WEDDINGS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17832, 28 April 1926, Page 12

WEDDINGS

CLARKE—LAKE. A wedding of interest to a wide circle of friends was celebrated at the Presbyterian Church, Riccarton, lastevening, when Marjory Elsie, only daughter of Mr and Mrs W. T. Lake, Puriri Street. Riccarton, was married to Douglas Arnott, youngest son of Mrs J. I. Clarke, and the late Rev J. I. Clarke, of Waimate. The church was beautifully decorated by the choir members with tawny shaded flowers and autumn foliage. The Rev B. ICilroy was the officiating clergyman and Mr John Dowling presided at the organ. The bride, who was escorted to the church by her father, who subsequently gave her away, looked most attractive in her bridal gown of ivory georgette. The gown was beaded in silver in an uncommon design and the georgette plain at the neck formed a yoke effect. A train of exquisite lace mounted on georgette fell from the shoulders, and over all hung her beautifully embroidered veil, which was arranged from a coronet of fine lace and orange blossoms, and she carried a bouquet of white flowers.

Two little maids -were in attendance, Jessie Palk and Joy Donald, cousins of the bride, wearing frocks of sunset pink and azure blue taffeta respectively, made with a long bodice and inlet bands of silver lace on the skirt. Round their hair they wore wide folded bands of tulle falling long down one side and caught with brilliant buckles, and they carried Early Victorian posies. Dick Palk, as page boy. wore a suit of cream satin with frills of crepe de chine at neck and sleeves.

Mr Melville Lake, brother of the bride, was best, man.

A reception was held later at Dixieland, where over 100 guests attended. The tables were most artistically decorated with mauve and gold flowers, and over the bridal party a large wedding bell was suspended. Mrs Lake received the guests wearing a handsome frock of black satin made on simple lines with panels of radium lace and a buckle of rhine stones at each side of the low waist line. Iler smart black hat was trimmed with a quaint feather mount of black tipped with gold and a gold and black appliqued flower. She carried a bouquet of golden shaded flowers and fern. Mrs Clarke, mother of the bridegroom, wore a distinctive frock of black marocain made with a long tunic bodice, and finely pleated skirt, and relieved at the neck with black and silver grey lace, and a black and silver hat with a black osprey mount. She carried a bouquet of deep red roses. Mr and Mrs Lake afterwards entertained the guests at a most enjoyable dance, and Miss Tilleyshort’s orchestra provided the music. When the bride left for her wedding tour she w’ore a model frock of cinnamon brown cloth flecked with gold, and a smart hat en suite, and carried a musquash coat. THOMSON—HARGREAVES. White chrysanthemums in soft beauty gave a bridal touch to the interior of St Andrew’s Church yesterday afternoon, showing as an appropriate setting to the ivory frock of Clarice May, second daughter of Mr and Mrs G. W. Hargreaves, of St Martins, whose marriage to Thomas, second son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Thomson, Lincoln Road, was celebrated by the Rev Norman Webster. The bride was given away by her father, and followed by a group of dainty attendants. Music, appropriate to the ceremony, was played by Mr R. Lake. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr Stanley Thomson, as best man, and by one groomsman, the bride’s brother, Mr Eric Hargreaves, of Opotiki Ivory georgette combined with ivory Chantilly lace in the bride’s artistic frock. The long, plain bodice of the georgette mitred to points below the waist back and front, almost to the hem, while the lace showed as soft godets between each point and also formed the border of the frock. The veil of net finished with a wide border of lace fell as a graceful train, and was worn with a lace coronet, and a strand of orange blossom at the back of the head. The bridal bouquet was of hothouse flowers. The Misses May Petrie and Nellie Thompson, sister of the bridegroom, acted as maids, in frocks of coral pink and crocus mauve georgette. Miss Petrie’s frock of the pink tint was made with an apron panel effect, and quaintly bordered at the hem, neck and sleeves with a ruching of panne velvet to tone. Miss Thomson’s frock of mauve had an inset panel back, and front, finely pleated and centred with silver lace insertion. Both maids wore coronets of tulle to tone, touched with small velvet flowers, and the flowers in their bouquets shaded from lighter to deeper tones. Two little flower-girls. Betty Merritt, niece

of the bride, and Jean Austin, niece of the bridegroom, wore frocks of pale blue georgette inset with hemstitened godets, and wide bows of ribbon on their hair. They carried Victorian posies of small pink and mauve flowers. During the ceremony a solo was given by Mr Adam Jackson.

Many guests later adjourned to the reception held in St Andrew’s Schoolroom, which was prettilv decked with pink and mauve streamers and flowers. Mrs Hargreaves as hostess wore a becoming frock of mole marocain bengaline, with light draping at each side of silk lace to match. Her hat of hatte'r's plush and corded ribbon was relieved with autumn colouring, and her bouquet repeated the vivid tints. The smart black repp frock worn by Mrs Thomson, the bridegroom’s mother, was finished with a vest of ivory georgette', and she also wore a black panne velvet toque and fox furs. Mauve flowers mingled with russet leaves in her bouquet.

Mrs Clarice Shaw gave several songs during the reception. The bride’s travelling frock was a model of tabac brown, with inset panels back and front, checked in fawn and brown. Her hat of absinthe green and dull gold shading had a brim of ruched velvet, finished with small French flowers. She also wore a smart beaver coat.