NO MUSIC FOR WEDDING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 371, 15 September 1930, Page 8

NO MUSIC FOR WEDDING

UNUSUAL ABBEY CEREMONY CHOIR OF MALE VOICES The quietest wedding Westminster Abbey has ever seen was that of Lady Katharine Hamilton, the Queen’s youngest Lady-in-Waiting, who was married in the Henry VII. Chapel there last month to Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Seymour, Equerry to the King. Lady Katharine is 30 years of age. So anxious was the bride to avoid the crowds who usually gather at important weddings that she even kept secret the time of the ceremony. As eleven o’clock was striking from Big Ben a large car drove through the gates before the entrance to the Poets’ Corner and drew up so close to the door that Lady Katharine had only one step to take into the Abbey. With her father, the Duke of Abercorn, she walked to the altar of the banner-hung chapel, decorated for the occasion with tail sheaves of flame gladioli. No bridesmaids or attendants followed the bride, who wore an ankle-length gown of ivory satin with a square bodice, a full skirt, long sleeves and a medium-length train. Her veil was of Brussels lace edged with orange blossom and she carried lilies tied with a blue bow-

Some 150 guests were present by invitation, and four clergymen, headed by the Primate of All Ireland (Mo; I Rev. Dr D’Arcy), officiated. The service was brief and simple. There was no organ music, but an augmented choir of male voices sang the 160th hymn, “Holy, Holy,” and psalm Ixvii. There was no formal reception after the wedding, the bride and bridegroom returning to the bride’s home for luncheon- Later, they motored off for a honeymoon tour of the country.