WEDDING OF WIDE INTEREST

Southland Times, Issue 23735, 6 February 1939, Page 9

WEDDING OF WIDE INTEREST

MISS ZONA NICHOL MARRIED BRIDE WEARS HEIRLOOM VEIL One of the oldest families in Southland was represented when the marriage was solemnized on Saturday afternoon of Zona Willis, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest A. Nichol, of Morningside, Bluff, and Peter Corbett, second son of Mr and Mrs F. S. P. Saunders, of Godaiming, Surrey, England. The Rev. E. Noel Luker performed the ceremony. The service was fully choral and took place in St. Matthew’s Church, Bluff, which had been decorated by the choir and friends of the bride, with pink, red and cyclamen hydrangeas and gladioli to match the colours worn by the bridesmaids. The organist was Mr C. Thomas and during the signing of the register, the solo ‘‘Just For Today” was sung by the bride’s aunt, Mrs R. H. Baird, Mt. Soho, Arrowtown. . • The bride was given away by. her father and was attended by her sister, Miss Hilda Nichol, her cousin, Miss Huia Stables, Christchurch, and Miss Mary Chilwell, Invercargill, as bridesmaids. Mr Leslie Nichol (brother of the bride) was best man and Messrs A, O. Gilmour and E. Abbey Jones were groomsmen. The ushers .were Messrs P. W. Gresson, Invercargill, and C. J. Speight, Wether Hill, Ohai. MOULDED SATIN GOWN ■ The bride wore a moulded gown of ivory slipper satin made with a high neck-line and an oval of shirring in the front, forming a high waist-line. The long sleeves were gathered over the shoulder and fitted closely from the elbow to wrist and formed a point over the hand. Satin buttons trimmed the sleeves •from wrist to elbow. The front of the skirt was cut in one with two peaks to the oval of shirring and was moulded over the hips to meet a centre panel at the back, which fell to form an oval train. The back of the frock was fastened with satin buttons and loops from neck to waistline and a satin girdle was tied at the front. The bride’s veil, of Limerick lace, which is 150 years old, was lent by Mrs Denniston Cuthbertson, Invercargill, and fell from a small circular tulle veil which was worn over the face when entering the church, and which was held in place by a low coronet of orange blossom which had been worn by her mother. The bride also wore a pearl brooch, an heirloom belonging to her mother. She carried a shower bouquet of cream roses, regal lilies and maiden-hair fem. The bridesmaids were dressed alike in Empire frocks of parchment ninon patterned in tones of pink, flame and cyclamen, worn over parchment taffeta underslips. The bodices were rucked in the centre from the V neckline to the waist and a band of rucking was carried over the shoulder and [ down the centre of the short full

'sleeves. A row of self-covered buttons from neck to waist-line trimmed the back of the bodices. The skirts, inset with six gores, fitted closely over the hips and then flared out to a very full hem-line. At the waist they wore sashes of eau de nil taffeta which tied at the back and the ends fell to the hem-line. They also wore long white gloves. Each wore a coronet of small flame-coloured begonias and roses arid they carried bouquets of flame dahlias, roses, begonias and maiden-hair fern. The reception was held in the billiard room, Morningside, the home of the bride’s parents, where Mr and Mrs Nichol received the guests assisted by her daughter-in-law, Mrs Ernest Nichol. Mrs Nichol wore a black gold embossed cloque gown, made with a slightly cowled neck-line and a longsleeved tailored jacket with wide lapels, a black picture hat of balibuntal straw trimmed with a gold ornament and black veil, and a cross-fox fur. She carried a bouquet of carnations in shades of pink and cyclamen. Mrs Ernest Nichol chose a navy and yellow patterned crepe frock worn under a navy coat, a cream straw hat and a cross-fox fin:. She wore a shoulder spray of red roses. For travelling the bride wore a jacket frock of navy and white embossed georgette, trimmed at the neckline with a green ornament, a navy felt toque with an eye-veil, navy accessories and a fox fur.