VISCOUNT AND LADY LONG

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18283, 29 December 1933, Page 9

VISCOUNT AND LADY LONG

HONEYMOON TOUR BRILLIANT LONDON • WEDDING LONDON, Nov, 16. On hoard the next outward-bound mail steamer, the Orama, to arrive in Sydney on December 21, is a charming young honeymoon couple, whose wedding in London this week was one of the great social events of the Little Season. Viscount Ixmg of Wraxali, who is proceeding to New Zealand to take up tho iKist of aide-de-camp to the GovernorGeneral of New Zealand, Lord Blcdisloc, was married to Miss Laura Charteris, daughter of the lion. Guy Charteris, only three days before the departure ol the ship from Marseilles, they spent a brief honeymoon in Paris before start-

mg. Lady Long is prominent in the social life of Mayfair, and Royalty—m the person of Princess Helena Victoria—was at her wedding. From the Princess the young couple received the gift ol a bridge table; and the choice ol the Princess Royal and Lord Hare wood was also a bridge table—a folding mahogany one. For her wedding at the fashionable St. Margaret’s, Westminster, the bride chose a simple gown of white luminous satin, the long-sleeved bodice having a rounded neckline with a roll collar. A squave-eut train of the same satin was draped from the shoulder, and her white tulle veil was held in place hy a wreath of myrtle leaves and orange blossom. Five pages and five small girls were included in her bridal retinue (there were only two grown-up bridesmaids). lhe pa-ms wore suits of vellum-tinted ring velvet, with sashes of powder blue lame; wide the little girls had’ picture frocks of vellum-tinted velvet, the highwaisted bodices having short pu'Jcd sleeves. They had veils of powder hue silk net. held in place by gold wreaths, wore gold shoes, and carried small bouquets of liiy-of-the-valley and white heather. WONDERFUL PRESENTS The reception, held afterwards at Hyde Park Gardens (the house lent by the Earl and Countess of Plymouth), was attended by many prominent society folk, including the young Countess oi Jersey. Many beautiful gifts were received, that of the bride's father being a wonderful rope of pearls with jewelled tassels, a diamond soutoir, pearl ana diamond earrings, a diamond brooch and pendant, and combs set with jewels. These formerly belonged lo her inotliei, the late Mrs. Guv Charteris. Another pair of lovely earrings, the gift of Lady Cynthia Asquith, illustrated the new vogue of combining jet with diamonds. Rubies and diamonds in drop design form yet another pair, given bv Lird and Lady Plymouth. Lady O’Neill, the bride's sister, who (like Lady Long) became engaged almost as soon as she came out, chose a practical present. It is a complete, set u golf clubs of the latest design, and will accompany its proud owner wherever she goes, for she is an excellent, golhu. Since early childhood she has played at North Berwick from the house of relatives in the Charteris and Tennant families The Dowager Lady Long of Vv raxall irnve a travelling clock of unique design • from Lord and Lady Northampton, a magnificent fur-lined travelling rug Vet another travelling rug came from Lady Desborough. Lord and Lady Jersey’s choice fell upon a pair of beuutiie. blue china jars; Lady Oxford and Asquith, a silver clock. I hose, witn many more of the presents received, will not he taken to New Zealand by the young people, hut will be stored until their return to London.—Sydney Morning Herald.