THE MARRIAGE OF LADY DOROTHY ONSLOW

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6964, 2 November 1909, Page 2

THE MARRIAGE OF LADY DOROTHY ONSLOW

FROM OUE SPECIAL COEEEBPOXDEXT. LONDON, September 24. Clandon is in Surrey, twenty-five miles from Waterloo, and at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, at West Clandon, a wedding of interest to Now Zealanders took place on September 21st, when Lady Dorothy Onslow, younger daughter of the Lari of Onslow, well remembered as a past Governor of New Zealand, aas married to the Hon. Edward Frederick Lindloy Wood, only surviving son of Viscount Halifax. - The church is on Lord Onslow s estate, Clandon Park, and is a. grey stone building about a mile from Clandon Station. Special carriages were reserved on the 9.22 train from \i alerloo for London guests, who, on arrival at tho destination, wero met by motors, private omnibuses, carriages, and dogcarts, and conveyed to the church for tho ceremony, which began at 11. Tho church is a very small one, and only invited guests wero admitted, crowds of villagers and onlookers flocking round both north and south doors. Tho chancel was decorated with a profusion of white flowers and palms, and tho service was fully _ choral, Holy Communion being administered to the bridal pair at tho conclusion of tho' wedding ceremony, so that tho service was much- longer than is usual, lasting ono and a quarter hours. The bride is a sweet-looking girl al*ways, of medium height, slender, and with masses of beautiful fair hair, and on her wedding day, with tho sun shining through the stained glass windows on to her, she looked radiantly winning as she loft the church on the arm of her giant husband, while joybells pealed overhead. Tho keynote of tho whole affair was simplicity, and though there wero twelve bridesmaids the scheme of the dressing was remarkable more for the picturesqueness of effect than for any elaboration. The six grown-up maids of honour wore corselet gowns of soft white qinon de soie. with perfectly tight-fitting plain bodices, low-necked, and with white chiffon sleeves, over which, at the top, was a band of silver passementerie trimming—the same - ornamentation outlining tho necks and waists. Instead of hats, tulle veils I were worn, and each maid, above her veil, had a wreath of roses, white and crimson alternately. They carried small bouquets of crimson roses. Six little bridesmaids of very diminutive stature were gowned in Greenaway costumes of white silk veiled in chiffon, wearing on their heads Juliet caps of latticed pearls, with a crimson rose at ono side and a white rose aitthe other. All wore silver shoos, and as their only ornaments, pendants of amethysts and diamonds on platinum chains, tho gifts of tho bridegroom. Tho bridesmaids wore Lady Dorothy Browne, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Kenmaro; Lady Muriel Herbert, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Pembroke; the Hon. Mary Vosey, daughter of Constance, Countess do Vcsci; tho Hon. Blanche Lasoelles, daughter of Commander tho Hon. Frederick and Mrs Lascelles, and Maid of Honour to the Queen; Miss Margaret and Miss Mary Sutton, nieces of the bridegroom; the Misses LaneFox, also nieces of the bridegroom; Miss Full-er-Maitland, Miss Claire Stopford, Miss Mary Gardner, and Miss Aileen Guinness. Tho bride, who was given away by her father, wore a beautiful gown of white satin very simply made with a close-fitting, high-waisted bodice trimmed with a drapery of old Brussels lace and crystal embroidery, and a very long trained skirt, over which tho plain tulle veil fell to the hem A wreath of orange blossoms was in her hair, and she carried a bouquet of lilies of the valley. Her only ornament was her husband’s £ift, a pearl necklace with diamond clasp. After tho ceremony, again, the same quiet simplicity reigned, for no conveyances of any kind were requisitioned, and tho bride and bridegroom, followed |by the little bevy of maids of honour ' and bridesmaids and tho guoste, walked through the -churchyard and over tho green lawns to Clandon Park, whore the wedding reception was hold. Little village children standing in the i churchyard with baskets of rose-leaves 11 made a path of flowers for tho happy I pair, and an arch of white flowers, i under which everyone passed at the entrance to tho Park, bore above it, , in red letters on a white ground, with an carl’s crest at one side, a viscount’s at the other, and the letters El and D, j the old greeting “ Health and Happiness.” | The Countess of Onslow’s dress was a very beautiful ono of sapphire blue i crope-de-cheno, trimmed with lace, with which she wore a dark blue'halt covered with ostrich feathers, and a sable stole; in her bodice a cluster of crimson roses and an ornament of diamonds and sapphires. Viscountess Halifax, who accompanied Lady Onslow to the vestry- after the ceremony, wore bright navy moire antique, and a toque of velvet and moire to match. She also wore sables. I Lady Gwendoline Guinness, the older ' daughter of Lord and Lady Onslow, wore a long coat and skirt of mush-room-coloured satin trimmed with poplin, and a large black hat. I The bride’s going-away dress was of | hyacinth blue velvet, with black hat,

and she wore the beautiful sables given her by her mother._ The honeymoon is being spent at Garrowhy, lent by Lord Halifax.