WEDDINGS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19251, 12 December 1930, Page 10

WEDDINGS.

Ball—Black. The marriage was recently solemnised at St Michael’s Church, Oxford Terrace, of Iris May, eldest daughter of Mrs and Mr N. M. H. Black, Eastern Terrace, Beckenham, and Henry Percival Vivian, twin son of Mrs and Mr H. J. Ball, also of Sydenham. The ceremony was performed by the Rev C. A. Perry. Mr C. Stanford played appropriate music. The bride, who vras escorted by her father, wore a frock of ivory silk lace cut on long slender lines to touch the ankles in a hem of tiny georgette frills. The long fitting sleeves fell in a point over the hands. Her veil of embroidered tulle was caught softly to the head with orange blossom, then fell in soft folds to form a train. She carried a sheaf of white flowers intermingled with maidenhair fern. The bride was assisted by her sister, Miss Pearl Black, as chief bridesmaid, with the Misses Freda Rowe and Rona Rowe, Ivy Hamilton, Mavis and Sylvia Shaw, her cousins, also in attendance. Miss Pearl Black and Miss Freda Rowe were in dainty frocks of rose pink and silver tissue. Misses Rona Rowe and Mavis Shaw wore frocks made similarly to those of the Misses Sylvia Shaw and Ivy Hamilton, who were in apricot shaded frocks. All attendants wore circlets of tiny French flowers over their hair and carried sheaves of flowers to tone with their frocks. Little Rene Hamilton, the flower girl, was in deep blue georgette with tiny pink rosebuds in her hair, and she carried a posy of pink flowers. Little Colin Taylor acted as page boy in a deep blue corded velvet suit with ruffled collar and cuffs and sash of white silk. Mr T. Ball, twin brother of the bridegroom, carried out the duties of best man. Mr L. Robinson was groomsman. The guests assembled at the home of the bride’s parents at Eastern Terrace. Mrs Black wore a frock of oyster silk lace and beige georgette with a hat to match and carried a bouquet of mauve flowers. The bridegroom’s mother wore a frock of black satin and lace and a smart hat to match. Scarlet flowers composed her bouquet. The bride travelled later in a frock of deep blue marocain with a hat to match, ■‘and a musquash fur coat. Joyce—Rout. A pretty wedding was solemnised at St Paul’s Church recently, when Constance Francis, second daughter of Mr and Mrs R. H. Rout, Yaldhurst, was married to George James, only son of Mr and Mrs S. Joyce, Woolston. The Rev Bower-Black officiated at the ceremony. The bride, who entered the church on the arm of her brother, Mr W. Rout, wore a charming, long-sleeved gown of ivory moire silk, with an uneven hemline and finished with sprays of orange blossom. Her veil of silk net worn off the forehead was caught at each side with tiny sprays of orange blossom. She carried a shower bouquet of white roses and lily of the valley. The bridesmaids were Miss Gwen Drayton (cousin of the bride) and Miss Edna Collins Miss Drayton wore a frock of primrose floral georgette with a coatee trimmed with knife pleating and a hat to tone Miss Collins’s frock was of pink floral chiffonette with a hat to match. They both carried bouquets to tone with their frocks. The bridegroom was attended by Mr N. Sloan as best man and Mr H. Cumberworth as groomsman. After the ceremony the reception was held at the “ Cadena” Mrs R. H. Rout received the guests wearing a frock of black celanese trimmed with maroon and gold, and a hat and coat to match. She carried a bouquet of red roses and fuchsias. Mrs S. Joyce, the bridegroom’s mother, 'wore a frock of blue wool marocain with a coat and hat to tone, and she carried a bouquet of hothouse flowers. When the bride left for her wedding tour she wore a pretty navy celanese frock and fur-trimmed coat and hat to match. Tole—Clarkson. St Patrick’s Cathedral, Auckland, on Wednesday afternoon was the scene of a picturesque wedding of interest to a wide circle _of friends throughout the Dominion, when Miss Janet Mary __ Clarkson, daughter of Mrs P. S. Crisp and the late George Wensley Clarkson, of Christchurch, was married to Mr George Edmund Tole, third son of Mrs Tole and the late Mr D. A. Tole, of Victoria Avenue, Remuera. The bride’s beautiful gown of ivory taffeta faille was fashioned on modern lines, the fairly tight-fitting bodice being elaborated with sunray motifs of point d’esprit, interlaced with the taffeta, and merging into a bouffant flounce. Enveloping the frock was a long double veil and billowy train of tulle and Limerick lace, the effect striking an unconventional note in arrangement The outer veil, with its rich applique, was exquisitely worked by the bridegroom’s grandmother, the late Mrs Smales, who spent twelve years in weavng the intricate design. It was arched to the hair at the back with a wreathle of orange buds, while a sheaf of Christmas lilies was a fitting bouquet to a beautiful bridal toilette. Miss Anne Clarkson attended her sister as bridesmaid, wearing a chalk white satin chiffon, made on simple lines, with the new short puffed sleeve, and normal narrow waist line. The water-lily green Bangkok hat was trimmed with the same shade of velvet ribbon, and she carried a large shower bouquet of shaded green hydrangeas. The little trainbearer, Stephen Hunt, was in green trousers and white organdie shirt with wide frills. Mr Jack Tole was best man, and Mr P. S. Crisp' gave the bride away. The Rev Father Bradley performed the ceremony, and Miss O’Leary played the wedding music. A reception, confined to relatives, was held after the service at the residence of .the bride’s mother, Eastbourne Road, Remuera, Mrs Crisp receiving her guests in a champagne and ceil blue patterned crepe romaine, with ballibuntl hat to tone. She carried a bouquet of deep red roses. Mrs Tole, the bridegroom’s mother, wore a moonlight blue georgette, blue tagel hat, and carried a shower bouquet of pink carnations. Miss Judith Clarkson, the bride’s sister, wore a white and lettuce green crepe de soie ensemble arid hat to tone. Miss Margaret Tole was in a cigar brown lace frock, and hat to tone The following relations attended: Mr and Mrs Percy Hunt, Mr and Mrs Cyril Mahoney, Mrs J. Tole, Mrs Toner, Misses Smales, Madeline Gussie, Clare Tole, Margaret Tole, B. Miller, Messrs J. C. and .1. Tole, and Mrs Eric Ramsden, a visitor from Sydney, who is a guest of Mr and Mrs Crisp.