having been erected, and the officiating clergymen were the Hon, and Rev. Arthur Chetwynd Talbot and the Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster. The stalls and body of the chapel were filled with the friends of the bride and bridegroom. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Captain Hon. Reginald Talbot, wore a dress of white satin antique, the skirt and train being draped with deep Brussels lace, basque body en occur, puffed sleeves, trimmed with lace ruffs; point de Gaze veil, with wreath of orange blossoms and ornaments of diamonds and pearls. The bridesmaids dresses were of white muslin, trimmed with Valenciennes lace and white silk, and the young ladies wore head dresses of jessamine and long tulle veils. After the ceremony the Earl and his bride left for the Dowager Lady Shrewsbury’s in BelgraveSquare, where the wedding breakfast was given. The Earl and Countess of Pembroke took their departure in the afternoon, amid a shower of rice and satin slippers, for Wilton House, near Salisbury, a special train on the South Western Railway having been engaged to take them to Wilton. The bride’s travelling dress was of pale vigogne and silk, embroidered in oxidised silver, with dolman and bonnet en suite. The bridal presents were very numerous and costly, the donors being the Prime Minister, the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, the Marchioness of Bath, the Marchioness of Lothian, &c.