A Novel Wedding

Southland Times, Issue 21196, 24 September 1930, Page 12

A Novel Wedding

(From Our Correspondent.) London, July 8. The wedding of Miss Maisie Gasque, daughter of, the late Mr C. W. Gasque, who held the position of secretary and a director of F. W. Woolworth. Ltd., for some years, . and of Mrs Gasque, of the Elms, Hampstead, to Mr Roland Robinson; which takes place t6-morrow at St. Margaret's, Westminster, will bJ remembered for many novel features.- Here are some of them: . . The gaieties began with a trousseaux tea last week. This was followed by a “reunion dinner” bn the arrival of the bride's relations from America,

To-night a “rehearsal dinner party” 'is being given by the bride's mother after a rehearsal of the ceremony. After the wedding the bridegroom’s brother is giving a dinner party for the ushers and bridesmaids. The bridal retinue is international. Of the grown-up maids four are English, three American, two Italian, one German, one Spanish, and one Russian. There will be four tiny trainbearers, two girls and two boys, and a third little boy will carry, on a heart-shaped cushion of ivory-tinted velvet, a gold pen designed like a quill, which will be used to sign the register. ‘ i The bridal car has an interior which is a replica in miniature of a Louis XVI. drawing room, the ceiling being painted in a design of cherubs. After dhe reception the bride and bridegroom will motor to Stag-lane, where th'e aeroplane in which Sir Alan Cobham made his flight to Australia, will take them to

Paris on the first stage of their three months’ honeymoon. The ceremony at St. Margaret’s should be one of the loveliest seen this season. In the chancel will be a profusion of white flowers, principally lilies, to match with the ivory satin of the bride’s gown, which ijj embroidered in a pearl design of lilies, and her long train, which will be carried by four little children .all dressed in white satin-. The length of the aisle will be decorated with masses of flowers beginning at the top with pale peach-pink shades and deepening gradually till at the end of the aisle the flowers will be of deep flame colour. The twelve grown-up maids will carry out this peach-to-flame colour scheme by following the bride in single file, the shortest dressed in the palest shade of peach-pink walking first, and the tallest, in the deepest flame, bringing up the rear. Their dresses are made of tulle and lace reaching to the ground. They are sleeveless, but long lace mittens give the appearance of sleeves.