WEDDINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 283, 3 December 1935, Page 2

WEDDINGS

PARSONS—NOLAN A wedding of interest to a wide ciicle of friends throughout the Dominion was celebrated at St. Ma'k’s Church, Kemuera, Auckland, on Friday evening, when Miss Dorothy Leomc Nolan, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs, V. H. Nolan, of Cambridge, was married to Mr. lan David Parsons, elder son of Mrs. B. Parsons and the late Mr. Parsons, of Waitotara. The Rev. P. Houghton officiated and Mr. J. Pascoe played the wedding music. The cihurch was simply decorated with white flowers and a white aud soft pink wedding bell. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a beautiful gown of cloth of silver, fashioned on classical lines with the long oval train lined with ivory taffeta. Her billowy veii of ivory tulle, which tell gracefully to form a secoud train, was arranged with a headdress of braided cloth of silver. She wore a bracelet of natural orange blossom, and carried a sheaf of St. Joffeph lilies. •In attendance as bridesmaids were Miss Audrey Nolan, sister of the bride, and Miss Jean Parsons, sister of the bridegroom. Their frocks were of cameo pink suede, with the bodices cut with a soft cowl draping lined with cloth of silver. The skirts were diagonally tucked and slightly trained. They wore coronets of pink roses and long pink suede groves, and they carried trailing bouquets of pink roses which fell to the hem of their frocks. The bridegroom was attended by Mr. William Bennett as best man and by Mr. Norman Parsons as groomsman. Following the ceremony a reception was held at the Grand Hotel, where the rooms were decorated with lovely roses, Madonna lilies and summer foliage. Mrs. Nolan received her guests in a graceful gown of golden brown lace over old gold georgette, worn with a short fur cape and a brown hat. She carried a bouquet of pansies in gold and brown tonings. Mrs. Parsons, the mother of the bridegroom, was gowned in beige lace, with a lace coatee trimmed with summer fur, and a brown ballibuntal straw hat. Her bouquet was of tree tulips and foliage. Lady Nolan, of Wellington, grandmother of the bride, wore a black georgette frock and a black hat. She carried a bouquet of shaded roses. Mrs. S. Parsons, of Palmerston North, aunt of the bridegroom, was in a black lace and

georgette frock with an ermine stole and a black picture hat. Miss D. Nolan, of Wellington, aunt of the bride, wore a black georgette frock and a black and white hat. The bride travelled in an ensemble of powder blue candle-wick crepe with a long navy crepe crate and a navy Breton straw hat. JOBLIN—M ’ ALLUM Groupings of summer blossoms in pink and cream tonings made a charming setting at'St. Andrew’s Church, Inglewood, on Wednesday evening, November' 27, when the marriage was celebrated of Enid Vaughan, youngest daughter of Mrs. H. V. M’Allum and the late Dr. M’Allum, Inglewood, to Mr. Hector Kenneth Joblin, of Taihape. The wedding service, which was fully choral, was performed by the Rev. Boyd-Bell and the bridal party entered the church as “The Voice that Breathed o'er Eden” was being sung. Coming up the aisle they passed under an arch of roses, and at the altar stops were pink rhododendrons and cream lilies, the altar’ being massed with pink roses and azaleas, and posies of pale pink luculia, tied with cream streamers, marked the pews where the guests were seated. Satin in a new shade— honey bionde, which has a deep creamy tone in its gleaming folds—designed the lovely period wedding gown of the bride, who was escorted by Mr. Justin Aylmer ot Wanganui. The gown was distinguished by its off-the-shoulder decolletage which was edged with a band of soft fur in bhe same shade as the frock, and the skirt was simply designed to fall in soft folds with an unusual hemline of quilting in keeping with the style chosen. A band of quilting also edged the graceful oval train of satin, which was trimmed with small