WEDDINGS

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20232, 16 February 1934, Page 9

WEDDINGS

Ceremony of Interest to Radio “ Hams.” HUGHES—MULFORD. A wedding of interest to many amateur radio transmitters took place last Monday evening at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Barbadoes Street, when Eileen Josephine, eldest daughter cf Mr and Mrs A. J. Mulford, was married to William, only son of! Mr and Mrs W. Hughes. The bride-, groom, the officiating clergyman, the Rev Father J. Magtuire. and the best man, Mr Ray Andrews, are all keen radio “ hams." The bride had only one attendant, her sister Molly, and she was given away by her father. Wearing her mother’s veil of embroidered silk tulle arranged to her head with a coronet of orange blossom, the I bride carried an all white shower bouquet of begonias, roses and carnations. 1 Her frock of ivory crepe de chine was mounted on satin, and had a vandyked 1 skirt weighted at the hem with two I circular frills. The full upper sleeves were softly ruched at the shoulder and drawn at the elbow into long : pointed cuffs. Her maid was dressed in a dainty frock of pink georgette sprigged with blue flowers, simply made with a frilled bertha collar. Her hat was of pink felt and her bouquet of pinksweet peas and begonias was lightly relieved with blue. Two satin horseshoes were presented to the bride as she left the church, one by Mrs Voller and the other by little Joy Hurley. After the ceremony the bride’s mother received a number of guests at the Cadena Tearooms, Cashel Street, and later at her own home. A shoulder spray of roses and fern was pinned to her frock of navy blue floral celanese. It was cut on diagonal lines, relieved with beige crepe de chine, and worn with a hat to tone. The bridegroom’s mother wore navy; blue marocain patterned in a floral design and a navy hat. For travelling the bride had chosen a frock of blue floral georgette, and a! pale pink straw hat trimmed with blue to match her frock. She carrieda black faced cloth coat with a wallaby collar. COULTHARD—WEIR. The marriage was celebrated at St John’s Anglican Church, Latimer Square, last evening, of Gwendoline Marina Nurse, third daughter of Mr and Mrs C. R. Weir, Peterborough Street, to William Thomas, younger son of Mr and Mrs W. Coulthard, Peacock Street. The Rev J. T. M’William performed the ceremony and Mr Claude Davies was organist. The bride was at. tended by two of her sisters, the Misses Jean and Doris Weir as bridesmaids, and two little flower girls, Norah Delaney, her niece, and Doris Weir, a niece of the bridegroom. Mr Weir gave away his daughter, whose gown of palest pink angel-skin lace was made tight-fitting to the knee and then flared softly to the ground. The bodice was finisned with a little cross-over cape, and a sash of pink velvet tying in a blow at the waist back. A veil of pink tulle formed a train and her flowers were pink sweet peas lightly relieved with mauve. Her four attendants were dressed in dainty frocks of pink organdie, made sheath-like to the knee, with three frills weighting the hems of each fullyflared skirt, and cartwheel frills over the shoulders. The two elder maids also wore big picture hats of the organdie, and carried muffs trimmed with sprays of real flowers, while the two little girls, wore bandeaux of flowers in their hair, and carried little Victorian; posies. Mr George Sheave was best man and Mr Jack Weir, brother of the bride, was groomsman. The bride’s mother received a number of friends and relatives later at the Tudor Tea Rooms, wearing a black marocain frock relieved with a white bow. Her hat was a black and white straw and her bouquet was of vivid red roses. A smart navj'-blue frock and hat of matching straw was worn by the bridegroom’s mother, who carried a bouquet of red and gold carnations. When the bride and bridegroom left later the bride was wearing a navv-blue tailored coat the material having an interesting weave, and a little stitched hat of the same material. The grey frock which accompanied this outfit was patterned in a red and navy conventional design.