WEDDING BELLS

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5964, 27 July 1912, Page 3

WEDDING BELLS

•MPABiA-MCKAY. . A charming little "wedding of considerable local interest was celebrated on .Wednesday last, when Misa Mary jlclvay, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs iiobert McKay,, of Irvine street, was united in the holy bonds oi wedlock to Mr Jaauea McAra, our well-known fellow townsman. The ceremony took place at- tlio residence of the bride'B parents, in the presence of 'quite a goodly number of tlie friends of the bride and bridegroom, the .Rev. 'Mr Scott Allan, -oi Musselburgh, Dunedin, being the oili>intiiig ■minister. The bride looked, very winsome in a gown of creamcoloured silk with pearl trimming. Shia wore the orthodox veil a ud wreath of orange blossom, and carried a pretty shower bouq'uet. She was art-tended by Miss Smyth who wore a picture hut and was becomingly attired in a delicate gown of pale heliotrope. The bridegroom was ai.lv supported by Mr John Roughan as best man. The bridegroom's gift to the bride was a silver mounted hand bag and purse and to the bridesmaid a gold brooch. The bride's gilt to Ihe bridegroom was a . silver mounted umbrella.

After the celebration oi the wedding ceremonv the ifuests sat down to a daintv wedding breakfast, when the toasts incidental to such an occasion were duly honoured. The bride's travelling costume was of Davy blue cloth prettily trimmed. The Presents were numerous and valuable and afforded testimony of the popularity of tho newly wwldo'.l couple who left by motor car during the afternoon for Dunedin.

MUBUAY-ItcKENZU?. (Waitahuna Correspondent.) The marriage of Mr E.. Murray mid Miss Jean M. MoKcnzie was relebrated at tho house of Mr W. McKen/.ie brother of the 'bride, on Monday, 15th July., in the presence only of a few intimate friends atid neighbours. The fiev. J. S. .I'onder oihciated and the wholo uroecedings were marked to a very high degree with warmth and cordiality. Vk I'onder in proposing the health of the ,-voung couple said that since, ho had Ijeen in Waitahuna. he had had the pleasure of wishing a good many all good things in their married life, and he had always baen able to do so from the heart, but on this occasion he felt a special pleasure *uch as he had not felt before inasmuch as thoibride had been so closely connected with the Church and Church lif e and work and tho bridegroom also was a member of the choir. Mr I'atrick and Mr McCaw also spofei on behalf of themselves and those present whoso hearts were too full for \vc rds to express. They were, all sure that having waited for each other so long and so patiently the exercise oi that graoe would work out such other Christian virtues in the young couple *s to secure fcr them a great store of lasting blessing. The toast was drunk with' great enthusiasm and the bridegroom very fittingly replied, thanking his good friends for their good wishes. The health of the •nridesmaid having been proposed and very, cordially drunk, Air Adam McC'orKiiulale. who acted as 'best man, very neatly replied. The bridegroom's mother (Mrs Murray! also reoeived <!i:e attention, and Mr Mclvenzie, who gave the bride away and who was the , representative of her mother, so lately gone from us, and whose memory would be revered for a long umo, also received duo honours in a very feeling manner. The bride was dressed very neatly in a becoming grev costume relieved with black, with hat to match trimmed 'with ostrich plumes. Miss Patrick, who acted as bi'idesanaid, were a very pretty grev dross with silk trimimngs of a darker shade, and hat to match. The bridegroom's present to the bride was a gold butterfly brooch, and the present of ilie bride to tho bridegroom a gold pendant, while the bridegroom's present to tho 'bridesmaid was a gold icrescent brooch set in sapphires. A large and varied stock of wrddin ; gifts of a most, valuable and substantial nature were received by the brido included also was a considerable amount of gold coin. Telegrams to' congratulation were received from friends north, south, east, and west), and the happy couple left amidst them all and under copious showers of those things that people throw for luck by motor car for Milton e n route for Cbristehurch where the honeymoon is to be spent.