WEDDINGS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9112, 11 June 1908, Page 5

WEDDINGS.

(From Our Carterton corespondent.) FLEURY-BROWN. Another wedding in which great intsrest was taken took place yesterday in St. Mark's Church, Carterton, when the Rev. R. Young, vicar, united r'ranquefort E. Fleury, of Ekctahuna, second son of the Rev. Louis R. Fleury, M.A., Rector of Kilworth, County Cork, Ireland, to Gladys H. Brown, youngest daughter of Mr James Brown, J.P., of Fair View, Belvedere, formerly Mayor of Carterton, and one of Wairarapa's best-known and esteemed settlers. There was a congregagtion in the church, and the service was fully choral, the wedding march being also played by Mr H. Wakelin. The bride was attired in white silk trimmed with Maltese lace with veil and orange blossoms. She carried a beautiful shower bouquet, and looked exceedingly pretty. She was attended by two little nieces as bridesmaids, Dora Taylor and Gwen Major, who were dressed in white silk frocks, red shoes and socks, with picture hats, and each carried a bouquet of holly berries, with red streamers, Mr Raymond Smith, of Pahiatua, performed the duties of best man, and the bride was given away by her father. The bridegroom's present to the bride was a gold chain with pendant set with pearls and rubied, and to the little bridesmaids pretty gold and noarl 'orcoches. After the ceremony t:iu bridal party drove to Fair View, wh.re the wedding breake'ast was enjoyed with the usual pleasant toasts. Mr and Mrs Fleury left by the mail train for the south, where the honeymoon is to be spent.

RICHARDS-FAIRBKOTHER. A very pretty wedding was so.lemnised at the Catholic Church, Carterton, yesterday afternoon, when Mr Hugh Richards, sixth son of Mr E. S. Richards, of Masterton, was married to Miss May Fairbrother, eldest daughter of Mr R. Fairbrother, of Carterton, the Rev. Father Bowe being the officiating clergyman. Mr Hector Fairbrother acted as best man, and Mr Cyril Fairbrother as groomsman. Miss Minnie Fairjbrother (sister of the bride) and Miss Elsie Richards (neice of the bridegroom) were bridesmaids. The bride's dress was white silk, trimmed with handsome Irish crochet, and she wore the orthodox veil and orange blossom, and carried a very handsome shower bouquet. The bridesmaids' dresses were made of Bishop's lawn, trimmed with vieux rose brutelles and belt, and they wore wine-coloured hats, trimmed with autumn leaves and roses. Miss C. Berrill played the Wedding March on the organ. The e.nircli was very handsomely decorated by a number of lady friends. A large number of lelauons and friends sac down to the weoding breakfast at tue residence'of the bride's parents, when the usual toasts were honoured. Tne presents were very numerous and costly, and included several cheques. The bridegroom's present t') the bride was a silver-jewe'. case, and to the bridesmaids a gold brooch and pendants. Mr and Mrs Richards left for Featherston, en route for Wellington, where the honeymoon is to be spent.