ABBEY WEDDING.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1931, Page 13

ABBEY WEDDING.

HORSE GUARDS IN AISLE. Lady Davina Lytton, younger daughter of the Earl and Countess of Lytton, had a beautiful white and silver wedding ceremony in Westminster Abbey, where hundreds of guests representative of the best-known families in England watched her marriage with the Earl of Erne (states the Daily Mail). Not for 32 years —when the Marquis and Marchioness of Crewe were married there—has there been any but a Royal wedding in the Abbey, and for that reason, as well as the popularity of the bride and bridegroom and their respective families, the occasion was of special interest to the whole of social London. The scene in the great grey building was« wonderfully picturesque, but full of a solemn dignity which accorded well with the setting and the ceremony The chancel was filled with a fashionable congregation, and in the nave were assembled hundreds of tenantry .and employees associated with the Lytton and Erne families. Triumphal music came from the <Teat organ, and then, with a clash of swords and the rattle of spurs, 36

troopers of the Royal Horse Guards m which the bridegroom is a lieutenantmarched in and took up their positions in the aisle, forming a guard of honour for the bride. The music softened, there was a slight stir in the west cloister, and then a slender figure in o. long silvery gown passed through the wide stone arches escorted by her father, the cream lace of her veil, gathered over a tiny chaplet of orange buds, flowing out over her beautiful fan-shaped bridal train. She carried no flowers, and w 3 no gloves, but in her right hand was clasped a small Prayer Book covered with brocade to match her gown, the Prayer Book she has used since her confirmation. . . Tiny pages in gold tissue tunics and bridesmaids in flounced frocks of the softest ivory gauze formed a procession. .. Princess Ingrid of Sweden was in the congregation. Lady Caroline Paget, one of the°prettiest debutantes of the year, was a bridesmaid, and scores of the bride’s girl friends were among the guests.