WEDDING BELLS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10891, 4 March 1914, Page 8

WEDDING BELLS.

PARKINSON—KNIGGE. A pretty wedding took place yesterday, the contracting parties being Mr Artiiur Charles Manfred Parkinson, only son of Mr Edward Parkinson, of Marton, and Ruth Milne Knlgge, only daughter of Mr and Mrs A. H. Knigge, also of this town. The wedding ceremony took place at the residence of the bride’s parents, “Banksia Villa, ” Wellington. Road, the officiating minister being the Rev. A. Porter. The bride, who looked very charming, was gowned in white satin oharmease, the skirt being draped over silk lace caught with a large ninon rose, and finished with pearls. The corsage was also of draped si Ik laoo with touches of ninon, and finished with pearls. A wide satin belt was worn caught to a large ninon rose with pearl spears. The wedding veil of beautifully worked tnilo was caught with sprays of orange blossom to a French cap of silk lace, framing the face in Dutch fashion. The bride’s bouquet was a shower of maiden-hair and asparagus fern with white roses and white asters. The bride was given away by her father; while Master Oecll Knigge, nephew of the bride, acted as page, and wore a pale bine suit with mailings of netted lace. His Roman cap of pale blue and lace was finished with an erect ostrich plume. He carried a crook with snowdrops. Mss Knigge, the bride’s mother, wore black glace silk with heavy lace trimmings. Her hat was of black orinolene with black ostrich plume. Mrs Knigge carried a boquet of asparagus and heliotrope and white asters.

After the marriage ceremony the wedding party, about 40 in number, were conveyed to Gould’s tea rooms, where the wedding breakfast, which was most tastefully laid, was partaken of, and the following toasts duly honouredThe Bride and Bridegroom,” proposed by the Rev. A. Porter in a neat and happy speech, and suitably responded to by the bridegroom, who then proposed the health of the Page, on whose behalf Mr H. Q. Knigge responded. The otter toasts honoured were ‘‘Parents and Relatives of the Bride,” proposed by Mr G. B. Gregory, and responded to by Mr A. H. Knigge, father of the bride. “The Father and Relatives of the Bridegroom,” proposed by Mr H. H. Riobardson, uncle of the bride, and responded to by Mr A. Parkinson, uncle of the bridegroom. “ The Guests,” proposed by Mr A. Lyon in a neat and humorous speech, and responded to by Mr G. B. Gregory, and as a fitting termination to the pleasing little function the health of the officiating minister, Rev. Porter, and of Mrs Porter, was proposed by Mr A. H. Knigge, to which Mr Porter replied. The wedding cake, a heauiful three decker, and which was out by the bride during the function, was the work of Mr Gould’s establishment. The wedding presents were both unmerous and valuable, showing the high esteem in which the young couple are held. Mr . Parkinson and his bride left amid a shower of rice and confetti and the well wishes of their friends, by the mail train for New Plymouth, where the honeymoon will be spent. Upon their return Mr and Mrs Parkinson will take up their residence permanently in Marten.