WEDDING BELLS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12617, 9 April 1934, Page 2

WEDDING BELLS.

T A UC !H E R—G USTOFSON. A pretty wedding was celebrated at St. Cuthbert’s Church, Eketahuna, the officiating minister being the Key. G. Watson, M.A., and the contracting parties being Lilian Isabel, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Gustofson, Rongomai, and Ralph Frederick, soil of Mrs and the late Mr Taucher, Carterton. The bride, who entered the church with her father, was charmingly attired in a white crinkle crepe and lace frock, made on fitting lines. She also wore a handsome embroidered veil and carried a sheaf of pale pink and cream roses. Two' bridesmaids were in attendance, Miss Sybil Roach, Shannon, and Miss Margaret Gustofson, sister of the bride. Each wore smart cream frocks and caps to match and carried sheafs of pink verbena and asparagus fern. Little Beth Davie attended as flower-girl and looked sweet in a cream georgette Victorian frock and lace cap. Mr John Stevens and Mr Jack .Taucher, of Carterton, were best man and groomsman resneetivelv. Mrs F. G. Bath played the wedding music. After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was held in the Oddfellows’ Hall. The guests, numbering about 60, were received by the bride’s mother, who wore a navy •frock and hat and carried a posy of red roses and carnations. After the wedding breakfast, with the ulual toasts duly honoured, Mr and Mrs Taucher left by motor on their honeymoon. The bride travelled in a smart black frock and hat with a wine coloured coat. Mr and Mrs Taucher’s future home will be in Carterton. STEVENS —FA IR BR OTHER. Easter Monday saw a very pretty wedding celebrated at St. Alb&n-s Church, Te Reliunga, when Phyllis Mary, second daugrter qf Mr and Mrs H. P. Fairbrother, of Iviritaki, was married to Colin Alexander, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Charles Stevens, of Palmerston North. The Rev. G. B. Stephenson officiated, find Mr H. H. Phillips at the organ played the Wedding i March and incidental music. The bride, who entered on the arm of her father, was charmingly frocked in ivory society crepe cut on slim-fitting lines with sleeves puffed to the elbow, with tight- fitting cuffs, the skirt falling in graceful lines to form a train. The beautiful, heavily embroidered veil, lent by her sister, Mrs Bibby, was caught with the orthodox orange blossoms and a bouquet was of white chrysanthemums and begonias with maiden-hair fern, and long trail falling to the hem of the gown, completing a most becoming ensemble. Three bridesmaids were in attendance, Miss Rosa Fairbrother (sister), Miss Gwen Baucke, of Masterton, and Miss Joyce Urwin, of Raetihi, cousins of the bride, and they made a very pretty picture in tlieir respective frocks of salmon pink, apple green, and gold georgette, all fashioned alike and each wearing a gold necklet and pendant, the gifts of the bridegroom. Their bouquets were of gladioli and maiden-hair fern to tone with their frocks, and bandeaux of velvet flowers to tone were worn.

Mr Jack Stevens, brother of the bridegroom, was best man, while the groomsmen were Messrs AY. J. Cochrane and R. Fairbrother (brother of the bride).

At the reception, held in the public hall at Te Rehunga, when a very large party was entertained, Mrs Fairbrother received her guests in a liandsome model frock of mulberry silk velvet with hat and flowers to tone, and Mrs Stevens, mother of the bridegroom, wore black crepe de cbene with touches o‘f white and small black hat. The bride and bridegroom left by car for their wedding trip, the former travelling in a brown tailored costume with small Angora hat. Mian d Mrs Colin Stevens will make their home at Rua Roa, where they will be reminded of their very many friends by the beautiful gifts they received.