WEDDING.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18431, 15 March 1922, Page 9

WEDDING.

DAVIES—BUTLER. A quiet, but pretty wedding was solemnised at Christ Church, Wanganui by the, Ven. Archdeacon Reeve, on Tuesday, February 21st, when Miss Alice Maud Hasel Butler, youngest daughter ot Nurse A. E. Butler and the late Edwin Butler, ot Wanganui, was married to Mr Louis Roy Davies, only son of Mr and Mrs W. R. Davies,,of Stratford. The bride, who was given away by her mother, looked charming in a gown of white satin, draped with panels of silver la'ce. Her veil was prettily surmounted by a band of silver leaves, with a spray of orange blossoms on either side. The 'train was lined with pale pink georgette and caught at the shoulders with silver roses. She carried a shower bouquet of white lilies, roses and maidenhair fern, fastened with long white tulle streamers. Miss Zora Nicholson, niece o£ the bridegroom, and Miss Phyllis Hall Taylor acted as train bearers. They were prettily dressed in cream net frocks, witlf lemon tulle sashes, and wore lace caps. They carried .lemon coloured crooks with large The bride was attended by her cousin, Miss A. Danville, who wore a dainty frock of royal blue charmeuse with an overdress of lace, and royal ' " hat to match. She carried a bouquet of brown tiger lilies fastened with golden brown tulle streamers'. The bride’s mother was attired in a gown of mole eolienne and wore a violet toque. She carried a bouquet of asters. The duties of best man were capably carried out by Mr Bert Totty and those of groomsman by Mr L. Masters. The bridal party left the church to the strains, of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. After the ceremony a reception was held at “Broughshane.” the residence of the bride’s mother.. The bridal couple stood Under a wedding bell made of white lilies to receive the congratulations of their friends. During the wedding breaikfast the usual toasts were honoured, after which the happy couple left by motor for a tour of the East Coast. The bride’s travelling costume i was fawn cloth and her hat was the same shade, surmounted with a saxe blue uncurled feather. The bride’s present to the- bridegroom was a beautiful set of military brushes in case, and the bridegroom’s present to the bride a gold expanding wristlet watch. The bridegroom’s present to the bridesmaid was a pearl ring and to the maids of honour, gold brooches. The presents were both numerous and costly.