£30,000 WEDDING.
Polo Player and Woolwortb Heiress. ARTIFICIAL TROPIC SETTING. NEW YORK. June 22. Before an antique Grecian temple in a palm grove specially imported from Florida, another Woolworth heiress was married. The bridegroom was Mr Winston Guest, the famous polo player, grandson of the millionaire, Henry Phipps (one of the pioneers of the old Carnegie Steel Company) and elder son of Captain the Hon F. E. Guest, M.P. The bride was Helena M’Cann, granddaughter of the founder of the famous chain of stores, and a cousin of Barbara Hutton, now Princess Midivani. The wedding i« estimated to have cost £30,000, and was a most lavish ceremony. It took place in the gardens of “ Sunken Orchard," the M’Cann estate at Oyster Bay, a seaside town near New York, famous as the restingplace of the late President Roosevelt.
A grove of coconut palms, brought by special train from the Palm Beach estate of the bride’s mother, shaded the guests from the ra}*s of the scorching sun, while tall standards of hothouse flowers, linked by white ribbon, marked the pathway through which the bridal party paraded to an open space, where, standing in front of a white marble temple, the couple were married.
Music from the enormous organ which is one of the features of the M’Cann mansion reached the ears of the guests through amplifiers concealed in flowering shrubs. After the ceremony, the bride and bridegroom led the procession from the temple to the strains of the “ Midsummer Night’s Dream," back through a French garden of heliotrope and rose begonias to a rose-enclosed setting beside a pool on which floated white and pink water lilies.
There, with their respective fathers and mothers; they received more than 1000 guests. Dancing followed later on the indoor tennis court. The honeymoon will be spent abroad. Jt was to gratify a sentimental wish of tlie bride that the MVanns spent a small fortune to reprocl'Te faithfully a tropical palm beach setting, such* as that in which the romance, which culminated in the marriage, began The work was so skilfully done that the bridal pair might have just stepped out from the verandah of the famous Poinciana Hotel, Palm Beach, a fashionable rendezvous for tej dan ting
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 24 July 1934, Page 12
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371£30,000 WEDDING. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 24 July 1934, Page 12
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