WEDDING BELLS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2578, 29 July 1922, Page 6

WEDDING BELLS

MONTAGUE—CURRAN

A wedding in which the parties concerned are well-known to Cambridge district residents was celebrated at Wanganui recently, and we reprint below extracts from a report in a Wanganui exchange:—

Exceptional interest was displayed by the public on Wednesday in the marriage, at St. Mary’s Church, Wanganui, of Miss Ruby Kathleen Curran, the popular and talented pianist and only daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Curran, of Wanganui, and Mr John Thomas Montague, of Mataraatn. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father Outrun in the presence of one of the largest congregations seen in the church. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked sweetly pretty in her exquisite gown of ivory mousseline eharmeuse. It was a beautiful gown, artistically embroidered and finished with silver lace. The dress had a court train, also beautifully embroidered. She also wore the orthodox veil and coronet of tulle, finished with strings of pearls. The veil was the gift of the Sisters of St. Joseph. The bride carried a bouquet of white flowers. Attending the bride wore two maids of honour, Miss Ivy Stitt and Miss Hannah Montague, sister of the bridegroom, and two little train bearers, the Misses Mary and Selby Morton. These were frocked in pairs, eau-de-nil and lavender eharnieuse with silver -drapings, and all four wore tulle caps and veils, and carried bouquets of violets, irises and fern. Messrs Frank Montague and Denis Montague, brothers of the bridegroom, were best man and groomsman respectively. The Rev. Father Outrun officiated. Mr Bickerton played the '‘Wedding March.”

All the speech-making at the reception was informal, impromptu and : brief, everyone finding a neat little way of expressing the general esteem in which Mrs Montague is neld. Truly, as Rubio Curran, she was most generous with her musical talent. Good musicians are rare, and at times they do not give of their best as freely and as kindly as the little bride of yesterday has always done. Mr Fitzgerald (Matfunnta), uncle of the bride and a close friend of the Montague family, in a jolly little speech, took up the cudgels in justification, so to speak, of the bridegroom, whom he had known since boyhood, but who is a stranger to this district, arid everyone just rippled with merriment. Late in the afternoon Mr and Mrs Montague left by motor, starting out on an extended trip to the South., The bride travelled in a buff brushed wool coat and skirt, blue feather toque, and handsome fur wrap. Good wishes accompany them to their home at. Matamata, and the wonderful array of valuable presents will take some packing. There arc gifts from every section of the community, including a number of substantial cheques.