Wedding.

Southland Times, Issue 21581, 19 December 1931, Page 15

Wedding.

DUNLOP— WILSON. Three bridesmaids showing a distinctly late-Victorian influence in dress attended a charming Invercargill bride on Wednesday evening when hundreds of people assembled in and about St. John’s Church, Tay street, at 7 o’clock to witness the marriage between Katharine Dorothy, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs E. R. Wilson, River Road, Gladstone, and Alan Robert, younger son of Mr and Mrs Robert Dunlop, of Ashburton. The altar was massed with vases of white flowers intermingled with pink, while pink antirrhinums and blue looped with pink-streamered bows, marked the guests’ pews. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. A. Lush, assisted by the bride’s uncle, the Rev. Herbert Wilson, of Paraparamu. The impressive service was fully choral, with Mr Charles Gray at the organ. As the bride and her father entered the church the choir sang the bridal hymn, “How welcome was the call.” During the service the 67th psalm and the hymn, “All people that on earth do dwell” were sung. During the signing of the register the choir sang Schubert’s four-part setting of the twentythird psalm, for ladies’ voices only, unaccompanied. Mr Gray played Mendelssohn’s Wedding March as the bridal party left the church. The bride wore a severely simple frock of parchment satin, shaped pieces of the material let in across the front sweeping downwards at the back to form a fairly long train. Moulding her figure to below the hips, it developed into a very full flared skirt, ankle-length. Long tight sleeves pointed over the hands, the. V being repeated in the plain neckline. Her triple string of pale pink pearls was the gift of the bridegroom. She wore a very beautiful old family veil of Limerick lace, worn by her mother and grandmother before her. This had a close all-over design of a conventional flower pattern, with a bolder design round the edge. It was held in place well off the forehead by a thin circlet of orange-blossom, forming a small cluster at each side. Going into the church the veil covered her face, and was caught back after the ceremony. She carried a sheaf of Arum lilies.

The bridesmaids were the Misses Shelagh Wilson, Peggy Snow and Marjorie Todd. Their frocks were of rich turquoise blue satin, sleeveless under diminutive boleros of the same material, whose fitting sleeves flared from above the elbow to within two inches of the wrist. Similar to the bride’s frock in line and length, their flared skirts formed a shorter train. A bustie effect

was achieved by four flat folds, picot-edged, each two inches wide, forming a straight hip yoke in the front and shaped upwards at the back into a huge, soft bow of the material, their uneven tails giving added fullness to the already full skirts. This modernized Victorianism was enhanced by quaint pork-pie hats of matching felt, whose curling ostrich tips were of soft shell pink, enclosing the backs of their heads, and falling slightly at the opposite side. They carried muffs of turquoise blue tulle with a wide frili at each side, the fronts closely covered with pink sweet-peas. Their shoes were of blue satin, and their necklaces of rose quartz and crystal were the gifts of the bridegroom. Mr Neil Watson was best man, with Mr Hugh Russell and Dr. Roland Wilson as groomsmen. Messrs Lex and Noel Wilson acted as ushers at the church. Under the marquee on the lawn at the Wilson home, ideally situated in their picturesque garden, the wedding breakfast was laid. About fifty guests were received by Mrs Wilson assisted by Mrs C. B. Snow. Mrs Wilson wore a frock of floral silk marocain under a coat of heavy black silk, with a beige fur collar. Her hat was large, of black circ straw, and she carried a bouquet of crimson roses. Mrs Snow wore a black lace frock and black straw with black ostrich feather. She carried a posy of pale pink roses. Mrs Robert Dunlop wore a black lace frock under a long black coat of embossed silk, and a black bowler hat worn with a drooping black ostrich feather. Miss Jessie Dunlop wore a three-quarter length coat of Wedgewood velvet with collar and cuffs of white fur. Her matching velvet beret was quilled. Her frock was of floral ninon in sunset tones. The Rev. J. A. Lush acted as chairman at the breakfast. Afterwards, over 100 young people were entertained at a dance at the Country Club, with Jack Thompson’s orchestra in attedance. The appearance of bride and bridegroom was a signal for the Wedding March and when they were leaving, the flancers formed two rows through which the newly married couple were obliged to pass, under a barrage of confetti. Most of the guests returned to the Wilson home to witness their departure by car on their honeymoon. Mrs A. R. Dunlop’s going-away costume .."onsist ed of a summer-weight wrap-over coat of black flecked with white, a bowler of black straw softened by a hanging black ostrich feather, and a model frock of closely-pat-terned black and cream ninon. Four wide tucks across the back of the coat further defined the waistline by forming a belt across the front. Cream collar and cuffs and a pink buckle below the collar were the frock’s chief adornments. After their departure, the younger portion of the guests returned to the Country Club, where the dance continued. Mr and Mrs A. R. Dunlop will take up residence in Invercargill. The following is the guest list for the wedding:—Mr and Mrs R. Dunlop and Miss Dunlop (Ashburton), Mr and Mrs W. J. S. Dunlop, Mr and Mrs R. Dunlop, Messrs EL

