ORANGE BLOSSOMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 100, 17 June 1911, Page 5

ORANGE BLOSSOMS.

COLSON—FELTON. A very pretty wedding was solemnised in St. Andrew’s Church on Wednesday, .Tune 14th, by the Rev. J. M. Thompson, when Miss Lucie Felton, second daughter of Mr J. C. Felton, was married to Mr Charles Harold Colson, third son of Mr T. ,1). Colon. The bride, who was given away (> V her father, was charmingly attired in a dress of 'croam voile. She dso wore the orthodox veil and wreath of orange blossoms, and carried a handsome shower bouquet. The bridesmaid, Miss Ruby Felton, sister of the bride, wore a dainty dress of cream dadianta, with hat to match. Mr P. Felton, brother of the bride, was best man. The bridegroom’s gift to the bride was a gold curb bangle, and to the bridesmaid, a gold brooch studded with pearls. After the ceremony, the guests, numbering about eighty, wore entertained by Mr and Mrs Felton at the residence of the son-in-law, Mr J. Fawkncr. The chief toast was proposed by the Rev. Thompson, and during his remarks ho said it had i) sen it is happy lot to see the bride grow up from girlhood to womanhood, iii a few well-chosen words the bridegroom returned thanks for the kindly expressions of goodwill. Mr A. Colson, in a neat and happy speech, proposed the health of the bridesmaid, which was responded to by Mr P. Felton. The health of the parents of Ihe bride and bridegroom was proposed by Mr J. Martin, and duly responded to by Mr Felton and Mr Colson. Mr Felton also had to respond to the toast of “Our Host and Hostess,”, proposed by the Rev. Thompson. Manv and costly were the presents, testifying to the'high esteem in'which the young couple wore held'. The bride’s travelling dross was a blue cloth costume.' The happy couple left by the .‘1 o’clock train lor Wanganui, on route for Auckland, where the honeymoon is to be spout, prior to aett’iug ''own in their future homo at BuckkuuT.