PICTURESQUE WEDDING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 147, 24 June 1930, Page 8

PICTURESQUE WEDDING

BABY BRIDESMAID WALKS OUT GREAT TREAT FOR THE CROWD i Lady Millicent Talour, the tall, fairhaired only daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort, was the central figure in a picturesque Roman Catholic wedding ceremony which drew hundreds of people to Westminster Cathedral recently. Friends of the bride’s family and of Mr Henry F. Tiarks, the bridegroom, filled the huge nave, and in the aisles and at the back of the building people stood packed shoulder to shoulder. The ceremony lasted more than an hour. In the road big crowds were kept in bounds by a special contingent of police. A small army of ushers, headed by the Earl of Bective, the bride’s brother, was needed to take the guests to their places The earliest guests were there an hour before the ceremony. The bride passed under an archway of tall palms in the cathedral —a picture of youthful, fresh beauty in her robes of parchment satin, draped with exquisite lacc, and veiled with tulle. Her halo head-dress was of orangeblossom buds mingled with tiny white flowers, and there was the merest suggestion of bridal blue here and there among the petals. .A magnificent sheaf of Madonna lilies was placed in her hands in the porch, and she carri 1 it in the crook of her left arm. Two tiny boys in long green trousers of Irish linen and cream crepe de chine blouses walked jr.st behind the bride, followed by a group of little girls in long velvet dresses of the same parchment hue as the bridal satin. One of the little girls, aged only three gave the crowd outside a great treat while it was waiting to see the bride and bride-groom leave. She grew tired of the long service and made her way to the porch.’ She tripped down the steps to the pavement, smiled at the army of photographers, and taking a hand of each of two commissionaires, posed for the battery of cameras without a trace of shyness. The crowd cheered this little bridesmaid and she waved to them in response She was anything but pleased when taken back to her duties by her mother. The wedding service was impressive as well as picturesque and included an address by Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of who imparted a blessing sent specially by the Pope.