ORANGE BLOSSOMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16202, 27 November 1926, Page 16

ORANGE BLOSSOMS

LEWIS—COLLISON

Long before rhe appointed hour the Methodist Church, Hastings, ivus crowded lo witness tho marriage ot itau-Ma-Hara Collison, daughter of Mrs. E. !i. Collison, of ilaumoaua, and tho late Mr. Collison, and Percival Dope Lewis, ot Hastings, son of Mr. and Airs. E. Lewis, ol Gisborne. The Jlev. F. Copeland officiated at the service.

The bride was given away by her brother, Mr, .Stirling Collison, and looked very pretty in a handsome bridal lobe of silver embroidered net over silver tissue. The long train of ivory satin beaute was embroidered in pearls and diamante at t)i t > border, and fell in graceful lines from her shoulders. The beautiful Brussels net veil was hand worked with Limerick lace, aria with it was worn a slender wreath of orange. blossoms, ana posies of orange blossoms over the ears, and she carried a sheaf of whit© roses and maidenhair fern, tied with white satin streamers. The bride was attended by four bridesmaids and two tiam bearers, th© children of friends of the family. The bridesmaids were Miss Airini Collison, sister of the bride, and Miss Shaw. They were quaintly dressed in the mid-Victorian style in mauve and green shot taffeta frocks, with silver lace berthas and rows of narrow lace on skirt, dotted with violets, and Mid-Vic-torian bonnets of mauve and silver, with wreaths of flowers on the inside brim. They carried mid-Victorian posies.. Miss Jean Bowman and Miss Ruth Moody, bridesmaids, wore frocks of shot green and pink taffeta, and pink bonnets made in style of the two first-mentioned bridesmaids. The two little train bearers were Miss Bewley Lewis, sister of the bridegroom, and Miss Noleine Cummings. Mr. T. Burkitt carried out the. duties of best man, and the groomsmen were Mr. .1. Creagh, Napier, and Mr. ('. .Sorrell, Napier. After the marriage ceremony, Mrs. .Collison held a reception and dance in the Assembly Hall. The bride and bridegroom left on a motor four, which will include Taupo, Rotorua, and Auckland. Mrs. Collison, bride's mother, looked handsome in a gown of black maroeain, bordered with Madonna blue and exquisitely embroidered in silver. She wore, a smart black bat, turned up at the back and trimmed with a spray of blue velvet French flowers. Mrs. E. Lewis, of Gisborne, mother of the bridegroom, wore a fawn silk frock, embroidered in orange, and a black lint and marabout stole. Mrs. H. Harvey, bride’s sister, looked very charming in a pale lettuce green georgette, the skirt trimmed with rows of ruched satin ribbon in the same shade, and a black hat with touches of white and ospreys; she coverocLher frock with a white fox fur cape. Miss Collison, aunt of bride, wore a gown of blue maroeain, and crinoline straw bat with flowers to eorrespoTid. Miss Collison, cousin of the bride, wore a pale henna silk embroidered in colors and lint to correspond. Her sister wore pale orange satin maroeain, bordered with hand-made silk flbwers.— Napier Telegraph.