BULLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20105, 26 March 1928, Page 3

BULLS

WEDDINGS BONE—MUMFORD [ Special “ Chronicle ” Service I A very pretty wedding was solemnised in St. Andrew’s Church, Bulls, on Thursday, the contracting parties being Grace Ruth, third daughter of Air and Airs G. W. Mumford, Gatton Park, Surrey, England, and Sidney John, youngest son of Air and Airs J. W. Bone, Adcnham, Hertfordshire, England. The Rev. H. E. Jones, ALA., was the officiating minister. The service was a choral one, Airs Jones presiding at the organ.

The bride, who was given away by her brother, Air G. W. Alumford, was frocked in ivory charmantc, trimmed with pearls and ivory georgette and lace panels completed with a veil and orange blossoms. She carried a bouquet of white carnations, begonias, asters, and roses, with maidenhair fern, and was attended by two small nieces, Eileen and Aluriel Alumford, who were dressed in maize and pale blue respectively, with vandyke frills and tulle caps with wreaths of for-get-mc-nots, and by a tiny nephew, Neville Alumford, who was dressed in a pale blue smock suit. The attendants carried blue and white posies. The bridegroom was attended by Mr J. Danger, of England. The bride’s travelling dress was of air force blue charmalaine ensemble suit with a hat of panne velvet to tone.

A reception was afterwards held at the house of the bride’s-brother, where the couple, received numerous presents. VILE—THOMPSON The Methodist Church, Rongotea, wag the scene of a very pretty wedding when Alavis, tht only daughter of Air and Airs Howard Thompson, of Rongotca, was married to Kenneth, youngest son of Air and Airs C. E. Vile, of Bulls. The Rev. W. S. Neal conducted the service. The bride, who entered the church on the arm of her father was attired in a frock of cream silk georgette trimmed with cream, hand-made, georgette flowers, with a dainty posy resting on her left shoulder and silver shoes to tone. She wore a veil of cream silk net with a coronet of orange blossoms, and she carried a gorgeous bouquet of white everlasting sweetpeas, roses and asters, blended with maidenhair fern and held together with a white satin ribbon. She was attended by two bridesmaids and two flower-girls. Miss Rhea Masters, chief bridesmaid, was dressed in azure blue radio, in mid-Victorian style, with a cream net yoke and hem scalloped and appliqued with flowers to tone. Her hat was of stitched azure blue taffeta, turned up from the face and held with a diamente pin. She wore silver shoes and carried a lovely bouquet. Aliss Dorothy Vile, the bridegroom’s sister, wore apricot crepe-de-chine in mid-Victorian style, with a cream net yoke and hem scalloped and appliqued with flowers to match. Her hat was of apricot stitched taffeta, with a diamente pin. Her bouquet and shoes were to tone. The bride’s mother wore a frock of navy crepe margaret with draped skirt an» relieved with cream guipure lace. Her toilet was completed with a navy satin hat with an artistic spray of carnation red felt flowers and a bouquet of flame zinnias and scarlet gum, mingled with maiden hair fern. The flower-girls, Audrey Tostevin and Ngaire Waghorn, were dressed alike in lilac crcpe-de-chino petalled frocks and wore cream kid shoes and socks to match, and carried silver baskets with tulle streamers and flowers to tone. The bridegroom’s mother wore a becoming frock of black crepe margaret, a frilled skirt, and trimmed with floral georgette of belladonna lilies and asparagus fern to tone. The bridegroon’s present to the bride was a beautiful grey Alongolian fur; to the bridesmaids silver vases, and to tlie flower girls a gold bangle and a silver-topped scent bottle respectively. One of the flower-girls, Ngaire Waghorn, presented the bride with a dainty silver horse-shoe.

Air Dudley Thompson was best man, and Air Terry Hight, of Hororata, Christchurch, was groomsman. The church was decorated with white paper bells in groups of three, presenting a very pretty effect, and lupin blue, apricot, heliotrope and white streamers were arranged around the church by Airs C. Alasters. Afiss Nola White presided at the organ. The reception took place at the Coronation Hall, lOO guests sat down to wedding breakfast. The hall was artistically decorated by Airs Al. H. White, who had arranged streamers and paper flowers of various hues around the room. In the evening, the festivities con-