WEDDING BELLS

Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2270, 19 February 1929, Page 4

WEDDING BELLS

JOBSON—CLARKE

St. Matthew's Church, Auckland, was beautifully decorated in pink tiger and belladonna lilies, asters, and feathery tamarisk for the wedding last Friday evening of Mona Kathleen Marie, eldest daughter of Mrs Clarke and the late Rev. F. W. Clarke, of Hamilton (and formerly of Te Awamutu), and Lawrence McGregor, second son of Mr and Mrs W. Jobson, of Hawera. Canon Grant Cowen officiated. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr Erie Clarke, and wore a gown (of pink satin, fashioned in early Victorian style. The bodice was tight-fitting, and the skirt entirely covered with flowers of pink tulle, drooping at each side to form an uneven hem to the ankles. The beautiful pink embroidered tulle veil was mounted on pink chiffon, and caught iat each side by a spray of orange blossom. The bride carried a bouquet of pink cactus dahlias and roses. The bridesmaids were Miss Viva Clarke (sister of the bride) and Miss Dons Grant Cowen. The group produced a very attractive effect, theflr frocks being a shade deeper than the bride's gown, the dainty little flower girl being in a paler tone. Their dresses were alike in style, and of chiffon taffeta, with a transparent net hem from the knees to the ankles, and narrow black velvet ribbons knotted on the fronts of the bodice. Tulle bandeaux matched their gowns, and they carried long ebony staffs, with pink roses, and dahlias and tulle streamers. Sparkling rhinestone necklets were worn, the gift of the bridegroom. Dainty little Pat Webb's frock was of ankle-length frilled satin, with posies of rosebuds, the tulle transparent bonnet being in Kate Greenaway style; the little maid carried a tight posy of pink and mauve flowers. Master Derek Clarke, the small page boy, was also in a soft shade of pink satin, with lace frills, and he carried a black crook, with shades of pink blooms. MiHarold Lewis was best man and MiBertram Dewing groomsman.

BEAUMONT—SMITH. The Presbyterian Church at Kihikihi was the scene of a Very pretty and popular wedding on Monday afternoon, when Miss Clara Elvina Sparks Smith, daughter of Mr and Mrs Smith, Tauranga, was married to Mr Percy Beaumont (Tauranga), eldest son of Mrs Beaumont, Hamilton. The officiating clergyman was Mr F. Smith, brother of the bride, and Mr H. Shaw gave the bride away. In attendance as bridesmaid was Miss Edna Keam, of Tauranga, with little Miss Dorothy Smith (niece of the bride) as flower girl, and Mr Rupert Beaumont (the bridegroom's brother) as best man. The bride looked particularly winsome in a daintilyfashioned gown of powder blue rayon silk, with the customary veil and orange blossoms, and she carried a sheaf of arum lilies. The bridesmaid's dress was also of rayon silk, in a pale mauve shade, and she carried a prettily toned bouquet of pink and mauve asters. The flower girl's frock was of pale pink crepe de chine, and roses and maidenhair fern predominated in her flower basket. The happy couple left the church amid showers of rice and confetti from the assembled well-wishers, and later in the clay, after a sumptuous wedding breakfast, they left on their honeymoon. Mr and Mrs Beaumont will make their future home in the Tauranga district.