WEDDING

Southland Times, Issue 19478, 30 March 1922, Page 6

WEDDING

PRICE—KINGSLAND. A wedding of considerable interest, locally, was solemnised at Invercargill yesterday,’ the contracting parties being Miss Ruby Maud Louie lOgsland, daughter of Mr and Mrs T. D. Kingsland, of Avenal, and Mr Percy Albert Price, son of Air and Mrs F. A. Price, of Waikiwi. The ceremony took place at All Saints’ Church, Gladstone, the officiating clergyman being the Rev. Canon' tynes-Clinton. The little, ivy-clad church was tastefully decorated with flowers and greenery, and was filled to overflowing by relatives and friends of the happy couple, lhe bride, who was given away by her father, made a sweet and charming picture in a dress of cream charmeuse silk with overdress of silver embroidered net, and carried a shower bouquet with the usual veil of orange blossoms. The bridesmaids, Miss Mona Kingsland, and Stella Price, were prettily attired in dresses carried out in apple green organdi muslin, with large black picture hats with apricot trimmings, and green shoes and stockings to match. Each carried a bouquet of cream and apricot roses. Mr J. B. Thomson acted as beskman, and Mr Muir Templeton as groomsan. The bride’s mother wore a beautiful dress of taffeta silk relieved with peacock green, with silver and trimmings of sends and apricot. She also wore a peacock green toque and veil with fitch fur stole. The bridegroom’s mother was attired in a neat grey costume embrpidered in black, with a black velvet hat and black furs. At the conclusion of the ceremony at the church, an adjournment was made to the residence of the bride’s parents, where the wedding breakfast was partaken of by £ver a hundred relatives and friends of the bride and bridegroom in a tent, neatly decorated with greenery and Chinese lanterns, which was erected on the lawn for the occasion, The catering was a credit to Messrs George Dyer and Co., a splendid menu being provided, and arrangements were carried out in a most capable manner by the staff of ladies engaged. The father of the bride, Mr D. Kingsland, presided in the absence of Canon FyneaClinton who was unavoidably called away at the last moment. A number of happy speeches were made, testifying to the high regard in which the newly married couple were held. In the course of his reply to the toast of the bride’s parents, Mr D. Kingsland gave some interesting particulars of the history of the Kingsland family in Southland. The patriarch of the family was Mr John Kingsland who was in his 93rd" year. The father on the speaker’s side was the late Mr Dan Kingsland who came to New Zealand in 1892. About ten years later he was followed by his brother John and these two founded the Kingsland' family. In John’s family there were eight living and the descendants totalled 63. On Daniel’s side of tjie house there were five children and his descendants numbered 46. There were therefore 109 , descendants of the two brothers, which 1 he did not thiakwas

A number of eulogistic speeches were made with reference to the parents of the bride and bridegroom. Mr and Airs Price leftgby the afternoon express for the Lakes, where the honey moon will be spent. The bride’s travelling dress consisted of a navy blue costume with hat to match and grey squirrel fur. The presents, which included a number of cheques for substantial amounts, were numerous and costly.