and M. Wilson and Miss E. Wilson (South Hillend), Mrs J. T. Plain and Mr J. C. Prain, Mr and Mrs A. B. Moffett, Mr and. Mrs G. I. Moffett, Mr T. Moffett, Mrs C. B. Snow, Mr and Mrs W S. Todd, Mr G. Todd, Rev. Fynes-Clinton and Miss Fynes Clinton, Mr and Mrs H. F. Drewe, Mr and Mrs J. D. Shand, Mr and Mrs J. L. McG. Watson, Mr and Mrs A. Deaker, Mr and Mrs R. N. Todd, Mr and Mrs G. St. V Kcddell, Mrs A. C. Mac Ewan and Miss Thelma Mac Ewan, Mr A. L. Wyllie and Miss Wyllie, Rev. J. A. and Mre Lush, Miss Crofts, Mr Pat Moffett, Miss Abbey-Jones and Mr Edgrll Abbey-Jones, Mrs C. F. Hackworth, Miss Lulu Henderson, Miss Erin Moffett, Miss Marion Hormann (Makarewa), Mr P. Dobbie, Dr. R. H. Hogg, Dr. Donald Allan (Dunedin)_, Miss Mary Webb and Miss Julia Snow.

Those present at the dance were: Mr and Mre B. W. Hewat, Mr and Mrs R. Stout, Mr and Mrs G. St. V. Keddell, Mr and Mrs 11. J. Macalister, Mr and Mrs W. M. L. Sutherland, Mr and Mrs W. E. Hunt (Waitoru), Mr and Mrs T. Menzies Watson (Morven), Mrs Thomas; Misses S. Wilson, L. F. Watson, B. McGregor (Mt. Linton), Douglas (2), M. Webb, E. Bews, A. Tapley, N. Hore (Christchurch), D. Webb (New Plymouth), K. Hazlett, 0. Morrah, N. Stev. ens, K. Anderson, G. Macdonald, Y. Levvey, J. and P. Snow, S. Rankin, E. Jones, C. Bailey, T. Mac Ewan, M. Todd, B. Macoonald, N. Stretteil, A. Abbey-Jones, N. Story (Venlaw), P. and M. Hoyles, J. Rodger, M. Royds, N. and M. Loughnan, 0. Holloway, D. Jones, P. Taylor and E. and J. Moffett; Messrs N. MacGregor (Mt. Linton), G. Broughton, N. and L. Wilson, T. Tapley, C. Rout, J. Hamilton, H. Carswell, P. Moffett, J. C. Prain, G. Jennings, H. Mirams, F. Bray, P. Dobbie, J. Mills, A and C. Horne, R. McKay, W. Butchers, V. Fountain, Bangford, .Millson, Cameron, Hur-ton-Potts, J. F. Dundas, N. Macalster, G. Todd, M. Macdonald, J. Stretteil, E. Abbey Jones, C. Story (Venlaw), H. Crawford, R. Hanan, P. Gilchrist, N. Watson, J. Sinclair, S. Miller, T. Spencer and A. Iloworth; and Drs, R. 11. Hogg, D. Allan (Dunedin), Roland Wilson and D. Jeunings.